This motivation came from a reading I did a few weeks back. I have discovered that there exist 2 types of time. The real time that is held on your wrist and the psychological time that exists in our mind. The real time is decently easy...it's what we are doing in this exact moment...this exact time frame. Whereas psychological time is the time in which the past experiences we've lived and the future ones we will live exist. HUH?!! What i'm saying is that...hmm..what am I saying...if we look back at our lives...how many of us can actually say, "fuck..what was I thinking? why did I let him or her do that to me? was I really that naiive?...why did I wear that outfit?" We can look back at our past life and truly start to see our mistakes. When we look to our future we always hold some sort of idealized state of mind..."I will lose weight by going to the gym 8 times a day and eating healthy and donating....blah blah blh" that is our future psychological time. Isn't is funny how that works out? We are seemingly holding this amazing idealized/perfect time in our minds. We are enlightened as the buddha would say....we can easily see where we have gone wrong and how we can change where we are going.
But why then...why do we then fall back into bad situations and hold these horrible habits? It is because in our real time...our present time...the ego has taken control of our voice and minds. "THE WHAT!?!?!?" ...ya know...the ego. The ego will live in the moment (sometimes the past and future too..but lets not get into that) and will force us to live out our horrible feelings. It has been designed to protect us and mold our situations. It will continue to force us to move and work in it's direction without thought. This is why we are still obese and unable to stick to our plan...this is why we still hold prejudice and bias...this is why we are living the way we are.
We must learn to live in the uncomfortable...we must learn to hold ourselves to a different level of expectation and build the "mental toughness" that resiliency to overcome our hurt and pain.
Build your mental toughness.
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