If you were enjoying a casual stroll through a park and someone walked up to you with 50 pounds of garbage in a sack and insisted, “Here, carry this garbage around for the rest of the week,” would you acquiesce to their demand? Probably not… You have better things to do than carry around a collection of garbage.
Yet, people often do carry around offal that doesn’t belong to them. Perhaps not physically, but mentally.
For instance, has a co-worker got riled up and mad at your office, vented all their frustration and anger to you and expected you to get angry and upset too? If so, and you do, then you just agreed to carry around their mental mess. Whereas the wiser choice would be to see the supremacy of the one Mind at that office establishing harmony and peace for everyone, and why that person can calm down and love more instead of being angry.
Or, has a family member suffered from a disease, and medical belief whispered into your mind, “You will inherit the same?” If you agree, then mortal mind just handed you a sack full of garbage to carry around, perhaps for the rest of your life. And this is not necessary. The suggestion can be silenced with spiritual truth and prevented from having any harm through an understanding that all inheritance is from God, never from man.
So, we must be wise about what we accept as true. When mortal mind tries to hand us a set of beliefs that are not in our best interest to accept, they should be rejected. We don’t have to carry them around and endure burden as a result. We can live free! We can say, “No.”
Thank you Evan. This is true in so many ways.
From a purely secular perspective, my local newspaper ran an editorial that pointed out that due to having access to the internet, today’s society should be the most informed of all time since we can easily look up the facts about any subject. But in reality, the internet has become a tool for many to spread misinformation so we can easily be duped into accepting something as true that is actually false.
The openly biased news media of today is also guilty of spreading misinformation in the guise of truth as a way of promoting a certain ideology.
For example, I was chatting with my next door neighbor on Sunday and she made the statement that “the economy today is bad”. I responded with “Why do you think the economy today is bad?” She had a blank look on her face when I asked that. She couldn’t come up with a single reason why she believed the economy today is bad (i.e. unemployment is about the lowest its been in 50 years, the stock market is at an all time high, corporate profits are close to an all time high, etc.). She had simply accepted the idea that some political candidates are spreading to make us believe the economy is depressed when the truth is that economic conditions are currently relatively good. I’m not saying everything is perfect, I’m just saying my neighbor was feeling badly about the economy when in fact she couldn’t come up with a single reason for feeling that way. To me that showed how carefully we need to watch what we accept as our own thinking, as Evan pointed out in his blog today, to avoid feeling badly due to carrying around the “garbage ideas” others have tricked us into carrying.
What a great way to express this concept. Thank you for this healing treatment for freeing oneself from another’s garbage or error in thought, Evan.
Yes, we do not an extra baggage and we do this by our Spiritual Awareness and maintain our expressions with the thought of Loving.
What a great message! Thanks for sharing it.
And the analogy of how the news media gives us more garbage is right on too, especially since people tend to only listen to or read those outlets they slant towards already. Then they believe it, and never get any other perspective. The Christian Science Monitor is less biased than most, which I appreciate a lot, and offers coverage of the positives that come out of situations, which most others do not; but it is still biased about some issues.
When it comes to garbage, our motto is No Dumping!
Another wonderfully helpful reminder to get information from
the divine Mind, not just the news pundits!
Thank you Evan, and commenters, and especially yours, Brian. So…telling.
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WOW! Was this thought healing for me. Several years ago I got caught up in an office “three ring circus” that defies even an explanation. A quite simple Receptionist job turned into a Nightmare. No matter what I did or said, no matter how much Metaphysical work I did it just got worse and worse until one day I gave my two week notice. I told the General Manager that I really had no idea just what the problem was but I could not hold any sense of peace or calm and dreaded coming to work. Recently this incident had come back to my thought as I still felt guilty about it and thought there must have been something I could have done to heal the situation. Bingo ! Here came the answer, right away I knew it was the answer to my prayer. I had been carrying around other peoples garbage tryin to fix it. Yes, there are things I could have done differently, aren’t we brilliant in hindsight? But, what was so healing for me was that I had not caused the problems nor could I heal other people’s unhappiness. I had very clearly been dragging around other people’s stuff. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
What a powerful and thoughtful message, and thanks to Brian for your example. I’ve come to mute not only the advertisements but other messages on TV that I just don’t feel the need to take into my consciousness.
A brilliant reminder of Truth in 4 words – garbage in – garbage out!
BRIAN, you are right on. Ask folks to explain their beliefs, and usually they have not thought beyond their pronouncement. Don’t accept garbage.
Thank you Evan!!! This is so true. I’ve often asked people ” where would you rather be, in Hawaii or sitting at the local garbage dump”. It’s really quite easy to answer, would we rather be in God’s fabulous, pure and beautiful atmosphere (Hawaii or anywhere lovely) where the view is amazing (to barely describe it) or basically at the dump, where it is disgusting, rotting and putrid, i.e. False beliefs or decaying thoughts. It’s such a no brainier where I want to place my thoughts each day. In the womb of Mind, or the tomb of material life.
When I am thinking straight, I usually acknowledge for the person that they seem upset and listen. Nobody really wants your opinion. You really can’t fix anything for someone. It’s their Dorothy moment and they have to figure it out themselves. I think the best we can do is not join them or add to the mess. What a relief to remember God is in charge.
Thank you Nadine, that’s brilliant!!
Thank you, Evan, for that great, liberating message. To regard error as garbage, rubbish, stuff and nonsense is so helpful and freeing.
Thank you for the reminder of watching what we want to carry around in thought.
Loved your CS lecture last year in Atlanta.
Thank you.