The human mind is extremely curious for good reason
The human mind is also exceptionally impressionable
Being curious works well for us at every stage of life
Why? Because curiosity opens our minds in expansive ways
On the other hand …
Impressionability can bring stiff consequences at every stage of life
Why? Because impressionability opens us
To believe that which is not true
Whereas being curious is childlike in that it leads toward growth
Being impressionable may be childish if your mind
Absorbs belief unquestionably—as mine once did
If we consider balance in all things then common sense suggests
That impressionability and curiosity would be wise to hold hands …
Do you realize how often I ask the question 'why' while I write?
Do you realize how often I ask myself to reconsider why
My feelings lock horns with my thoughts—born of
A belief system that I'd been taught to uphold during youth?
Do you realize how often our belief systems crash head on with intuition?
Do you have any clue as to when a belief is squashing an
Opportunity that intuition has brought to our attention, repeatedly?
When I feel damned if I do and damned if I don't
I ask why Mother Nature continues to knock at my door
With this particular conundrum in hand?
Is she goading me with what I believe I can't have or
Is she hoping to rouse insight into
Limitations I unknowingly place on my sense of right and wrong?
Though I knew that no one was harder on me than me
Though I knew that no one sold me as short as I'd sold myself
It was not until recently that I was offered reason
To re-evaluate an inherited belief system which had
Caged my appreciation of singing out loud with the same
Joyful openness that I'd expressed freely as a child
So, how, you may ask has my belief system changed, today?
Well, at this late stage of my life
I listen more readily to intuition, which
Repeatedly whispers that
As long as I look both ways and rein in greediness
It's healthy to question my belief system for this reason:
Each time I feel the need to question my belief system by
Spending time in reflection, common sense pops up, offering
Me deeper insight into life, love and personal need, and
As time spent in reflection distinguishes deserved guilt
From undeserved guilt with which I flog myself
My ability to swim through layers of emotional confusion
Lightens up, and once I discover where
I need to lighten up on myself
I gain clarity into what it means to truly think for myself
Then, given time to think ever more clearly, guess what results?
Negatively focused fear, which had caged my spirit
Thus narrowing my horizons
Undergoes positively-focused-change-for-the-better in that, over time
Metamorphosis takes place inside my mind, which
Expands as as naturally as
Butterflies ultimately fly free of their restricting cocoons
And once the narrow boundaries of my comfort zones expand
My spirit feels free to delight in pure joy by
Following intuition's instructional guide, which increases my wing span
At least enough to fly over fear's emotional traffic jams in order that
I can fully enjoy every golden opportunity that
Life offers me on both sides of the street
BTW: If you thought I had any clue of awakening at 4:58 am
To pen this train of thought … well my friends, please think again :)
You see, I wrote the title of today's post, last night …
Suggesting that I'd planned to address the reason why I ended up
Flying to the coast on my own …
Then, after saving that title, most of me went to sleep—except for
My subconscious, which keeps secrets from my conscious mind
And at this point in today's post, it's come clear that
My subconscious must have spent much of the night whispering
Today's entire train of thought into intuition's ear for this reason:
My subconscious trusts intuition to awaken my conscious mind to
Deeper truth that speaks to me, seemingly
Out of the blue in the wee hours when
I find myself awakening with the compelling need to
Take my mini iPad off the night stand in order to
Illuminate yet another change for the better taking place
Inside my mind before the sun rises and thus
While sunny thoughts are busy chasing the darkness away
I find myself writing of shedding yesterday's fear which had
Forbidden my natural sense of joy
To freely express pure delight on both sides of the street
And now, if you are wondering why I flew to the coast without Will
Please listen closely while I clarify this fact:
I did not leave Will alone to fend for himself in his time of need …
Because that's not how I choose to love
When I offer love, my mind stands still on the curb while
Looking both ways, cautiously
Thus offering my heart the freedom to open so fully as to
Spread love, all around as smoothly as
Softened butter melting on warm, wholesome bread
And having arrived at that thought
I feel ready to switch tracks and reveal the reason why
I flew off alone—you see—
Barry was unable to get Will on my flight—
So, if you'd thought otherwise, perhaps you'll see why
I'd mentioned that the human brain is quite impressionable
At every stage of life, which is why
I've come to believe it's vital to consciously retrain our brains
To combine impressionability with curiosity, bent upon asking ourselves
Positively focused questions or else we may allow
Fear to carve out darker trains of thought more often than we know …
And as that had once been true of the way
My brain had processed emotion …
Intuition suggests that, today, when push comes to shove
Two heads, on the same wave length, may be better than one when
Brainstorming toward solutions to life's complexities proves necessary …
And that's most especially true when balance in all things refers to
Balancing an emotion like fear with logic based in common sense
Bottomline, though your comfort zone may not be in sync with mine
We may actually, eventually, reach the same destination—
Wherever that may be—at different times—by tapping into
The magic inherent in both minds :)
Though Will's flight landed at our mutual destination later than mine
We'd both readily accepted that reality for these reasons:
December 2013
Whoops! Guess who just stuck his head in to remind me of the time?
David, whom I'm about to drive to the airport, because another short but sweetly memorable time of enjoying each other's company has come to an end—until next time :)
The human mind is also exceptionally impressionable
Being curious works well for us at every stage of life
Why? Because curiosity opens our minds in expansive ways
On the other hand …
Impressionability can bring stiff consequences at every stage of life
Why? Because impressionability opens us
To believe that which is not true
Whereas being curious is childlike in that it leads toward growth
Being impressionable may be childish if your mind
Absorbs belief unquestionably—as mine once did
If we consider balance in all things then common sense suggests
That impressionability and curiosity would be wise to hold hands …
Do you realize how often I ask the question 'why' while I write?
Do you realize how often I ask myself to reconsider why
My feelings lock horns with my thoughts—born of
A belief system that I'd been taught to uphold during youth?
Do you realize how often our belief systems crash head on with intuition?
Do you have any clue as to when a belief is squashing an
Opportunity that intuition has brought to our attention, repeatedly?
When I feel damned if I do and damned if I don't
I ask why Mother Nature continues to knock at my door
With this particular conundrum in hand?
Is she goading me with what I believe I can't have or
Is she hoping to rouse insight into
Limitations I unknowingly place on my sense of right and wrong?
Though I knew that no one was harder on me than me
Though I knew that no one sold me as short as I'd sold myself
It was not until recently that I was offered reason
To re-evaluate an inherited belief system which had
Caged my appreciation of singing out loud with the same
Joyful openness that I'd expressed freely as a child
So, how, you may ask has my belief system changed, today?
Well, at this late stage of my life
I listen more readily to intuition, which
Repeatedly whispers that
As long as I look both ways and rein in greediness
It's healthy to question my belief system for this reason:
Each time I feel the need to question my belief system by
Spending time in reflection, common sense pops up, offering
Me deeper insight into life, love and personal need, and
As time spent in reflection distinguishes deserved guilt
From undeserved guilt with which I flog myself
My ability to swim through layers of emotional confusion
Lightens up, and once I discover where
I need to lighten up on myself
I gain clarity into what it means to truly think for myself
Then, given time to think ever more clearly, guess what results?
Negatively focused fear, which had caged my spirit
Thus narrowing my horizons
Undergoes positively-focused-change-for-the-better in that, over time
Metamorphosis takes place inside my mind, which
Expands as as naturally as
Butterflies ultimately fly free of their restricting cocoons
And once the narrow boundaries of my comfort zones expand
My spirit feels free to delight in pure joy by
Following intuition's instructional guide, which increases my wing span
At least enough to fly over fear's emotional traffic jams in order that
I can fully enjoy every golden opportunity that
Life offers me on both sides of the street
BTW: If you thought I had any clue of awakening at 4:58 am
To pen this train of thought … well my friends, please think again :)
You see, I wrote the title of today's post, last night …
Suggesting that I'd planned to address the reason why I ended up
Flying to the coast on my own …
Then, after saving that title, most of me went to sleep—except for
My subconscious, which keeps secrets from my conscious mind
And at this point in today's post, it's come clear that
My subconscious must have spent much of the night whispering
Today's entire train of thought into intuition's ear for this reason:
My subconscious trusts intuition to awaken my conscious mind to
Deeper truth that speaks to me, seemingly
Out of the blue in the wee hours when
I find myself awakening with the compelling need to
Take my mini iPad off the night stand in order to
Illuminate yet another change for the better taking place
Inside my mind before the sun rises and thus
While sunny thoughts are busy chasing the darkness away
I find myself writing of shedding yesterday's fear which had
Forbidden my natural sense of joy
To freely express pure delight on both sides of the street
And now, if you are wondering why I flew to the coast without Will
Please listen closely while I clarify this fact:
I did not leave Will alone to fend for himself in his time of need …
Because that's not how I choose to love
When I offer love, my mind stands still on the curb while
Looking both ways, cautiously
Thus offering my heart the freedom to open so fully as to
Spread love, all around as smoothly as
Softened butter melting on warm, wholesome bread
And having arrived at that thought
I feel ready to switch tracks and reveal the reason why
I flew off alone—you see—
Barry was unable to get Will on my flight—
So, if you'd thought otherwise, perhaps you'll see why
I'd mentioned that the human brain is quite impressionable
At every stage of life, which is why
I've come to believe it's vital to consciously retrain our brains
To combine impressionability with curiosity, bent upon asking ourselves
Positively focused questions or else we may allow
Fear to carve out darker trains of thought more often than we know …
And as that had once been true of the way
My brain had processed emotion …
Intuition suggests that, today, when push comes to shove
Two heads, on the same wave length, may be better than one when
Brainstorming toward solutions to life's complexities proves necessary …
And that's most especially true when balance in all things refers to
Balancing an emotion like fear with logic based in common sense
Bottomline, though your comfort zone may not be in sync with mine
We may actually, eventually, reach the same destination—
Wherever that may be—at different times—by tapping into
The magic inherent in both minds :)
Though Will's flight landed at our mutual destination later than mine
We'd both readily accepted that reality for these reasons:
December 2013
Whoops! Guess who just stuck his head in to remind me of the time?
David, whom I'm about to drive to the airport, because another short but sweetly memorable time of enjoying each other's company has come to an end—until next time :)
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