Isn’t it funny how we have made our minds believe things which are only true if we decide to think they are? Take Mondays for starters. The whole country wakes up on a Monday getting ready for work after spending the weekend doing whatever. But there is that ‘Monday feeling’ which has been described as the ‘blues’ or even songs written about how hard monday is. A few studies have even shown that Monday’s are the preferred days for suicides.
So what is the stigma attached to Mondays? Monday is just a name for a day and has no more or less power than any other day but it is the fact that everyone has been doing whatever they like over the weekend and now it is time for work again. You know how Sunday has that ’slow and restful’ feeling, then how can all that be lost in just a day? Nothing actually changes except the point of view we have allowed to become fact in our mind that Monday is the beginning of the week so it represents ‘back to work’ which most people dread.
It is a good example of how the mind can become attached to an idea, then it become our truth but actually it is nothing except fiction that we have turned into ‘our truth.’ In the middle east Friday is like Sunday and Saturday like Monday. It has the same effect on the people but it is just another day with a different name. This shows our addiction and attachment to numbers, names and material objects. This why we believe in insults and they hurt us emotionally.
Be careful what you allow to become fact in your mind because a name of a day should have no power over your thoughts or how you feel.
Yogi Cameron
on Oct 21st, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Namaste
Kickass article!Thanks Yogi Cameron.Atleast i’m totally helped out with your guidance here,because i have now got my guidance for a bad problem i’ve been having since a year or so and yesterday i was in urgent need of guidance.I just have to apply the same principles you are teaching here to my problem.I’m so relieved and grateful.
About Mondays,with me it has always been the opposite.I’ve been lonely for a very long time and so i disliked Sundays and always looked forward excitedly to Mondays.Or Sundays for me has to be spent in a mega big and exciting city with a lot of buzz or on a lovely farm or ranch.
And i too obviously have thought about why people have the blues on Mondays.I can only agree to all you say and also learn from it.If people loved the job they do and the people whom they work with,it would be joyous to go back to work after a short pause and change of the weekend.But so many,many people carry toxic vibrations around accumulated from their lifestyles that they are displeased with themselves and others because they are constanlty streaming out toxins.Therefore their thoughts are toxic too.And it’s only all about clinging on to each others toxic thoughts like a chained reaction.
So,snapping out of it by changing the mindset as you teach us here is the only way out.And to change one’s mindset involves as first the intention of wanting to make the inner change from which follows the outer change as well.And the best way of doing it is by changing our eating habits in the first place - as you tell us in your article : ” Transformation - Start with something you do everyday like eating’. ”
When you control your inner self you can control your mind too.
Besides we should always keep in our thoughts that if we were dying due to whatever reason,and we were fighting for our lives,we would be SO HAPPY for each BLESSED day!Whether it be Monday or Sunday.
(And okay,since Wednesday is hump day - i love a good hump in the midst of a busy week),and then Friday is not far away,but Monday is an exciting day.Oh no! again i’m only clinging on to ideas and clichees - all just pre-conceived thoughts and notions in my mind and has nothing to do with the truth of the universe.The universe is ALL,whatever i put into my mind returns back to me in my world.
on Oct 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 am
Nice article Yogi Cameron.I was wondering what do you think about Horoscope/ Feng Shui or something similar to it? Most time when my friends had done something wrong, they would probably giving an excuse which related to their Horoscope sign. Well, what do you think about Horoscope/ Feng Shui? Is it connected to five elements? to our body@soul too?I would love to hear the ideas/ thoughts from you. Thanks.
on Oct 24th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
In Ayurveda we stones, astrology and Vastu which is the original form of Feng Shui. All things in the Universe are relevant to some degree otherwise they would not be with us. It is one thing when things truly have an affect on us and another is when we are looking to read into everything thinking that they are affecting us. We must live a balanced life with nature for us to know the difference.
Namaste