I spend my Saturday nights exploring my thoughts with a group of similar minded people. Our meeting is based upon the three principles, a healing program created by a man named Syd Banks. The principles focus upon consciousness, mindfulness and thought and how these three keywords play a role in our lives. In the meeting we talk about our positive moments, we share our successes and we share our failures, and tie it all together with a focus on those mentioned three principles.

A lot of what happens in our lives can be based upon thought and how it drives us down some paths or chooses another instead, based upon the impact of the thought on our lives. I can be having a bad day, and if I am able to recognize how my thoughts are feeding into a negative wave, I might better be able to move myself away from that mental processing in my mind. Syd Banks who pioneered the three principles, suggested we have numerous thoughts throughout our day, including hundreds inside a minute. 

Our actions are often driven by those thoughts. Tonight we are faced with the holidays, that sort of Christmas blues I’ve talked about before. It could be difficult for me if I let that be the case. Instead I’m trying to focus upon the good. I have my children in my life, my daughter’s three children and I will celebrate with them over the holiday. In addition I have my family of siblings and their kids that will gather for a celebration around Christmas. I have a lot to be thankful for.

I think finding kindness is a huge part of the Christmas holiday. Our thoughts are so bound to past and present, it is sometimes difficult to keep our focus on the present. As I’m writing this it piques my interest in staying focused on having a good holiday and not one that brings me down. So for the moment I am thinking about the good in my life, and using that as a vehicle to allow myself to be free of that pain I may more easily walk around with. That’s where my focus on how my thoughts determine my day come into play. 

That’s the key. Staying present with our lives rather than focusing on those which bring me down. An easy explanation leaves us with many layers to unwrap.

Good night.