Ye Olde Sayings
Lou Ann loves to have her back scratched. Last night after doing that for her, I thought of the saying “I’ll scratch your back if you will scratch mine.” It is nearly impossible to scratch one’s own back. So when we make the agreement to exchange back scratches, we are doing something for someone they cannot do themselves. That feels like a very loving thing to do for one another.
Then I was lying there in bed and other old sayings began to pop in my head. “Do unto others as they would do unto you!” This is the essence of the Golden Rule. I guess we gave it the name golden, to show that is of the highest value. It really is a wonderful way to go through life. When making a decision, we consider all the ramifications of that decision upon others.
“There’s a bridge between your heart and your mind!” This is a line from the theme song of The Positive Place Television Talk Show. A former mentor used to say ” The mind is a wonderful thing, waste it!” He was being sarcastic to make a point. He teaches a course called Radical Honesty. In the eight day seminar he encourages folks to begin noticing. Then, not analyzing what we notice. He invites us to get in touch with our feelings. And to see how what we notice, affects us. We humans are meaning making machines. We attempt to put a meaning about almost every life event. When we do that, we often get stuck in our minds and judgments. Then it is difficult to allow ourselves to open up to a new paradigm.
Back to the bridge between our hearts and minds. It is when we make the eighteen inch journey from our thoughts to our feelings that we discover the magic of living. Here are more lyrics from the above theme song. Look inside yourself and you’ll find, There’s a bridge between your heart and your mind. There’s a positive, there’s a positive place.”
I encourage you folks to make that journey from your mind to your heart. When you do it often, it will change your life in marvelous ways. From my positive heart to yours, Thomas