It might be true that sometimes the right thing floats into
your life at the right moment. Just when you least expect it, as they say.
Today watching this Ted video was the perfect prescription
for my day. Lately I have struggled with my compulsive behaviours. The binge
that was December 2011 seemed to have set my frontal lobe on high-drive in
January. And just like with every new year, lots of change is occurring. Change
that I didn’t want to face. All change for the better, but occurring for me
like it is for the worst. I needed something to kick me into appreciating
transition fast so I could get back
to roping in my emotional impulses.
We are the sum of our experiences. It’s an interesting
distinction to look at ourselves not as someone who has experiences, but who is
their experiences. So often we complain about our circumstances affecting us,
but what if who we were was just a
collaboration of our experiences? If I truly believed this every day, I would
welcome each experience with acceptance and grace because that experience creates
who I am.
Our brain is a powerful thing. So often we don’t give it the
chance to reshape our lives in a moment. To catch the destructive thought
pattern we are travelling down, and switch it. I see the power of this organ on
days where I am so tired I could pass out on the subway- and then something
happens that perks me right up again. The only difference there is experience.
And the ability to create new contexts for life on the turn of a dime.
Stop-Change-Start is what I always say it’s like to alter
brain patterns. Change your perspective, change your environment, change your
context. Whatever you need to do to get started again; do it. Actions truly do
speak louder than words.
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