While touring the Lewis and Clark Caverns in Montana last month, our guide frequently pointed out flowstone. Flowstone is rock formed by water dripping or trickling over a cave surface leaving calcium deposits behind. Over thousands and millions of years, the flowstone formation grows larger from the minerals left behind creating often a very impressive display.
The sight of trickling water, which appeared very clear to the eye, creating sometimes monstrous formations was mind-bending. Where nothing appeared to be happening in the short term, something was happening in the long run.
I thought about metaphysical lessons to be learned.
Do we ever allow flowstone mental-rocks to form in thought? I asked. These mental formations could be either good or bad.
For example, suggestions like, “I’m not very good at remembering things,” or “Life is hard,” or “Health is vulnerable,” or “I’m fragile,” or “I’m at a disadvantage,” and more limiting claims, may at first not appear to be any big deal when considered. But these beliefs, when allowed to trickle through thought for decades, leave deposits behind that build and build like flowstone.
The reverse effect can occur as well. Christian Science is fabulous in this regard, for Christian Science teaches us to hold perfect ideals in thought. Spiritual truths like, “I am a perfect child of God. I am healthy and whole as God made me. I’m fully provided for. I do not lack. I have eternal life. Health is permanent.” And more, trickling through thought for decades has an extremely positive benefit. At first, to the uneducated sense, declaring oneself to be a perfect child of God may sound farfetched and illusory. But it’s a fact, and even though not understood in the beginning, leaves “deposits” behind in thought that build over the decades for a cumulative good effect.
So, I’ve been watching more closely any flowstone developing in my thought. Is it good or not so good? Does the trickle need to be sped up, or shut down?
One flowstone belief I’ve noticed needs curtailing more is the belief of aging. As the calendar pages have flipped in my life, I’ve noticed more fears, not my own, coming from all directions in the media and from personal conversations suggesting a decline of health accompanies advancing years. This is not fact, but fiction. But if allowed to trickle through consciousness, as water over flowstone runs, builds into a seeming reality. A stream of belief that definitely needs to be dammed up and stopped!
So, is there any flowstone in your thought that needs to be reversed, or contrari-wise, better appreciated?
This is great – especially in regard to ageing. Just this weekend my husband and I were asked, as we bought tickets to a concert, if we’d like the ‘senior’ discount! And then at church, (a number of new ‘younger’ people are now attending,) there were several comments to the effect that all of ‘us’ were great but it was so nice to see younger people appear! I’ve been feeling like somehow we’ve passed a benchmark in life (definately not with a capital ‘l’) when we weren’t looking! I’d love to see you blog more about how to deal with this heavy world thought – I guess we need to be more firm that ‘thine age shall be clearer than the noonday’ as the Bible says. I’m thinking that if WE are convinced of this ourselves, we’d run into others perceptions regarding being ‘senior’ less and less…
Wow!
You must think in spiritual terms most of the time.
I’ve been through Lewis & Clark Caverns many times and never got all this out of it.
It’s pretty cool to see it again from a higher perspective….. thanks for the insights.
I’ve been a little depressed about this whole belief of aging too. Recently, I’ve noticed how several strangers have made comments like “what sweet grandchildren you have” about my children! Then, going to the grocery store on Wednesdays have become unpleasant because the cashier will inevitably ask me if I want the 5% senior discount.
The interesting thing is that it seems like I have been experiencing more and more physical problems typically related to old age since these comments have become flowstones in my thought.
It’s never too late to reverse those flowstone lies! They are not permanent or fixed. They are dissolvable with Life. Identify with Life, with eternal freshness and newness, and people will see those qualities in you more clearly.