Endlessly Editing

Extrapolation
Introspecting writing can become an endlessly editing project. Once you isolate a thought, you can extrapolate it to your heart’s delight.

Elucidation
Attempting to put your confusion, lack of understanding in words, can lead to clarity. It is often said, that when you define the problem, your problem is fifty percent solved. Describing the problem gives one perspective and distance from the difficulty. The problem can then lose its emotional power over the psyche.

Edification
If you ever wanted a teacher, a mentor, a leader to tell you what you most wanted to hear, you can create that ideal individual in print, on paper, on the screen or in your mind.

Become the teacher you most wanted to have.

You can explore and experiment with words until you have crafted that coaching ideal that will uplift, inspire, and delight your soul. In fact, that is a technique for attracting what you want. Define your desired object, thing or person in elaborate detail, until you can see it your mind’s eye, feel it in your mind’s hand, hear it and smell it.

Exercise your creative imagination and visualize the circumstances, connections, possibilities that could inform your mind, and consciousness with the understanding that you most need to succeed. If you are at a loss, and don’t know what to do about a certain situation, apply your mind to ask the questions that will bring to you the answers, the strengths, the powers, the intelligence and wisdom that you need to succeed in coping with the issue.

Regeneration
You can use your imagination to envision your ability to confront and overcome every circumstance that comes your way. You have within you whatever you need to succeed, all you have to do is expend the requisite energy, generate the mandatory enthusiasm with what-if possibility thinking, and persistently spend the required time until you have achieved your goal. If you feel that you have exhausted your resource of ideas, imagine hidden mental treasures of inventiveness, and power coming instantly to your aid. Even if you find it difficult to believe in yourself, you can continue to cultivate the desire to succeed and that desire can become strong enough to pull your goal closer to you. As it approaches, new understandings will empower you to move on. Every time you keep on going, regardless of the discouraging setbacks, obstacles, and failures you will be strengthening your resolve, and getting closer and closer to victory.

Elaboration
When you have found a positive idea that uplifts and inspires you, don’t stop there, add adjectives, adverbs, to it. Grow your enlightened notion into a golden purpose. Elaborate on your vision until it becomes unselfishly comprehensive, profoundly deep, until it expands your horizons, heightens your aspirations and instills a long lasting sense of purpose and connection with an eternal, infinite design.

A Challenge, not an Obstacle
Just deciding to regard my obstacle, my problem, my difficulty as a challenge that I am prepared, willing to confront and conquer, can and will provide me with the enthusiasm to think constructively about it, vanquish it, diminish its power.
If that fails I immerse myself in something else. If my mind continues to suffer in despondency because of the negative influence of a persistent situation or condition, I read an inspirational book, or listen to a podcast, or watch a movie. I attempt to enrich my mind with other perspectives, other ideas, other dimensions of knowledge, to expand my world, and lift myself above and beyond the petty and pesky problems that circumstances, people, or pressures can precipitate.

Exercise: My mind is…
Write twenty sentences or spend five minutes writing sentences that begin with:
“My mind is…”
In this and all journaling exercises try to be positive, optimistic, upbeat, resourceful. Think big. Think outside the box of your own self-concept. Think beyond what you consider to be your limitations. For instance:
“?My mind is a powerful resource, able to generate powerful forces to help me overcome any and all difficulties that come my way.”
“My mind is empowered to perform beyond its wildest limits.”