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I have often heard that our thoughts are our prayers. I don't know about you but I can get a little stressed about that. I have quite the peanut gallery rattling around up there. On top of little nuggets of fun they have thrown my way (you'll never do that, who are you kidding? why would anyone care what you think?), they also like to take pot shots at other people (what an idiot, why would they do that? what is up with that shirt?).
I'm not proud of the chatter in my brain but I also don't think I'm the only one with a snarky little gremlin running color commentary on a walk through the grocery store.
So, knowing my thoughts are prayers (in others words, what we think has energy and can manifest in life-also known as 'thoughts become things') can be discouraging. How much crap am I sending my way?
But then I was listening to an old talk from my minister online and at one point he said, our lives are our prayers.
Something in that caused my shoulders to drop and prompted a big sigh of relief. I can get so caught up in the voices in my head, especially when they are negative and heavy, that I sometimes forget that I am still moving through this space despite internal prompts to just go back to bed and pull the covers over myself. It's not just my thoughts that I'm putting energy into. In fact, I'm often putting energy into all the other facets of life, despite negative thoughts.
That realization helped me detach a little more from the thoughts in my head. I have long since realized that many of those thoughts aren't even my own-they are someone else's voice on a loop in my brain. Still, even knowing that rationally doesn't always make it easier when the internal stuff is especially painful or vulnerable.
Yesterday's gift was to realize that many times, my thoughts are much less a part of my whole life than I realized. I look back and see that despite (or because of) everything, I continue to grow, mature, reach out, express, create. I am kind more often than I am not. I am forgiving, more often than I'm not. I am creative, more often than I'm not. I am positive more often than I am not.
And that, in my opinion, is a pretty beautiful prayer to create during this go 'round on earth.
I know so many beautiful prayers are being manifested by each of you. I would encourage anyone reading this to look back and look at now and look around and acknowledge the beauty or fun or joy or peace you are manifesting, just by being you.
in and of and as joy~
13 comments:
Beautiful!! Thanks for this!
Do you suppose the gremlins in your head are simply there for your amusement?
I have often laughed out loud at the disparaging remarks that my little inner voice has uttered. Because in truth I am often more Odd, more disheveled and behaving in a "head in the clouds way" than most of the folks i am inner ranting about. It becomes far more entertaining for me to turn my gremlin comments back on myself..to the tune of gales of laughter.
I once heard a poem " there is a devil that i do not doubt, but is he wanting in me? or just plain wanting out."
LOL
Enjoying the JOY that you spread!!!
Brandi,
Lovely process you took us through here. I am so glad that you absorbed what your former minister said, as I hold that view myself. Our life is our prayer, our offering to the Universe of our time well spent here--or not.
I don't believe thoughts are prayers. Thoughts are thoughts. They come and they go. They can be sourced in the Spirit or sourced in the ego. Thoughts, well-honed, consciously crafted, and soulfully offered, of course, can be prayers. But there is a distinction...Make sense?
Today I am celebrating your prayer-full life. Yes!
Can't wait for Joy Rebel Day. Coming soon!
Hugs to you. Have a lovely weekend.
I don't think anyone can control those snarky comments that just pop into our heads. As long as they are just thoughts, though, I guess it doesn't matter. How we live is a much better prayer than what we think.
I deeply love the thought that Our life is our prayer. With this new thought Brandi I can get through my days with much more joy.
Thank You!!
{raises hand} - me too. I have me some of that brain-chatter that's not always positive and uplifting.
So, I like this thought. "Our life is our prayer" - that is much more comforting, much more peace-filled.
Thanks for sharing this insight!
"Thoughts become things" is something that drives me crazy, to be honest. I think this concept is false, harmful, and often used very manipulatively, to be more honest.
I like the gentle way you approached this topic. I have trouble being gentle about it, because it makes me angry. I have seen so much guilt and self-hate grow out of this idea that our thoughts directly create our physical reality. And as someone with OCD, my mind boggles at the idea that each thought a person has is so darn significant.
Well, I could write much more, but I will leave it at that. Thanks for your good words.
I think it's these little nuggets of wisdom (your realization AND the sharing of it) that totally outweigh the mind chatter nuggets of disstraction ... scales are still tipped on the side of JOY.
Now this is a wonderful sentiment to ponder as I start my Saturday. Thank you Brandi!
Our thoughts are our prayers.
I like that. I like that alot.
This has been another one of your excellent posts Miss Brandi!! Bravo!
Peace & Love.
Amen Brandi. Very well written insights here.
At the end of the day, I believe that our positive thoughts and actions should outweigh our negative.
I think we need to pay more attention to the thoughts that drift in and out of our minds, but I sure hope each thought isn't a prayer to the universe.
In a simple 60 seconds, I can think about... what to wear today, should I get a haircut, wow - that bird flew by quickly, is it hot outside?, is that a car in my driveway? that dog walking by is so well-groomed, what should I make for supper, I need to go to the grocery store, I need to check the bus schedule, I would love an iced coffee right now....and so on...
Just saying...what a waste of universal energy if each and every one of my thoughts were taken seriously.
But then again, I do believe that thoughts become things, so how do we train our minds to block out the clutter?
great post!
I love this post. My understanding of meditation is that it is a tool to teach us that we are not our thoughts, that they are almost their own little universe happening in our brains ... and that as long as we don't get caught up in them, and give them alot of power, we're cool!
ANd our life is our prayer ... how beautiful is that!
I have those snarky thoughts, and I realize that when I am meditating and being mindful, I catch them and they make me laugh at myself. The times I am not being so mindful, I let them lead me down a path where my life is not such a good prayer. Eek.
I am going to take time today, Joy Rebel Day, to read some of your wonderful, uplifting posts. That will be part of my celebration.
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