The Anesthesia that totally knocks a traumatic fellow out of the consciousness of meditating on past predicament is the word ‘forget’ . A fellow that is schooled in the act of meditating on negative occurrences on a regular basis, can unlearn that act by getting engaged in a profitable venture that demands full concentration and is tasking to his/her brain tissues, as well as other muscles in his/her body. This way, the individual gets rid of spare time to start meditating on his/her problems. The only time left at the disposal of the individual is the time he/she gets his/her rest. This is the antidote to overcoming meditating on past predicaments. It is an act that fosters forgetting traumatic experiences. Pharaoh was quite aware of this secret, that as long as one gets spellbound by idleness, he/she will ponder vain thoughts – ‘eat the bread of idleness’. This prompted him to proclaim, as touching the declaration by God through His servant Moses that; Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words. (Exodus 5:6-9) Although, Pharaoh’s logic concerning the ills of indolence was right, nevertheless, for him to have considered the quest for freedom made by representatives of those he held in captivity, as vain, revealed the wickedness of his heart. If Pharaoh, a heathen monarch knew this secret, that idleness genders vain thinking, you ought to know this as well. There is a poignant true life story Joel Osteen narrated and a pragmatic analysis he gave, I will like you to ponder. Here are the details of the story as recorded by CNN: In 2003, Ralston, then 27, was climbing alone in Blue John Canyon in southeastern Utah. He told no one about his planned route, a decision he would come to regret. He had just scrambled over an 800-pound boulder when it came loose and sent the young man flying down the canyon wall. The boulder came to rest on his right hand, trapping him for five days with little food or water. There was pain. There was panic. There was the realization that, at first, I couldnt get my arm out, even though I was just thrashing my body about, he told CNN. And what followed from there was 45 minutes of just ... hurtling my body against the boulder, trying to heave and lift from beneath it to pull it maybe towards me and try to dislodge it. After struggling to come to terms with his predicament, Ralston began considering his options. Over the next several days, he drank his own urine to stay hydrated and experimented with the idea of amputating his arm with a pocketknife, but he had no way of sawing through two bones in his arm. Ralston also began using his digital camcorder to record last messages for his family. Im sorry, he told them. You guys make me proud. On the sixth day of his ordeal Ralston realized that amputating his arm was the only way he would survive. He had no tools capable of sawing through the bones in his arm, so he bent his arm down and, using his body as a lever, snapped the bones in half. I bent my arm farther and farther, and then finally, this cracking, splintering sound, kind of like a cap gun, then, POW! It echoed up and down the canyon. I knew that I had broken my bone. And yes, it hurt. It hurt a lot, he told CNN. Next, Aron carefully cut away at his arm, trying to avoid major arteries until last when he could quickly tighten a tourniquet that hed fashioned from the tubular insulation of his CamelBak, a backpack designed to hold water. Ralston likens the pain he felt when he cut the nerves in his arm to sticking his entire arm in a vat of hot magma. At the same time, that pain was just one more thing I had to do, and it was, in some sense, a very beautiful feeling, too. ... It was liberation, he told CNN…. I had to make a decision to go forward not knowing what was going to come, he told CNN. And that was important, that I took action in that moment, overcoming that fear. Today, Ralston continues to take action. With the aid of a custom-made prosthesis, Ralston recently completed a climb of nearly 23,000 feet to the summit of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest peak in South America. He says the drive to climb the next mountain is what sustains him. The Park Service later retrieved Ralstons hand, using a crew of men and a winch and jack to lift the boulder. Here is Joel Osteen’s pragmatic analysis of the aforementioned story: We all come to places like this in life, where something is over and done. There is nothing more we can do about it. We may not understand it, it may not have been fair, but none of that changes the fact that it is no longer alive. We can either hold on to it and let it drag us down and defeat us or like this young man, as difficult as it may be, we can choose to break free, move forward, so we can experience a new beginning. If something is dead in your life, don’t die with it. If something is over and done in your life, don’t hold on to it, let it go…. Sometimes, you have to take bold measures to keep making progress. If a dream died, don’t die with it, cut off the broken dream, the relationship that didn’t work out, the self-pity, the unforgiveness, the negative attitude. When you are unwilling to walk away, is where you are going to become stuck…. Let go of the ashes, quit reliving negative memories, don’t let a season of mourning turn into a lifetime of mourning, be bold to cut off whatever didn’t work out….Let it go and move forward. If you do this, you will feel a heaviness lift off of you. The decision to stop living in the past is personal. A pledge you might want to take, that will help you put off all the past years, dedicated to sobbing over occurrences of the past is this: …I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself. (Job 9:27) In the words of Joel Osteen: Quit thinking about it; quit talking about it; quit reliving all the negative things that have happened to you.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:17:20 +0000
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