Control
Image: Heather Williams, H.W., M.
CONTROL = To check the accuracy of, verify, regulate; to exert authority; to have power over; skill in the use of a tool, instrument, technique, or artistic medium
QUESTION: Do you know how to take control?
STORY: We have all experienced problems where we lose control. Instead of blaming others or denying - we must learn from our problems. This drawing tells the story about how my mom lost control of her life when she had a heart attack at age 87. I walked into the intensive care unit and saw Mom lying in bed, hooked up to so many machines that she could not talk. I sat in a chair next to her bed, held her left hand in my right hand, and after 20 minutes, I got my sketchbook and began drawing using my “other” hand. I let the pen go where it wanted to go. Mom felt like a mermaid swimming under an unknown ocean filled with fish - and then a sad spider showed up in the lower right corner. Was it my mother’s heart - gasping and struggling to live? Well, hours later, my pencil (or higher consciousness) took control and the fearful spider kinda disappeared and out came a snail who told me: “It will take time for mom to heal.” Mom lived another 8 years. We all can learn to let our Higher Consciousness take control as we move through a difficult situation.
QUOTES
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” ~ Buddha
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.” ~ Brian Tracy
“Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.” ~ Herodotus
“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.” ~ Robert E. Lee
EXERCISE
STOP.
Sit quietly.
Assume an erect posture. Sense the breath.
Imagine yourself in an ocean of difficulty.
Get your pen and paper and write words or draw lines expressing your Higher Consciousness guiding you to a new understanding.
Move forward into your day feeling LIFE’S ENERGY guiding you.