Mind Muscle

 I have been working a lot of developing my mind muscle. I have been working out my mind to solve problems and thinking more positively. Now I am not talking about math problems, but everyday issues to big event issues. 

I remember as a apprentice electrician I was working with my journeyman and I was noticing a lot of problems we were facing. I brought up all these problems to him and he told me something that stuck. "It is not a bad skill to have to find the problems, but you are only focusing on the issues and not giving me any solutions" I found multiple problems and solved none. I was just pointing out problems instead of trying to shoot out ideas to fix the problems. I have been looking at everything in a new light. I have been more actively solving issues in my life.

 I want to lose weight: join a gym(which I did) really control what I put in my body. I want to be cleared to go back to work by my brain doctor: do physio exercise and take any working opportunity at home, push myself methodically. Thinking this way is a muscle that needs constant work and can be easily forgotten.

I have been practicing positive thinking as well. It is a muscle that is very weak right now. I have really pumped up my negative thinking. I could bench press 500lbs with the negative mind muscle. I have been recently put in a situation where I have had to really put in the mental effort to find the great thing that are happening for the sake of my father. Right now I need to be the beacon of hope in these dark times for him. It has really open my eyes in how easy it is to think negatively. Me and my father can spot negative things 100 kms away from us, but miss the happy miracles happening right in front of us. 

I have been practicing that change will happen bad or good. I have been learning even in the dark times there is always light. Without the bad things in life I would not know what was good. Yin Yang is my absolute favorite symbol, because it always reminds me of the existing of good and evil; one cannot exist without the other.  

Sifu Langner