Guiding Thought

I am responsible! I am able to respond with and through conscious awareness of my inner-centered, silent Knowingness. I practice Knowingness moment by moment. Anchored in my inner-harmony, I have the courage to face my own thoughts and actions.

Contemplation / Reflection

Yesterday I posted about letting go of “false boundaries”. I have, for some time, been thinking, “I am not a morning person.” I asked my husband to wake me 15 minutes before my recent wake up time. My plan was to get up earlier in 15 minute increments. Instead of him waking me 15 minutes ahead of normal, I woke myself 45 minutes earlier. It felt great! I’ll do the same tomorrow. I feel this falls into the category of “courage to face my OWN thoughts and actions”. I can OWN those actions, without asking my husband to participate in the shift to “I AM a morning person”. I’m actually looking forward, someday in the not-too-distant future, to being up to witness the glorious sunrise. That’s something I’ve only done in recent history if I had to get up early enough to catch a morning flight.

Yesterday I also took my elderly father out for lunch and to a doctor’s appointment. He requires a wheelchair and oxygen tank any time he leaves home. In past experience, I’ve had someone with me to assist with all this cargo, but yesterday I was flying solo.  I faced the thought that this was going to be a challenge for me.  The wheelchair? That puppy’s pretty heavy to load and unload! Dad’s primary caregiver came out and loaded the chair into my car. He showed me the most efficient way to lift it.  So I unloaded at the restaurant. Reloaded it after lunch.  Unloaded it at the doctor’s. Reloaded to drive him home. Unloaded it at his house. Surprisingly, it wasn’t difficult at all!  So much for “facing my thoughts and actions”. The thought is often a precognitive set-up for the action. Without that negative thought, the action turned out much more comfortably. How often do I unconsciously set myself up to make things more difficult than necessary? Mindfulness/Knowingness is a wonderful thing. I’ll be watching myself more closely to face other circumstances where I think I “know” how things will go, without any real “Knowingness”!

Guest Contributor Mary Wallace

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