Create Balance With Your Mind
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s mind.” – Buddha
Sunday’s message was the conclusion of the “Your Life In Balance Series.” Yesterday’s topic focused on the relationship between our mind and body and the need to balance our internal and external worlds. We reviewed some points from the previous weeks and revisited the Indian Proverb about the 4 rooms:
- Physical
- Mental
- Emotional
- Spiritual
Very few people are perfectly balanced in their approach to life. Our personalities seem to be predisposed to prefer one of the 4 rooms over the others. That’s perfectly natural, yet we still need to find balance in order to create a successful life because each of these four aspects of our life influences the other.
Diagnose the Problem
When your car breaks you ask a mechanic to find the problem, and when you get sick you go to a doctor for a diagnosis. The diagnostic tool for our lives is holy scripture because it clarifies the ideal human beings desire and the problem of our everyday reality. The purpose of religious teaching is to give us tools and a path to get from where we are to where we want to be.
” 9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. 10 Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. 11 Can both freshwater and saltwater flow from the same spring? 12 My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water. 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.” James 3: 9-16
Scripture uplifts the spirit and educates the mind, helping us find our internal priorities. The mind directs our body and influences our emotions. When we become physically weak or ill it is our mind that helps us take action to improve our health. When we become overwhelmed with emotion it is the mind that can reason it’s way back to stability. We create through a mental process.
Co-Creating Happiness
We develop our own reality by what we focus our attention on. In the following video we learn how we can use our own mind “to change the brain to change the mind for the better”. We can change our reality by changing the way we think and science is now proving this.
If we focus our attention on gratitude for an entire year we will feel and act differently. If we practice not complaining, but speaking and doing good things instead our lives will change dramatically. God created you but He/She didn’t finish you – you get to co-create yourself! It begins in your mind.
