The Art Of Self-Control

Can you control yourself? I mean can you set your mind and control what you do and say in such a way that you are aware? How many times have you sat in front of the TV or in a movie and shoved popcorn into your face mindlessly? How many times have you had more drinks than you should have, said something you shouldn’t have or done something you knew you shouldn’t do?
Controlling yourself is intrinsic to health and happiness. If we look around, when we are out and about, we can see how many people are wider and rounder than they should be. They have self-control issues around food.
A lot of people are really unhappy because their mind is full of unhappy thoughts that torment them continuously. They have got into the habit of letting their mind rule their lives. So everything they dread, or dislike or fear is popping up in their lives like a room full of jack-in-the-boxes. They have self-control issues around their thoughts.
When we respond with action or emotion to our outer world we are giving power to disharmony and reactionary energies. Instead, if we went within and observed what is going on through the eyes of God – through meditation, we would have an entirely different understanding and reaction to what is going on in our lives. This is self control observing situations and coming up with appropriate solutions which are objectively bases without the reaction and emotion.
By using self-control, you are deliberately creating what we consciously recognize as appropriate. What is appropriate is not necessarily without bumps in the road. It is our best learning medium, one that we can rise to and grow in ways that we did not consider possible. These challenges stretch our concepts of how much we can actually love ourselves and support our own growth in a way that does not trigger fear, anxiety and other negative emotions.
By practicing self-control, life becomes more unqualified with less of the push me-pull you that brings drama to the fore. Life just is and the creative element becomes more clear and the process more pure. Ease seems to slide into life is such a way that is just nice. It’s like a vacation from disharmony and chaos. I’m in!

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