This morning I read Verse 71 from Wayne Dyer’s exceptional interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, Living the Wisdom of the Tao. The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text, written around 2500 BC, based on the teachings of Lao-tzu.
The verse is titled, Living Without Sickness, and the gist of it is this: until we get sick of living with sickness, we will remain sick. And the thing that is keeping us sick, is our thoughts.
Dyer suggests that it is our thoughts rooted in fear, anxiety, anger, hatred, worry, guilt, stress, impatience, and so on, that are at the root of our physical symptoms, and this occurs when we are centered in ego rather than divine love.
Conversely, if our thoughts emanated from love, gratitude, forgiveness, compassion, kindness, patience, etc., we would not be sick.
What Dyer doesn’t address, are the detrimental beliefs that are at the root of sick [detrimental] thoughts. This is important because our beliefs greatly influence our thoughts. From this perspective, it essential to be at peace with our past, as well as, being accepting of our present circumstances.
Also, it is important to note that when you are in the Parkinson’s state, your body is coursing with cortisol [the stress hormone] leaving you more succeptible to harmful thoughts, particularly during the wear-off rebound effect period when the meds wear off.
Despite my awareness, I regularly catch myself in negative thoughts because, admittedly, I am not fully at peace with my past … or for that matter, my present.
I have a mantra that I repeat every day that helps remind me to stay rooted in love: I am divine love. Love is within me. Love moves throughout me. Love surrounds me. Love protects me. Love emanates from every aspect of my being. I am divine love.
Also, it is my intention each day to make each moment joyful simply by being and doing and one of the things I do to accomplish this is expressing gratitude.
Keeping our thoughts positive requires constant awareness. It’s a challenge but it’s worth it!
May you be content!
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As a person experiencing the symptoms of PD, I have learned through direct experience that it is extremely important to continually stimulate the body and the mind upon waking and throughout the day!
The quality of our experience is largely determined by the quality of our thoughts! This is particularly true for anyone experiencing the symptoms of Parkinson’s. Generally speaking, if we have positive thoughts, we will have positive experiences.
I recently read Howard Shifke’s, Parkinson’s Recipe for Recovery. Shifke, as you may know, is an American lawyer who fully recovered from Parkinson’s in 2010 after being diagnosed in 2009.
In my last post, I wrote about how much I enjoy shoveling snow. I really like exercising in the fresh air! As much as I enjoy it though, it has really been messing me up, leaving me experiencing more intense symptoms! The same is true for playing golf, writing and other activities I undertake.
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