Practicing Mind, The by Sterner Thomas

Author:Sterner, Thomas [Sterner, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mountain Sage Publishing
Published: 2010-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

All the patience you will ever need is already within you.

Perception Change Creates Patience!

My mother, who passed on from cancer a number of years ago, expressed to me an observation she had made about herself as she sorted out both her illness and her situation in her mind. It is worth passing on here. During the time she was dealing with her illness, she was reading through some books that served to both comfort her and to make her more aware of her spiritual nature. This daily routine gave her a soothing perspective during what was surely a difficult time. Though she tried to keep up with this routine, there were times, for whatever reason, when she would drift away from both the reading and thinking about what she had read. She told me one day that when she kept up with her effort, her whole thought process was elevated and more evolved. She felt different about herself and life, and she had more clarity and perspective about her situation. But she also noticed that when she drifted away from her reading and fell into an, “I don’t have time or don’t feel like it today” frame of mind, she would feel herself slip back into an attitude and perspective that she felt was not only unproductive, but unfortunately very prevalent in the world today. Speaking about what she was reading, she said, “You need to keep reviewing these ideas so that you can hang on to the clarity and perspective. Otherwise, life steals it away.”

I took something from that when I was writing this book. There are not that many ideas in this book - just a few, and they have always been there for us to discover. But they slip away from us in our daily lives so easily. They need to be reviewed over and over again from different angles so that they become a natural part of us. We are practicing learning them right now.

Sometimes when I read a book, I can’t read it straight through because of my schedule. Instead, I may read two chapters today and another one three days from now. I have noticed that when this happens, I often can’t remember points that were made earlier in the book which, when I read them, I felt were very valuable. I wanted this to be a book that you could pick up at any time and open to any page, start reading, and remember those few ideas without much effort and without the need to flip back through pages to find them. I wanted you to realize that we keep coming back to the same few solutions to all the problems we feel we have, and begin to realize that life isn’t as complicated as we had thought. Changing our experience of life is well within our grasp, but we have to review a few ideas again and again so that everyday life doesn’t steal them away before they become a natural part of who we are and how we operate.

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