Today I am grateful for my mind. I am grateful for its seemingly boundless capacities to create, imagine, re-imagine, problem solve, tune in, tune out, let go, hold on, clear space, and fine tune. The mind is a vast playground and sometimes I find it easy to get stuck visiting the same monkey bars and hanging out at the same drinking fountain day in and day out. When life is easy its easy to get stuck in ruts...but when life gets sticky and I'm forced to go places i haven't been before, after I get finished whining and complaining about the unfairness of it all or the inconvenience of it all...I find myself in amazing new territories, meeting amazing new people, encountering experiences that I could never have dreamed would have existed and that I would never exchange. When life plays hardball the mind is allowed the opportunity to show its strength, versatility, and abilities. We are smarter and more capable then we often give ourselves credit for and its only when we are stretched that we are able to reach new ground.
So today I am grateful for the mind God has given me and I hope you will recognize the worth of your own mind as well. With so much mental illness in the world a sound mind is a blessing. Recognize it and guard it. Decide what kind of nourishment you wish to feed it. The outlets of your mind are your eyes, your ears, your mouth, and your hands. But these are also the entry ways into your mind and soul. School is in session every day! (and you thought you were done! haa!! haa!! :) ) You have the power to make the decisions that will strengthen or weaken or unleash the power of the mind.
You also have the opportunity to give your mind the chance to play every day, to imagine, and to day dream. Dont underestimate the power of dreams!!!!!! Dreams mix with desires to become passions that become actions that create results that bring changes that, with time, can shift the course of an entire world. Facebook. Google. Youtube. Cellphones. The home computer. Airplanes. Electricity. Cars. Printing Presses. All of these started in the day dreams of the mind. Whats your dream? It might just be what the entire world needs and doesn't even know it yet. Celebrate the mind. It truly is your own personal playground, battleground, and final frontier.
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