There's a saying that we aren't human beings having a spiritual experience, but rather spiritual beings having a human experience.
We had a conversation with our community recently where a participant shared how she's struggled in her relationship with her sister for her entire life. What was interesting is how she said in a moment it all changed for her and she was free of the tension and stress she had felt her whole life. She said it was a miracle and that it occurred as a result of a simple insight she had.
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And how many times have we all experienced how something that seemed so inherent to a situation and would never change, suddenly did? How does that happen?
There is a certain logic to it. It's like there's the world we live in and it is always following the laws of nature. The laws of gravity and thermodynamics, etc. These laws don't change, so the same situation always creates the same outcome.
But our experience of this world, our experience of life, doesn't happen in this outside world, but rather within us.
And that inner world doesn't function from the laws of nature. It unfolds freshly and spontaneously new in each moment. The experience we're always having is related to the outside world, but what creates the experience we have is the interpretation and meaning we give it.
And that's how it's possible for something like a lifelong relationship to just change on a dime. Because our life, what creates the experience of our life, does not follow the laws of cause and effect like the world around us. Our experience of life is created by the power of thought within us. So, when our thinking changes, our experience changes.
Fresh, new thought about something always creates a fresh new experience no matter how often we've been in the same situation before. It's like it really is a miracle. How can the same situation, something we may have been experiencing for 70 years suddenly be completely different? It really is miraculous how this can happen, isn't it?
Keep in mind there's a difference between the change that occurs in our experience coming from an insight and that coming from a conscious decision to have a different thought. Insight changes the glasses we're looking at life through, whereas positive thinking or reframing changes the words or context we're seeing life as.
Insight produces lasting change, where positive thinking or reframing produces a change regarding that situation for that moment.
If you have any questions about this, leave us a comment below and we'll get back to you.
The recipe this week is a Peach Pudding. It's peach season here in the Okanagan and we had lots of fresh, ripening peaches from our friend's organic orchard last week. So we were looking for new ways to use them and came up with this delicious peach pudding using sweet potatoes as a base. Give it a try. It's a real keeper.
To your Amazing Health,
Connie and Bill
Peach Pudding
- 8 medium dates
- 1½ cups cooked sweet potato
- 2½ cups peaches
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
Add dates to food processor and process to a medium chunkiness, but don’t let the dates start to ball up.
Add the sweet potato, peaches and cinnamon and blend well.
SUGGESTION: Top with slices of fresh peaches and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
NOTE: This pudding freezes well into a delicious Nice Cream. Freeze it as it is, or fold in whole fruit or nuts to add a little something extra.