Tag: mind

Home!

Jennifred Jones

Your place of tranquility, peace of mind, rest and safety.

‘Where are you talking about?’ It can be a place in your mind and heart you resort to in turbulent times…a place no one can enter where you can just ‘be’ and contemplate next steps.

It can also be your physical house or dwelling where you close the door and only you and yours can be together to rest and plan and inspire one another.

I suggest it also needs to be a place of beauty…not meaning flowers all over but needs to be tidy and welcoming. How does that happen in my mind? It can be kept tidy and welcoming also. Close the door to thoughts you don’t need to concern yourself with. Leave space in there for growth and development of the good things you want to accomplish. You can’t entertain every thought or video or movie coming along. Listen to good music to help keep mentally sound. Read good books about struggle to victory.

It can be a form of relaxation to putter around your dwelling, keeping things in order, rearranging and revitalizing the look. Figure out what you like, what works for you, what helps you become a better person. So many things sound too simple and insignificant, but the little things grow and either build you up or tear you down.

It’s your home. Take care of it. Make it welcoming to you. Make it your place of refuge, tranquility and hope.

Going Well

Jennifred Jones

Things may not be going well in the world, but they’re going well with me.

How can you say that???!!!  There’s so much to worry about! So many things messed up! People doing wrong, government and politics are out of control!!! How can things go well with me?

Sounds crazy, but I don’t live all over the world. I don’t even live all over my country. I live in one small community. That’s all I can deal with and manage by myself. If I am doing all I can within my capabilities and responsibilities, that’s it! That’s all I need to do and ‘worry about’. Yes, I am deeply concerned about events happening around me and the impact on me and mine, but I can only do and control what I can do and control. The rest I leave to God and pray about it all.

The alternative is to live inside the newsbox, worrying, fretting, afraid, suspicious, critical and unable to concentrate and produce what I need to make and do to make my portion of the world a better place! Can you hear me?! (I have had to talk to myself this way often!)

We have got to keep ourselves moving forward so things go well in our area of responsibility. We cannot lose steam and energy stopping to listen and ponder the next bad thing that happened. It’s not being cruel or thoughtless. It’s maintaining our own well-being. Our minds and bodies are not designed to shoulder the events of the entire world. We don’t live there. We are here and here is where we need to focus our energy to improve, protect and grow.

I can maintain peace in the storms of life through tending to my affairs and helping my neighbors. If we each help and watch out for one another, then our portion of the world will be better and hopefully spread to and encourage our neighboring ‘portions of the world’. But yes, it begins with us.

It is personal responsibility. I am a person. I am going to be responsible. It may be hard and seem out of my comfort zone, but so what! It is my life, my family, my community.

Let’s take care of ourselves and not leave it to another who might not do as good a job!

I’m Tired!

Jennifred Jones

I’m tired! I’ve had it!! Enough is enough!!!

The realization hit me. Why keep going around and around in the same old circle over and over, doing the things, following the same mental practice leading to the same results?

Why???

Things can be different. They can be better. There could be a better outcome.

The results don’t always have to be the same.

I will begin again… new thoughts, new ideas, new hopes, new dreams with…new results!

It’s really that simple – yet hard. Change the old thinking with new thinking.

The easy part is no physical effort involved.

The hard part – changing your mind.

But it’s time for a change of scenery.

Let’s go!