This is the second part of You, my darling, YOU, hopefully better shaped.
I am a generally happy go lucky person. Now by that I mean it’s not easy to bother me and I don’t care much about disputes. At least not these days. I don’t even care about being right.
I used to. But now I think I’ve learnt what respecting others points of view means.
Besides… As long as they don’t interfear much with my life, why would I bother?
I am somewhat glad that I’ve started to befriend my mind.
As I previously said, life is much better when you’re friends with yourself.
Whatever it is that you do, there’s nothing worse for life than your mind being your worst enemy and, therefore, working against you.
I must state again that I believe too many people don’t pay enough attention to their minds.
That is unbelieveable, considering the fact most things start with yer mind. Well mostly on a perception and awareness basis (thanks Nick).
I believe that, for the individual, there’s nothing more powerful than their mind. Both ways, good and bad.
I am an egotistical maniac. I admit it. I’m also a narcissist. I admit it.
Am I the center of the world?
I don’t think so, but I’m the center of my world for sure.
And may, on occasion, become the center of someone elses world too.
Leaving it all aside though, I am yet again glad I have befriended my mind a bit. I’m also glad I’ve tamed it and started controling it a bit. And I haven’t worked much on it. It’s rather due to the events that took place in my life over the past year.
Took two imense falls and all the other falls I took were felt more heavily than they should’ve been felt.
Anyhew… After what I’ve been through last year, there are truly few things that can really affect me right now, and I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
Also, if I was able to overcome what happened, I’m pretty sure there’s nothing, well at least not in this world, that can beat me. At least not on a psychic basis.
That being said… I suggest an interesting exercise:
Tonight, when you go to bed, or at whatever time of meditation you choose, try and meet up with yourself. That’s right. Yourself.
One time I met up with Liz, she whipped the hell out of me. We physically fought til we couldn’t breathe no more. That happened last year.
Then we had another meeting. We fought again, but ended up hugging.
Recently we had a third meet. But this time we weren’t two different forces.
I felt myself drawn to her. I looked at her in amazement, and felt really comfortable.
Even with her flaws. I loved her. Wanted to hug and hold her close to me. Spend more time with her. Feel her better and see her for real, not only with my mind’s eyes.
I wasn’t expecting that. But it wasn’t my other Liz. It was me. With flaws and qualities. And it felt truly safe and pleasant to be with me.
What does it feel like for you? If you met up with yourself… What would you say, do, understand?
I think it’s interesting. Get to know yourself, your mind.
Again… It is extremely important to know what you’re working with.
To know what you like to do, what’s easy for you to do, what you wouldn’t be caught dead doing (regardless of how easy it is for others, it’s not them, it’s you). To know how much it takes to get over something (because sometimes you just shouldn’t force yourself to move on and should allow yourself a period of grieving, understanding, relaxing etc). You also have to respect the way your body works so you can be most harmonious. To know what can get you over something and how to achieve it.
You should mostly pay real close attention to yourself as a whole.
That means your body, your mind and your heart. And when I say your heart, I mean your senses. The intimate reasoning.
Like, par example, as analogy… I’d love it if the building in front of my building would be spiral shaped. But there’s really not much I can do about that.
As analogy to the body… I’d love it if I could be made of honey par example (joking, but you’ll see the point), but that just ain’t happening. So I should work with what I got, right?
After thinking for a while, I’m under the impression that the most important things are harmony and peace. To be in harmony with yourself. So… I can only wish y’all to achieve harmony and peace.
And remember one thing… In a physical form… It is only you who’ll be with you for sure til the end. Whatever you do, feel, etc. is mostly, if not completely your choice.
As for the mind… Sometimes punishment is good. But it may not always be the right way to solve a conflict.
You should pay attention to how you feel.
There are times when I feel I need punishment and a nudge to be productive, to be in harmony. Especially when I’m lazy. But sometimes other things help more.
You’ll never have total control. We’re flesh, we die, we get sick, we get cuckoo. But it’s most important to try and be in harmony with yourself.
There’s a total difference between how pain hits you when you’re in harmony with yourself and when there’s chaos around.
Pain will find you. It’s a constant in life. You can avoid it sometimes, but not all the time.
So will happiness. One way or the other.
But being harmony is most important for a balanced life.
Now I don’t know if this text made any sense to y’all. I wrote it a while ago, and can’t be bothered to check it again. So if it doesn’t make any sense, just pull on my sleeve and I’ll see what I can do about it.
Also apologies for the lack of pictures. Will add them some other time. 
Until then, I will be on and off… So all the best to y’all and… Catch you soon.
Lizzy,
This post was very beautiful. I agree that the body/mind should definitely be in harmony. I was actually reading Osho and he had been talking on the same thing. Just being yourself, what can be considered good and bad qualities, not lying to yourself or to others. Its human nature to be in good shape and to also be in bad shape, although a play on words its merely who you are. So why try and change who you are.
Osho uses the example of the rose bush as it says, “I have this compulsion, I always grow roses!” It’s not a compulsion, it’s just the way you are, his response would be, “With my blessing, go on growing roses, as big of roses as you possibly can, and as many as you can and forget all that compulsion nonsense! You are not caught up in anything. This is You!”
I thought that to be very beautiful of how we work as human beings and to go along with your text. We are so caught up in trying to perform or to be something we are not, strive to always be good, but the fact of the matter is, who are we fooling, we are not always “good”. I use these terms loosely because I don’t know of any difference between the too, it merely is what it is. The only way that good and bad comes in is the humans natural reaction to label something out of need for psychological order.
So be as the rosebush, and Be As You Are! Coming to terms with yourself is definitely something to be aware of and I’m glad you and I are able to have talks (as close we’ll get to a talk on the net) without having to worry about stepping on each others toes.
Anyway, thanks again for the post, its very insightful and full of love.
-Nick <3
A very nice comment as usual
Thank you
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