NOTE: I'll be going to Mexico for a few weeks this coming weekend. There may or may not be Thought~Byte postings depending on Internet availability, which is an unknown at the moment
Have a great week and we'll be talking shortly one way or another!
As so often is the case, there are several ways to interpret this. Who left the scars? I submit that it was the parents who are largely responsible for the scars and the scarred individual then faces the challenge of rising above them.
It's also hard to avoid being wounded by life. Wounds we survive tend to leave scars. Even though it is hard, we must learn to and practice thinking anyway. It's like breaking a bad habit.
We have an old saying in the country, not the Kings English, but it applies here, keep going, and you will be alright is pretty much what it means..here it is: "Can't never did do nothing, till tried it came along."
Have a great trip and stay safe. I have a friend who lived on the Coast in Mexico, he had no problem getting out on his pc. If we are lucky, you will also be able to get out..Thanks for the great thought this am. Have fun, and don't eat the worm!!! Ellen B
Thinking's hard enough without all the extras. But since we're human, all that stuff comes with our memories, experiences, and our tender hearts. I'm certainly glad I'm able to feel and remember, and learn from the events in my life. I trust, however, that I won't let the negatives outweigh the good that I discover.
Buddhist's believe that life begins with a thought. It is why they strive to clear their minds of negative thoughts. It isn't that they don't have problems...they just understand that adding your own negative thoughts to any problem doesn't help to find a solution. It just creates more problems. It is why they work to put positive, compassionate, thoughts and idea's in their mind. That is the purpose of meditation. To be in union(yoga) with the supreme being, in this case Buddha. Have a positively grand time in Mexico.
I am going to visit my home this weekend so the scarring motif is most appropos - that was the place of the scar formation. Maybe Wolfe was dealing with his own mental scarring when he decided "You Can't Go Home Again." Home offers a respite as well as the most discerning microscope of all on your lifestyle and person. Moving to a completely different part of the US gave me a break form most of these feeling - a "fresh start" so to speak but returning home allows the old scars to emerge and you know others can see them as well.
" returning home allows the old scars to emerge and you know others can see them as well"
Donna,
1) Worrying about others seeing them is their business and a waste of your time.
2) The whole trick in therapy is to get scars to emerge so they can be addressed. Scars wilt in the sunshine and fears dissipate when examined.
So, consider a trip hope as free therapy and increased self-understanding. Be attentive and as the scars emerge consider them. I guarantee they will shrink.
We can choose to allow the scar tissue to interfere with our lives or choose, instead, to use the scars to toughen us while being more sensitive to others.
Gosh John, where are the positive things in this brain? Scar tissue? Looks like they hit a their personal brick wall. Sheesh.
Funny thing about scar tissue, the more you work it, the more flexible it becomes. It only becomes rigid when you baby it and never move it or stretch it because you're afraid of the pain that might be there.
I was just thinking here about all of the scar tissue we carry around with us. When we have too much of it, we become restricted and eventually can't live a free life.
In one of my earlier lives, I read something that referred to "baggage". We all carry it. It amounts to the same thing as scar tissue. If you know it's there you can get around it but you almost have to do it consciously at times.
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Have a great week and we'll be talking shortly one way or another!
Scar tissue can help us do better, go further, but often we let it hold us back out of fear.
But you already knew that. :-)
Good comments, Tracy.
It feeds into the old "if it weren't for (fill in the word of your choice ... my mother, discrimination, my height, chance ... etc.)" syndrome.
One of mine also, Tanya. It's a wonder we develop past 5.
Vivian, both points are well made. Thanks
With what Karen said, that's the issue. Not awareness but willingness to change.
A known negative is often worth more than an unknown positive.
Have a great trip and stay safe. I have a friend who lived on the Coast in Mexico, he had no problem getting out on his pc. If we are lucky, you will also be able to get out..Thanks for the great thought this am. Have fun, and don't eat the worm!!! Ellen B
Hasta luego.
Have a great vacation
Good point, Beth. It is the learning that counts.
Patrick, I appreciate the Buddhist perspective. Thanks.
I think of the purpose of meditation to clear the mind and putting positive thoughts in is an interesting concept as well.
Donna,
1) Worrying about others seeing them is their business and a waste of your time.
2) The whole trick in therapy is to get scars to emerge so they can be addressed. Scars wilt in the sunshine and fears dissipate when examined.
So, consider a trip hope as free therapy and increased self-understanding. Be attentive and as the scars emerge consider them. I guarantee they will shrink.
Have a good trip.
And they are calorie free with transfats.
So important, Diana, and hardest to remember when needed the most.
Aw, Beaker, can't I just lug it around behind me? I'm used to the weight. ;)
Definitely one way to look at it, John.
I consider the past less important than the choices looking forward.
We all have some of it, LaRue.
"no happiness in their lives and no room to let any in."
That's an interesting and evocative statement. Thanks.
It all in who you know, Robert.
Good quote, Ellen. Thanks.
I have also been in Mexico with no Internet problems and when there were. When things break in Mexico, manana comes into play.
At some level, Rebecca, it's true for everyone. No one grows up 100% unscarred.
Agreed, Jenn, though some people consider it a permanent fix.
Patricia, that is an important aspect to this. Thanks for raising it.
Linda, another important aspect. Thanks.
Sorry I had to be the one to tell you, Debra :)
Thanks, Haim. The mind is usually clear, the trips are less predictable.
Great thought!
Thanks.
Well have a good time.
Skipping breakfast
Have a Great & powerful day W/J!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jesus Love You Too!!!!!
Funny thing about scar tissue, the more you work it, the more flexible it becomes. It only becomes rigid when you baby it and never move it or stretch it because you're afraid of the pain that might be there.
Thanks.
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