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Good morning! May your day be sunny and bright! A second post today! I now have WordPress on my computer that went wonky! Putting things back in place! Much better than the phones keypad! I see my image is a little wonky this time too. Please forgive that!

This time coffee is indeed at the right, and I am ready to write something I hope will be more interesting.

A quote from Stephen Harrod Buhner’s book, Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

In fact, I think there needs to be a different way to be, and that begins with thought. However, there needs to be understanding with how the mind/brain works. I see it as the brain houses the mind. It is the mind that takes in thoughts, and then messages to the rest of the body what it has taken in. I know I did not give much personal attention to how my mind/brain had a role in what I did. It does! And we don’t seem to think about what it does. Just going with the flow of things may feel easier but it’s not wiser. We need to understand we are in charge of what we do by how we think about it! We do not have to do something with every thought we have, that comes up. All thought is triggered by something we respond to. It does not matter who you are or what you do. Consciousness is primary to all things that live! Without it we would not exist and be who we are. It is because of conscious thought that we should consider whether to put our thoughts into actions.

The world has gotten out of control due to how we respond to what has come our way. Most of that borders on a form of self-propaganda. What we have as our true reality. Each age and stage of life we grow, learning through experience. Consider experiencing the world. It’s not all good. There are many things that hurt us and make us very happy. When we file away the results of any experience, its filed away by the brain as basically “good, bad, indifferent and many subcategories. Think of the brain as a huge filing cabinet. Now think of a topic. What’s happen that is good or bad lately? Notice the mind at work. What is happening is that it is predicting what you want to use. It predicts all the pros and cons about the thoughts you have filed away. This is how propaganda works. This is why just going with the flow doesn’t work well. We must decern the world around us, and importantly what we take in from social media, and civilization around us. Thats broad I realize but we are now global. But let’s narrow it up to friends, family (our community of others.) All day we are responding to ourselves (what we believe is our best and truest realties.) However, we are also responding to the truest realities of other people, locally to us, and via social media etc. like Facebook, tic tock, Instagram ____wherever we interact people are who they are, and we respond through communication. Communication consists of thoughts, many thoughts!

We get tired of figuring things out, when we shouldn’t. We get tired of what others do when it is not something we believe to be right. We get tired of feeling overwhelmed by what happens in the world, and we feel a lack of control. Control begins with us. The problem (s) of our world feels too big! And in the past, we looked towards others to solve our problems and the worlds. What we need is to go back to ourselves as individuals and restart with new thinking. That is where change begins, that is what we can control, and how we set examples. Not by taking on “That sounds right! I will go with that!” Perhaps it doesn’t feel this is how you are. I observed myself and caught myself responding like that! I was shocked. I had prided myself not to be a goat that just followed along. I was different and did things my way! Give me an unbeaten path! I wanted to change things but did not see how. I always came back to myself and began to look at what I could change or affect through what I do. I have learned a lot from my experiences in life. I learned to reexamine those experiences. This time with a different approach. I realized I was not alone in being a human being. That how I processed the world at large, and most importantly my thoughts…. Well, we forget we all are processing, and we don’t get “it” at the same time…yet we have expectations of others that they should know all we know. This is so untrue. It’s impossible to walk in another person’s shoes! Can’t happen.

One thing that would help is if we all applied the rules for good communication and understood what this is. It does not happen. People no matter what they do in life can be ineffective, and very bad with communication. We often learn through observation how to communicate. But if it’s not a part of parenting a lot is missed. Good communication takes time, something we feel a lack of. It also is listening, taking turns in a conversation, observing one another’s body language, hearing the tone of voice. It involves who we are, what we believe. If we send mixed messages ___on purpose or unintentionally___ This is our responsibility towards ourselves and others to do our best with the information we send forth and take in. People who communicate well also check with the source of whom they are talking to. Then that source needs to help clarify. We need to be able to clarify so we do get it right. We need to have or make time the best ways we can, so we are not going off kilter.

So much! We as one person could not change the world itself. But we can do something about us! Our personal selves. And in doing so be an example to others by how we carry ourselves. We matter and must matter to ourselves first! If we learn to love who we are, trust and believe in ourselves that’s a start. Being accountable for who we are is a must, however. Nothing will change if we do not hold ourselves accountable through our own words and actions.

We can affect the world around us, our immediate family and community. I know it’s a long blog. I just wish the world to be a better place and people to be happy for no reason.

That thought stums all of us. And we get angry, hurt, and feel a loss of control….

It helps if you believe loved ones no longer hurt and are always with us. They are no longer here and that’s hard.

I keep coming back to what I can do something about. Letting go? Still feels like a poor answer because we feel we should do something.

Best wishes! Pejj