The last month has been one of the best months of my life - but it also felt quite intense: traveling a lot and staying with friends and family; not really having a routine of my own but trying to relax and enjoy discovering new places and faces. It was fun but this last week had brought me to actually North Pole, which is not only very north and remote, but where actually I need to start my life all over again. Being in a new country (recently married and relocated to my husband's), with nothing to do and not knowing anyone, I felt with no purpose at all. I started my days with a nothing agenda and I ended up my days with a nothing agenda. My sole purpose was to drag myself all through the day like a convalescent. Slowly but firmly, I started to believe I had reasons to pity myself and the result was that I complained so much that my husband pitied me and got concerned. My mind was going crazy!
But two days ago I told myself this needs to stop. I had to stop wasting my time by doing nothing and finding fault in this blessings I'm walking (happily married to the best man in the world, living in beautiful Alaska). My mind was wasting the blessings that I had received from God. I told myself that true, I got no agenda, no connections, a full time working husband but I had myself and I had God and a truck I was been trying to learn how to drive. I decided to start with the small things. The small things are safe things - you can only get wrong here if you want to get wrong.
So, the next morning, I woke up early in the morning. My body recognized the first signs of waking up and rushed into responding to them: by making me wake up even more. My body was expentantly reacting to my mind. I washed my face and started coffee. As I did want so badly that day to start well, I decided to get some external stimuli that would pump me up for the day. So, I read a devotional, listened to inspirational music and prayed in my spirit for a definite start. Doing so, my mind got infused by the Holy Spirit and understood that the new day was the blessing in itself - but a blessing needs to be redeemed in order to leave you blessed (like the present that needs to be open so you can enjoy it). So, hearing God's good promises for me, feeding myself with positive thoughts allowed myself to develop a positive expectation about the day. My positive mind then took over my still sleepy body and made me HURRY to get out for a fresh start! I made it out of the flat.
You need to understand that I did not have to get out of bed. I did not have to work. I don't have to work. I did not have to drive my husband to work. He could drive himself. But I wanted to do something (anything for a start)!!!
Then I drove to the gym and seeing all those people working out made me realize that I could work out too. Get yourself where there is competition (even if passive, no one cared about me as I did not know anyone) and you will get competitive. I jogged and did weight training and all that and I was feeling happy, capable, motivated and inspired to actually do something - to even contribute to the formation of sweat. Physical activity results in endorphins, which brings joy and a sense of contentment. So, all gooood!
I therefore felt better, felt valuable, felt irreplaceable and I felt strong. I started to make a plan with things I will want to do - things that I have always wanted to do but never had the time for them. I was starting to appreciate what I had and used it to get what I wanted.
Meditating on this rapid change of mind right now (today is my second day of me getting out of bed), it makes it clear to me that a good start brings a good day. A good day turns into a good routine, which in the long run will work on making a good life. My good life.
But of course there's always a choice to be made and a decision to take .But it is incredible how quickly it gets for the physical actions to respond to the nervous stimuli. It takes seconds!! You speak to your mind the positive thought and tell your mind there's a purpose in this new day; then the mind in itself is trying to create purpose by making neurological connections and creating strategies and agendas. The abstract strategies have the power of the brain in themselves -which means they want to create something too - so they start mobilizing the body to actually get the agenda done. And it all started with a decision and a positive mind.
It is funny how so many people look at their body and then try to align their brain and mind to respond to the body. But a lazy body creates a lazy mind. No wonder there are people that never move on. But respecting the hierarchy (spirit-brain-body) one can get from the Spirit the purpose of God (full of life, purpose and goodness) which makes your brain want to create that purpose. The body in itself only submits to its authority by mechanically making it possible.
I have therefore promised myself to always start my days right. To start it with God and get from Him power, inspiration and motivation for the day. It is hard to start things right. It is hard cause it means you need to be organized, structural and focused. And we all want just to be lazy sometimes; we all want the reaping season without working into the planting season. But there is no such thing!! And because it is so hard to get distracted/lazy, I always need to remind my mind about the heart of God and the majestic promises that He has in store for me. I need to remind myself constantly that I was created to succeed and to be blessed.
And with every day that passes by, the more I listen to my mind which proclaims God's promises, the more things my mind will prepare for me to walk in. After so many experiences with God, I understood that there are always beginnings and there are always reasons to feel afraid. But we need to hold on to what we know; and what I know more than anything else is that God will always provide and redeem and reinvent your story again.
But you need to start it right! Here is the order:
Set up the alarm clock. Get out of the bed when it rings.
Let your Spirit inspired by God (read your Bible, read a devotional, listen to inspirational music) - worship God in your Spirit by declaring His might and power and goodness over your life.
Believe in your spirit that all God is is what God wants you to have.
Tell your mind God's resources are for your empowerment.
Tell your mind this again; and all over again until it starts believing it.
Let your body react to the revived spirit. Listen to what your mind tells you to do. Do it (Use your limbs to assemble the things that God motivated you to do)!
And ALWAYS speak truth to your mind (your truth can only be God's truth).
Do this every day and see what happens!
And now, get ready to kick up your day!
God will bless you!
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