Think of thoughts like a buffet. Choose the things on the “buffet” you would love to eat/think not those that make you feel sick or those you do not like or prefer. If you choose the foods on the buffet that you do not like, you are not going to feel well later. If you choose the thoughts you do not like, you are not going to feel well later.
Nice metaphor, yes? We can all relate to a buffet and knowing what foods we like and what foods we don’t like. It’s the exact same! With both food and thoughts it requires discipline. With food, over time, you realize that although certain foods look and taste yummy, your stomach doesn’t digest them well. So you do not choose them. An example of this for me is doughnuts. When I was a senior at Calabasas High, my beloved Calculus teacher Satish let us bring in doughnuts from Blinkie’s Doughnuts every Friday. Best ever!💫🌟✨ It was so fun! 💫✨🌟🌈 I was so excited on Fridays and happily partook in those Blinkie’s.
But I began to notice that if I ate a few doughnuts before we had a tennis match, I did not feel well on the court. It felt like I had a bowling ball in my stomach. I didn’t play as well as I could. Not the Best ever!💫🌟✨ It took many Fridays for me to really take this in and finally, one Friday, I said no thank you to the doughnuts. And I kicked ass on the court that day.
Thoughts are the same! At first you just can’t resist the gossip, the trash talk, the old tape that you’ve been saying to yourself for decades that feels like ****…it’s so seductive! It’s so easy! You are a sloppy, lazy thinker (the easiest thought to think is the one you’ve thought the most) and then bam! You feel like crap afterward. Huh. Wonder why?
It’s all about the power of the focus of your mind. Only you can think in your brain.
Choose wisely. ✨🌟💫💛