Fasting for Your Mind

Fasting for our minds

Everyone has heard of fasting. The practice of taking a
hiatus from food. Doing so has lots of beneficial effects
on our bodies.

Mostly ridding our body of toxins.

What about ridding our minds of toxins?

Sound like a good idea?

Here, do this:

Don't think a negative thought for seven straight days.

Can't do it? Of course you can't... What this means is if a
negative thought comes into your mind, let it go.

Don't let a single negative thought stay in your mind for
more than a moment or two.

Often when I hear people speak about meditating, they
complain that they can not concentrate.

OK fair enough, do the following, this is like a
visualization:

Picture a train, lets say it has almost a hundred cars...
You are on one side of the train tracks. What you're
focusing on, what you're meditating on is on the other side
of the tracks...

A distracting thougth pops into your mind, instead of
bitching and moaning that you've lost your place...

See the distraction as a passing railroad car.

Remember when you get stuck at a RR crossing, waiting for
the long train to finish up?

you can still see the street, the cars on the other side of
the train.

Get the picture?

So do it, do it right now! Seven days with no negative
thoughts

OK,OK here is an additional tactic:

Picture your postal mail box. Negative thought comes in.

don't open it

If you want, you can even write on it: "return to sender"
Put that damn thing back in the mail box and flip up the
flag so the mail man/ mail person can send it back where it
came from...

It doesn't live here anymore:)

David Bruce
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