A healthy dose of re-hash and rumination

The definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

When we continually go round in circles, (like our furry friend hamster) this may be the expected outcome.Or. We can change our way of thinking. No more dark and stormy nights.There is a lot of good to be learned from “digging deep.” Up the past.

Thinking on the bright side for a change. When might digging up the past finally allow it to be put to permanent rest. Right now, everything in the world seems so dreadful, dark. A never ending “mixed bag” of tumult and treacherous waters to navigate.

Take a breath.

Just breathe.

The world is not as glum as we think. Our minds have been conditioned to accept what we know, expect to hear what we want to hear. When we are challenged our most is when our true self “comes out.” Maybe even out of the wood work. When we feel a rage so strong we cannot keep it in, we punch a wall, kick a wall to prove we are stronger than the naysayer critiquing us before us.

Change our thinking? Ironically, we never thought of this path. The path of least resistence? We thought that inspires weakness, or at the very least a person not willing to fight “for the cause.”

Turns out, the complete opposite may be true and we failed to give “it” the second thought. Our minds too busy with the before of how things were, we closed them to the possibilities of happiness and light. Change the script, adjust our anger.

Pigeon-holing is for the birds.☺️

We can all change for the better, maybe not a lot, but even a little is good, better. Change a reaction, change a thought, change a tire we never knew we could. We are given the gift of a day to test our own ideas, a beautiful day, to take a breath, figure out goodness, even in the midst of another person’s “crabby.”

Take anything too personally? Forward progress can quickly go to pot, down the drain, or up a creek without a paddle.

Digging deep. Hurts like heck yet feels so good. Who would have thunk it? Why not look at moments of despair like a volcanic eruption—the burn comes up and out, the heat extinguished once and for all.

Well, maybe not for all. Better out than in, I always say. Face it, one way or another the festering rears its ugly, ugly head. After all, do we really even know answers to life’s hardest questions?

Not really.

Especially in this century of robotic love taking over…love.

”Is the mind the same as the brain, or do we have souls?”

Great question.

I know what I think.

It is important to know that individual humans have differences and differences of opinion when it comes to “Soul Sisters” or “Soul Brothers.” Whether or not love is just a feeling or a way of life. An expression of one’s soul day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute, second to second.

To all attorneys in the world here is a humdinger of a question:

”Is it the main purpose of law to promote morality?”

”Is science compatible with religion?”

You see there are no always right answers and there are no always wrong answers.

Some of life’s heavier questions, like these compel us to dig deep, dig into the past and most importantly dig deep within ours souls to really understand what makes us “tick.”

We spend countless hours trying to figure out what makes another human tick and we lose so many precious seconds adjusting our being to satisfy their needs, wants and unfortunate gratifications.

The exercise of digging into the past offers us an alternative for the ways things can be. We ebb and flow, fit and start, fall back into old and familiar patterns because when it comes right down to it.

Change is hard.

Why go deep?

It unleashes the beast.

Allows us the space to be.

Helps us to answer why we do what we do and why others either don’t care, notice or realize it may be of their own doing.

Yes. It is a dance. Digging into the past of past mistakes and errors in judgment allows the investigator to research something’s history in detail, often to uncover hidden information or find answers. (ai)

Processing the who, what, where, when and why takes a long time when past time and events alter our state of consciousness.

The good news. peace is possible with self-reflection of memories, reactions and most of all feelings. Keeping it positive is near to impossible and should not be used to find past wrongs to use against someone. There seems to be an epidemic of this behavior and a focus taken off the more important areas of our existences. One should never bring up the past to shame or control another.

Rehashing the past can be futile at best, hurtful at the worst. There can be a method to the madness when uncovering the truth of the lie and the lie of the truth. The darkness looms in the day, too. At the end of the day it matters not so much if we are “right.” It does matter how much forgiveness we used through the day (flipping the bird in bad traffic does not count).

Memories may tether us to a past we desperately want to forgive and forget. We answer the call to our own mind not because we want to screw with another person, but because we want content satisfaction-a forgive and forget-reaction and a move to a brighter tomorrow.

Most of the time, sensitive persons “know by heart”, backwards and forwards how their heart directs their footsteps.

Rest assured that rest will not automatically be the tonic of the day. The mind is a vast and powerful wasteland of regrets, happiness and the forgotten.

The best we can do may be the worst we can do. At the end of the day, we always have a choice to change for the sake of the outcome.