Thought Investigation

We navigate this world with extreme levels of emotion and intuition. 

The human mind is extraordinary. 

However, left to its own devices, its primary concern is survival. Happiness is secondary, if even a priority at all. 

Which is unfortunate for us, because our goal is no longer to just survive but to also thrive. Surviving doesn’t equal happiness, so we must press deeper. 

It is very possible that the things you believe about your world and everything in it are incorrect or skewed, at the very least imbalanced. It is affected by your culture, your upbringing, and everything around you. It is very curious to me that so many of us never stop to investigate our thoughts. 

It seems absurd, our thoughts are our thoughts. They can’t be wrong, can they?

Have you ever judged someone or something right away, and then learned more about it and realized your assessment couldn’t have been more wrong?

How many times do we do this? 

How wrong can we be about ourselves?

So many women make sweeping declarations to me, they’re awkward, unphotogenic, their nose is too something, their thighs are something else. 

Have you ever investigated those thoughts? If you think your nose is wrong, that means you have a belief that noses *should* look like something else. But if you look around, is that true? Is there a way that noses *should* look, or is there a million different noses among you?

How about bodies? Your body is all wrong, isn’t it? How do you know? You must believe bodies should look like something. Bodies shouldn’t have cellulite, right? Is that true? In your experience, do bodies have cellulite? Of course they do. And they also don’t. Both are true.

Does hating your body change your cellulite? 

Does living in misery make your body whatever fantastical idea of a body you have conjured up?

It surely doesn’t. Reality is reality. Reality is here and now. To hate what is here and now is lunacy. It exists. Your feelings towards it won’t change it one way or another. The only thing that changes is how you feel about what is happening. 

And I’ll leave you with this. 

What is more effective, war or peace?

Then why are you waging war on yourself expecting change, when you really long for peace?