Short story: John's visit to his local doctor.
By emptychair
@innertalks (23744)
Australia
July 12, 2020 12:42am CST
John was having a hard time in his life, and his health problems didn't help either.
John went to see his local doctor, Doctor Maxweel Goyture.
The doctor said to John,
"You look a bit down in the tooth, today, John."
He had a way of his messing up these sayings, every time that he tried to use one. He always put his foot in his mouth, instead of the right word, that the saying, was supposed to use.
John's doctor told John that,
"Life brings many reasons for pain and worry, but the fact that it does bring these shows us that they are but conditions of life, which the person receiving these conditions can either take into themselves by worry, or leave them at the door, by simply not letting them in past their mind to influence them unduly by them."
"Thanks, Doc," said John.
"Problems are mind-conditioners. They will cause your mind to sink into its condition called worry, if you let them."
"Then if you sink down too, you forget about the whole mind, and live in this small conditional part of it then instead."
"Embrace all of your mind, do not let it brace you into only one small part of it instead."
"Thanks, Doc," again, said John.
And, John left his doctor's office, in his whole mind, not as he had come into it before, only locked into one room/compartment of his mind, by his worries.
John left with a smile, in his step, not with a weight, on his mind.
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John's doctor was only young, but he spoke to John with a seasoned wisdom.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
12 Jul 20
Your life would be filled with pains and worries if you don't care to protect it. It's you who could make or unmake yourself.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
13 Jul 20
Yes, the bottom line of our life, is always up to us to jump over, but a strategy given to us by others, can give us some ideas, sometimes too.
We are all here to help each other, in some ways, in our lives, I think too.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
13 Jul 20
@Nakitakona Yes, we have to watch this mirror, though, and make sure that the way that we act, is the way that we really want to be acting, and that we are not just mirroring someone else's reaction, now mirrored inside of us too.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
13 Jul 20
@innertalks You're right. The reactions or the manner how we are treated is the mirror of how we deal him too.
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@Shiva49 (28394)
• Singapore
12 Jul 20
Yes, we all feel down in the dumps or mouth at times but how we deal with them matters.
I just count my blessings, things could have turned out much worse if not for some lucky breaks I have had.
I am one who can look at myself from the outside, separating myself physically, and see as a third person.
This has happened a couple of times and then an inner voice tells me - this too shall pass.
What I go after is not worth dying for and the alternatives would turn out the better options in the long run.
The virus has flattened the divide between the rich and poor and all are under house arrest the world over!
None is spared from the reality - no one.
"Fools, Who Came To Scoff, Remained To Pray" just to use a quotation - siva
President Donald Trump paid a visit to wounded service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Saturday and wore a mask after months of refusing to be seen doing so in public.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
12 Jul 20
That's a great thing to do, to detach from our problems, and look at them from the third person perspective, if we can do that.
We are not our problems: we are far bigger than them, or what they could ever be.
The poet Rumi, once said,
“Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.”
I could add this line to what he said too:
"The apple falls from the branch, not from the roots, and yet its roots are in the roots."
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@Shiva49 (28394)
• Singapore
12 Jul 20
@innertalks I think life reveals itself from every angle, experience we go through, everyone we meet, everything we see. How much we are able to assimilate depends more on our approach and lifestyle.
I also feel we go through similar emotions and thereby able to understand, appreciate, where others come from. Then we leave with different grades and and the fulfillment from the ride differs too.
Our creator does not differentiate in terms of the varied experiences everyone goes through - siva
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
12 Jul 20
@Shiva49 I read somewhere on the net:
"We can turn toward whatever arises. No moment of life is unworthy of us, or wrong."
Everything, every experience, can serve us then.
Yes, the way we see things either brings us light, or darkness.
There is no darkness in God, except for that that which we cover his light over with, and that's always only ever with our own darkened ideas.
We either see light in everything, or the darkness we put there ourselves.
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