Newsitis

May 22nd, 2017

Newsitis is the crippling disease that affects more and more people every year. They wake up thinking they are feeling good, even grateful for being alive and beauty seems to abound. Unknowingly, they walk out to the kitchen and without a moment’s hesitation their hand reaches for the remote and instantly they are stricken by newsitis. 

Their blood pressure rises, their forehead wrinkles and their eyes squint. The thoughts of gratitude and beauty, so fresh in their minds, are eaten away by every word from the TV. They turn from the TV and fire up their phone and laptop. More of the same! Confirmation of the sad, sad state of the world. 

Memorizing the news articles that are most inline with their cognitive bias, they look forward to spreading their outrage and distaste to anyone who will agree. Newsitis, a terrible affliction. Is there a cure?

Yes! The great saints, masters and enlighten ones have been touting the cure for millenniums. They don’t get much air time but their words can be found by any seeker. Their words are few but the explanation of their words are many. Forget the explanations and just read the few. Many are like this…

There is great love, light and beauty in this world. Focus on these things. 

Stay away from comparisons. You and everyone else are going to be different at different times. 

If you can’t find harmony, create it.

Don’t look back with today’s eyes and experience and judge your past. You didn’t have the ability to see the same signs back then as you do now.

Love everyone. Not for them but for you.

Know the difference between the good passion of creating and the destructive passion of destroying. They both feel alive.

When you get hurt, you can grow from the lesson without holding on to the pain.

Loving yourself means choosing better thoughts.

Never make a bad time worse.

Smile more. Frown less.

Newsitis strikes the unconscious more often than any other group. Don’t catch it and if you catch it don’t spread it. The right thoughts can cure you. Sit still with thoughts of love and betterment until it passes.You are love and love is your immunity.  

  

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 Patrick McBride 
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Receiving

May 15th, 2017

“Give, give of your money, give of your time. Give and you will be rewarded” they say but it is unnecessary to work on this because you do give. You have been a very giving person your whole life. You give to many people who have less than you and even to those who have more than you. You give advice. You give prayers and tears and food and clothes. You give and that’s not the problem. 

The problem is that you suck at receiving. You are terrible at it. You can’t even take a compliment without diminishing it with your response. You say you want more so that you can give more but what about you?

They say if you take you are selfish. If you want for yourself you are self centered. If you put yourself first you are narcissistic and ego driven. Bullhockey!

If you are a parent and you sacrifice everything and I mean everything for your children what is the message you give them? “I am not worth it and other people are. When you grow up remember to sacrifice everything because you won’t be worth it either.”

If you are in a relationship and you give, give, give, give, give without receiving what happens? You become bitter and depressed and the other person gets your permission to be selfish and take, take, take.

If you are at work and you give endlessly without compensation what happens? You are expected to give more and more until you finally burn out and are easily replaced.

The time has come for you to practice receiving with open arms. The time has come for you to say “Thank you!” and then shut up when someone compliments you. The time has come for you to tell your children “Excuse me but I need to do something for me”. The time has come to get a new job because since you have been giving 150% every day if you scale back to 100% it’s going to seem like you are goofing off. Get a new job and give in relationship to your compensation.

If you wake up and find that you have been giving in your relationship a whole lot more than you have been getting it’s time to say “Hasta La Vista, Baby” because that person didn’t care enough to know that you had been giving so much and getting back so little and they were selfishly okay with that.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life may be a trite saying but it is also irrefutably true. You are not wrong for wanting more but you are wrong for accepting less. Open your heart, your mind and your soul to accepting all that life is trying to give you. Today is the day that you start unabashedly receiving all the blessings, grace and love you deserve. You can only give what you have and starting today it’s time for you to have more. Open and stay open. 

Remember, you are a very, very good person who is amazing and wonderful and truly deserving of all the blessings life has for you. 

  

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 Patrick McBride 
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Hope

May 8th, 2017

There is never a dawn that is darker than the night. Each and every dawn brings light. Sometimes it’s cloudy and heavily overcast but it’s always brighter than the night that preceded it. Sometimes the dawn comes with such clarity and brilliance that it stuns the senses and we stand in awe of such magnificence, warmth and beauty.

There is something else in our life that is just as remarkable as the dawn. It rises when we do and sometimes it is foremost in our thoughts and sometimes it rests quietly in the background.

It is in our life to dispel the darkness just like the dawn does. It shows up without a ritual, a spell or even a wish. It stands ever ready to pull us from the darkness. It is a force that shines through impossibility like the dawn shines through the clouds. It is called by many names in many cultures and we call it Hope.

Hope allows us to look at the darkness and to feel that something will be along soon to make it disappear. Hope is that feeling that disputes what we see, what we are told. Hope is the power that turns our thoughts and imagination to possibilities instead of perceived inevitabilities. Hope is the unseen hand that pulls us from the edge of the abyss. 

When we throw ourselves into the sea of despair, hope is the life jacket we forget we had on. Shun it again and again and hope will still show up. Let reason and logic cast it aside and it will return like the invincible fighter it is. 

When the deepness of the darkness isolates us from finding a way out it is hope that lights the candle. A candle will not illuminate our whole path but it will illuminate the next step and the next step after that. And when those steps lead us to the dawn of a new, better day, hope will again rest quietly in the background, always ready.

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What’s Wrong?

May 1st, 2017

We are obsessed with “What’s Wrong?” and it’s ruining our lives. “What’s wrong with my job?”. What’s wrong with my child, my parent, my co-worker, my dishwasher, my resume, my shoes, my etc., etc.,etc.?

We want to be ahead of any failures. We want to head troubles off at the pass. We want to nip things in the bud. In other words, we want to deal with little problems and not big ones. Somehow we believe that if we stay constantly alert to “What’s Wrong?” we will catch that cold before it turns into pneumonia or we will get new tires before we have a flat. And you know what? We are right.

We do catch things early and we do sidestep more ominous problems and we do see signs and portents about our relationships, our job and even our gums. We get so good at this that we decide early on to be even more vigilant, to fish with an even a finer net. Our thinking is that done perfectly, we can catch everything early and big problems will be obsolete.

There are two major difficulties with this thinking. First, every crisis in our life does not give a warning. People and relationships die suddenly. Misfortune comes like a sudden, sunny day thunderstorm. Stuff happens without warning. Secondly, staying constantly on alert and watching for “What’s Wrong?” blinds us completely to “What’s Right?”.

When we no longer focus on “What’s Right?” we miss the triggers and prompts for gratitude. We miss the beauty. We miss the miracles. We miss the extraordinary. We miss those things that start out badly but turn out marvelously. We miss letting some things work out on their own. Pretty soon we stop missing what we are missing and the world, our world, turns an ugly shade of gray.

​​​​​​​We live in a world of amazing people and miraculous events. We also live in a world of terribly acting people and horrific events. This is life and one way or another we are destined to live it all, the good and the bad. Be aware of the bad. Be oh so ever grateful for the good and get a net with bigger holes so that you can just let some things pass right through you. You will soon find that sometimes letting something go is way easier than trying to figure out “What’s Wrong?” with it.

Remember that anytime you need a little boost, a little more light in your world all you have to do is ask yourself “What’s Right?” and you’ll find plenty.

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 Patrick McBride 
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