Good Monday Morning!
I hope you had a restful weekend with time to decompress from life’s sometimes frenetic pace. As the weather changes, so too are the restrictions of the last year. Transition is fraught with frustrations and unknowns and offers opportunities for fascination about life, our next projects, our moods, and what to do with our free time.
Sometimes we become frustrated because we can’t seem to break an old habit or pattern. Perhaps a year of relative isolation has rendered our time management skills ineffective. Maybe we have seemingly hopeless difficulties with family or friends. Or, it might be that we’re feeling helpless, underutilized, unappreciated, or demeaned at our workplace.
Harnessing the power of frustration may seem daunting. However, if we take an honest look at frustration and approach it as a wonderment, we may be able to realign our thoughts with a more positive outcome. In this way, we turn our automatic frustration into an exercise in fascination with how we’re able to not only change the impact of our feelings but adopt a new positive trajectory for the ideas and patterns that shape our responses.
Jim Rohn states it this way:
Dr. Joe Dispenza is a contemporary practitioner who specializes in neuroscience, brain function, brain imaging, longevity, and memory formation and learning. He advises that “. . . every time you learn something new, you make a new synaptic connection in your brain . . . learning is forging new connections in your brain.”
Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman and author, is most well-known for his book The Power of Positive Thinking. One of the noteworthy thoughts credited to him is “Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.”
The thoughts from these men display fascination in action.
Scripture reminds us:
“. . . casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5 (NKJV)
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” Philippians 4:8 (NIV)
These are directives for the process of positive thought. The words help us realize our ability to take captive negativity, such as frustration, and fill our minds with positive words that affirm and transform. Pretty fascinating when you think about it. You don’t have to live with frustration but can create wonderment and fascination simply by introducing new words and thoughts into your internal vocabulary.
This week would be an excellent time to transform our minds. Begin by wondering what new concepts can replace old defaults – perhaps holding space for the goodness of our challenging relationships, substituting our frustrations with a fascination for the origins of the others’ challenges. Maybe there’s room for pondering that difficult work situation turning the ongoing frustrations into a dialog of wondering. There might be a customer or client that requires a new perspective for an old frustration. You may be the catalyst in any of these scenarios to transform habitual frustration into a new era of fascination.
If you take time this week to consider replacing frustration with fascination, you may find transformation to be a pleasant experience!
Be Well & Be Blessed!
Lucinda
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