Meeting Aesclepius

I listened and practiced the Meeting Aesclepius exercise this week and found it to be a very good meditation for empowering my inner healer. There are so many great discoveries when you are learning about raising your level of consciousness and this weeks exercise was another exciting discovery. What I have found over the past 4 years of working on my consciousness and witnessing mind is that as I get better at witnessing my random and ego driven thinking I can refocus and keep those negative thoughts out of my mind. Worry, anxiety, stress, and other negativities that affect our minds have such an incredible impact on our overall health including our physical health. Being able to shut that negativity down from the source is such a powerful tool that everyone should practice and harness if they truly want to live a happy stress free life. As the exercise tells you however is that the road to achieving this effectively takes practice and doesn't happen overnight. The mind is a very powerful and can take over all of your emotions if you fail to witness it in a stressful situation. One tool that really helps me is thinking about past stressful situations and considering how I became stressed by visualizing negative outcomes that actually never materialized. We over think how future scenarios will unfold and when they do unfold it is not at all the way we envisioned it. We cannot control the future so stressing about it is a futile and pointless action that creates suffering in our lives. Live in the now!