THE MYTH OF CONTROL

It’s no wonder that the words to the serenity prayer offer so much insight, eloquence, and wisdom to one suffering from the most tumultuous of internal demons found in self service and preservation. It’s an epistle, if you will, to help shape a fleeting effort to CONTROL life in a manner inconsistent with an opposite reality.  When we seek to CONTROL, we give our power to a predictable habit of futility. We seek for gain. We seek to eliminate the pain of the present by casting it on another. We seek to manipulate the flow of progress to accommodate the lack thereof.   IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, we’re talking CONTROL as a contra-concept to OUT OF CONTROL. I say contra-concept, because sometimes what one would normally consider the cure, in reality might actually become the curse.   The only things in our CONTROL are the choices we make. That’s it. And thus the dichotomy of being OUT OF CONTROL, is the reality that we are in complete CONTROL based on the gift of choice. From Jay Shetty’s book Think Like a Monk: “You can only keep up the myth of your own importance for so long. If you don’t break your ego, life will break it for you.”  Are you willing to break the glass ceiling you’ve created for yourself? Hide and seek is a game not intended for self sabotage. Remember that growth is always a choice. Let us find joy in the work of becoming better tomorrow than we were today.