--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Peter <drpetersutphen@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- jim_flanegin <jflanegi@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Where my mind stops is when I hear about people > > > making 'mistakes'. > > > What IS a mistake, anyway? I personally couldn't > > > tell ya... > > > > Exactly. What is a mistake? It's simply a term used to > > indicate something we don't like. > > Last summer I looked back on how my life had unfolded, and I was > thankful that for all the emotional pain I endured, the choices I made > were the only reason I was happy, healthy, and still alive. Later on, > the thought occurred to me that this was merely a value judgment and > that it could have been just as perfect had I died. That's when I > ditched all the mental masturbation about "free will". Things happen > exactly as they should. Why? Because that's the way they happened. > > Alex > **** When something falls from one's hand to the floor, we perceive the occurrence as mistake. If not we wouldn't even pick the thing up.
>From a bigger perspective everything may be perfect as it is, but perceiving something as a mistake or error may activate changes in our behavioural patterns. My husband perceives me as somewhat careless. I myself usually don't see any problem with it. As long as I'm satisfied with my behaviour, there are very little chances for changes. But my husband may get even more irritated and then at some point I get frustrated about his irritation and perceive it as a mistake. And maybe at some point I may try to take his position and look at my patterns and see that I could pay a little more attention to some details I have felt to be unimportant. And only then there is some chances of becoming less sloppy. This is just a simple example how perceiving something as a mistake can lead to changes. Perceiving everything as perfect in daily life I feel to be a kind of mood making. Feeling frustrated about one's mistakes at best gives energy for a new start. I usually swear silently in my mind, when I perceive a mistake, and it helps to transform the frustration to renewed activity. Irmeli ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
