Recipe:
1 Clear drinking cup
3-4 Scoops of dirt
Clean water
Take your clear cup or drinking glass and toss in your
scoops of dirt. Then fill clear cup or drinking glass with clean water. View
content of glass: Do NOT drink. What do you see? Is the glass cloudy? Does the
water look appealing to drink? Would you serve this drink to friends or family?
No!
Think of the cup as your mind. The dirt represents mean,
harsh, worried, negative thoughts. The clean water represents kind, encouraging,
uplifting, positive thoughts. Now, even though you only have a couple of dirt
scoops (negative words) in the glass, it still causes the glass (your mind) to
be unappealing and not serve worthy. Even a couple of negative thoughts in your
mind are causing you to not serve at your best. It’s only natural to have
moments of stress that bring on negative or worried mindsets, but follow the
rest of the recipe.
Take your glass that still has the dirt scoops in it and
keep pouring clean water in it. What do you notice? You’ll find that as you
keeping pouring the clean water into the cup, the cup overflows and overflows
until the dirt gets lifted to the rim of the cup and flows out. Keep running
the clean water long enough and you’ll find there’s no longer any dirt in the
cup; the cup is crystal clear and ready to serve!
That’s the recipe to a healthy mindset: Keep pouring
positive words and thoughts into your mind until the negativity flows out. Keep
pouring, and when you think you don’t need to pour anymore….keep pouring. This
is not an overnight recipe, but the results are delicious!
Cheers!
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