If you don’t see the fairytale that you live your life by, you become it and it takes you on the ride of whatever the fairytale is. There’s the fairytale of not feeling well, or of something that happened in the past. There’s the fairytale of your favorite team playing or work. How about the family fairytale or the fairytale of just wanting things different. The fairytales shape your life because of attachment, not because of what happens. These attached fairytale are where emotions arise from, they’re where fear, discontent, and anger form and gain their power. This is what attachment does, it takes the power away from you and hands it over to the attachment. Without attachment you have the power of how what happens in your life affects you, not so when there’s attachment. You cannot relinquish control without attaching a fairytale to what happens.
This is how it works, throughout the day if there’s not something in place to remain present, the fairytale begins and your power gets transferred to attachment. It doesn’t matter what the fairytale is, that you have transferred your power to an outside source is what matters. It’s outside because now objects, people, or circumstances control you and here’s the kicker, you alone have done this. So if you want to stop doing this the first thing is to understand what’s written here so you see what you’re doing. As summer approaches think of this, you may not be able to get rid of all the weeds on your lawn, but if you learn to not mind them, they won’t be a problem. Basically what has to be done in order not to create fairytales is to not mind what happens. If you want things to be different, your power will be transferred to whatever it is that’s wanted different. So watch your thoughts, don’t mind what happens and even though you may have a lawn full of weeds, the fairytale of not ever having any won’t be created…
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