Short story: When is a cold not a cold? When you are a Zen master

Yes, we do need to try to detach ourselves from being fully immersed in events, be they health episodes or nasty happenings in the world, as we should try to stay connected to the larger picture view, not the scene in front of us, all of the time, as we might be seeing it, with emotionally fueled eyes, and thoughts. Nature does have a calming, and soothing, effect on us, and helps to remove from us our connections to the negativities of the world.

Some people might think that we are just the body, and that our mind is just a part of it, but in most cases the body suffers more than the mind, if we cannot remove ourselves from doleful thoughts about the body. We do not need to let our mind be affected by conditions of the body, which then makes our mind a burden too, to lug around with us, in our lives. Sure, we might feel down in the mouth, and thinking slower thoughts of feeling bad, but if we can think past this to the bigger perspective view, we can see that the conditions of the body usually heal themselves, with help sometimes from physicians, and we do not need to cut off our foot, to spite our leg, and an illness that does not kill us, can be moved on from, and not carried in our mind, as a burden from then on. Even a bad disease, like diabetes, can be worked with, and depressed downing thoughts do little to help, and we should try to help ourselves as much as we can do so, for that is why we have a mind, to try to figure out how best to live with our body.

@innertalks When we see some severely crippled, we wonder how they manage their lives. However, they do not need sympathy for its own sake as the suffering is their own. They manage in their own way fighting day-to-day. Steve Hawking is a prime example and he fought till the last moment and kept his spirits high. On the other hand, a few give up easily thinking the grass is greener the other side. I notice self-made persons have a clear objective to keep fighting and forging ahead. They hardly give up. When we let our body dictate our outlook then it will not turn out positive in the end. We start drifting.

@Shiva49 Everybody has their own unique route through life, and each has a unique body, mind, and soul, combination too. We should not allow any one part of us to dictate to the other parts, but work as a unified team of oneness, as we move through life, not allowing life to unduly hold us up with aspects, and facets, of itself that we are still trying to understand more fully. All will come to us in time; God is bringing each one of us home to him in his time, and way, for us too. We will all come to better understand God, ourselves, and the world, from living fully as we can in it, with what we have, and from who we are, in any one moment of our life.

Yes, we should not try to let ourselves get bogged down from whatever we are currently suffering from. In truth, we are always bigger than our suffering ever is.

Everyone gets colds, from time to time, but they are passing, and should not define who we are. We should not be any less of a person because we have a cold.

@innertalks I do not think they define us as a person …..for a mere cold that is rediculous

@Traceyjayne We can overidentify with almost anything. Some people think their job says who they are. We are more than what we do, or experience.