351 HOW MIGHT ONE VOICE REALISTICALLY PROMOTE GLOBAL PEACE ?

When illness threatens good health

Our immune systems leap into action

As if Johnny-on-the-spot flipped a switch

Our brains are preprogrammed to react

With autonomic reactions before we ever see the light of day

So, this switch, which ignites healing, flips on automatically

Our emotional defense systems are preprogrammed

To react autonomically, as well ...

However, tis wise to keep this difference in mind:

Emotional defenses are programmed

To pick up steam as fast as two run-away-trains

With faulty brakes may switch tracks and crash, head on

As emotional reactions run toward losing control

We tend to 'fight for our rights'
Until lucid thoughts get tied into knots, so ...

Common sense gets sacked
Wisdom gets tossed onto the tracks
And we feel run over by a tons of trouble!

Once negative focus darkens mental connections
Our aim at resolving conflicts, peaceably

Veers off track under the weight of excess baggage—and

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Here we go again:
Run-away trains, crashing head on, non stop!

If fighting and crashing prove to be classic human behaviors

Then, just as we encourage loved ones to get flu shots

In hopes of strengthening immunity to illness, which may prove fatal ...

Common sense suggests
My taking a shot at injecting family and friends with stories
Aimed at inspiring young and old to reprogram our brains

In hopes of stopping
Run-away trains
From inciting good folks to riot

During head on collisions, few can see how often tunnel vision

Undermines the good health of vital relationships

And thus do lovers and friendships suffer fatalities, unnecessarily

As you read true stories, which describe trains of thought

Which helped me to calm my own autonomic emotional reactions

Perhaps your desire to adopt self-soothing responses may develop, as well ... or

We can blow our own horns and butt heads like bulls

We can kick each other in the butt or kick up like mules

We can allow negative attitudes to shoot each other down ... or

We can consciously choose to make better use of our brains

By soaking up positive trains of thought

And astute listening skills

Which open our minds to considerations

That inspire both sides to take a shot

At healing injured relationships, all around

If asked how positively focused trains of thought

Manage to expand narrow mind sets that define

'Right from wrong', I'd reply:

As positive focus chugs along

Tunnel vision expands, and

As tunnel vision expands, darkness sees the light

As dark mindedness brightens up, guess what happens next?

 Hidden pockets of subconscious fear turn inside out
Baggage is revealed, and low and behold, deeper truths clarify, at last!

As new trains of thought clarify deeper truths

Idealistic tendencies switch tracks

And realistic bigger pictures entice disillusioned frowns to turn around

Each time you watch a train of thought
Transform one of my disillusioned frowns

Into positively focused smile

You may come to see why
I've come to believe that by exposing my personal experiences
Positive change may be catalyzed in mind after mind

And thus, as the focus of my blog aims to spawn optimism

I'll continue to entice you, from time to time, to encourage

Friends, family and lovers to absorb insights, as contagious as these:

Together, we can carve out a path aimed at soothing the savage beast within

Together, we can tame reactions, which whip up winds of emotional wrath

Together, peace loving people may stop engaging in subconscious wars for control

Together, we'll adventure through true stories that carve out peaceful pathways
Toward negotiating mutual respect, and in this way do I hope
To inject shots of clarity and inner peace into home after home

As you 'hear' my voice replace idealistic disillusionment with optimistic realism
You'll watch bonds of trust strengthen, between friends, family, lovers
And these same bonds of trust can strengthen ties amongst nations as never before

Most importantly, I aim to encourage you to see that the power of one

Can not inspire family and friends to walk the path of healing—until

Insight empowers each person to carve out that path for oneself

And thus, as the new year unfolds
I'll aim to show you ...
Story by story ...

How one volatile situation fired off another
Until one day I went to the park, opened my mouth
And was surprised to see the sadness in my heart spill out

You see, as a young woman
I opened my heart
To the ear of a friend

And after she listened to what I had need to say,

Her reply inspired me to open my mind
And soak in her suggestion, which changed my entire view of life

Thus, by opening up honestly and listening intently

I came to recognize symptoms of disillusionment
Which had caused the strength of my spirt to sag

Once my friend's train of thought opened my mind

I came to see how idealism had blinded me to realism

And at that point, I began to forge a path, which left La La Land behind

With time, instead of fooling myself, I learned to feed myself

Chicken soup for the mind, spirit and soul

And, much to my surprise ...

Negatively focused attitudes
Began to pop out of
hidden pockets in my mind

As clarity offered me reason to see where pockets of negativity

Had been playing cat and mouse with my sense of self trust

Hurdles, which had caused me to fall short of achieving heartfelt goals, vaporized

From then on, I've chosen to engage positive focus as my guide

And as my mind began to engineer trains of thoughts
Which forbade negativity to crack the foundation of my self-healing track

I've entertained self empowering
(not to be confused with self delusional)
Trains of thought, such these:

A woman, who's chosen to carve out a positively focused path

May spark the concept of inner peace
To fire up on a global scale

Hearts pumping positive focus
Less likely to send sons and daughters off to wage war
More likely to nurture peace-loving children

As that train of thought makes sense, here comes the next:

As a woman whose heart pumps positively, tirelessly

At promoting family education both personally and professionally ...

Perhaps my voice may serve

As a spark

Which ignites a movement aimed at peace on a global scale

And if today's train of thought inspires you to ask:

Well, Annie, what specific goals do you plan to accomplish

As the New Year unfolds?

I'd answer quite simply:

 Let's let history speak for itself ...

Meaning that as we walk past the old

And step toward the new

I plan to employ positive attitudes as guides

I plan to nurture open minds

I plan to continue to muster the patience
To see what a good humored spirit

With stories to tell
May spark, world wide

As the future unfolds ... minute by minute, day after day

Thought by thought, post by post, little by little
Two steps forward one back ... all the while ...
Encouraging others to hook up with me, on line

I mean, really, you can't think I'd aspire

To pulling the entire bell shaped curve of humanity

Across the time line, all by myself—right?

In truth, I'll keep writing post after post

In hopes of enticing you to inspire others

To push and pull that bell shaped curve, along side of us both!

Wishing you a safe, sober, and thus secure

Happy-sneeze-less-flu-less-but-not-clue-less-New Year's Eve ...

JYour optimisitc friend, Annie