Reshaping Your View

The only way to reshape your view of life is to have a different view in place that will allow it to happen. This is where quietness comes in because without it there won’t be awareness of what needs reshaping…

Watching television is not my favorite way to past time, but the other night I caught the third period of a hockey game. When the game was over I began looking for something else to watch. Fifteen seconds on one channel, ten seconds on another, five on another, than another and another, you get the picture. It’s amazing how we stay fixated on something, in this case the TV when it comes to the mind. We’re so reluctant to reshape our view of life even though we’re going round and round in circles. Actually what’s on the TV (the fixation) is mostly reruns, yet we’ll watch the same channel (thoughts) over an over. Even though there are many channels (thoughts) we get stuck on the TV and don’t know how to reshape this view.

Think of something you get fixated on and see how hard it is to reshape your view when it gets you in its grip. Unless there’s total awareness of this, reshaping your view will be just about impossible. The only way to reshape the view you have of life is to have an open mind that will allow it to be reshaped. This is where quietness comes in because without it there won’t be awareness your view needs reshaping. It may be a repeated view (thought) disguised with many different labels, but it’s still an old view. Watch the subtleness of this and in time you’ll see your view for what it is and how it likes to default to what’s familiar. The issue is you can get so comfortable with this that it’s not realized your view needs to be reshaped…