We continuously create our reality by our choices, moment to moment, maintaining harmony by following our conscience and acting for the highest good. An open mind allows us to see many options.

The reward for continually upgrading our conscience, by keeping an open mind, is that we become more conscious of our harmonious, self-effulgent nature.

We are being courageous in living according to our conscience when it would be easy to hide from others what we are doing. It is easier to slide down the hill of life, maintaining or digressing in our current state of consciousness, than to follow the hard climb up the path of what we know is right.

Meditation
Choose a quiet place to sit and begin even and regular breathing such as 2 counts to breathe in and 2 counts to breathe out. Keep up this even rhythm throughout your meditation without actually doing the counting.

After reflection on the following thoughts, write out any new insights in your journal for contemplation at a later time and for future review.

Think on this: Ups and downs are tempered, transformed into awareness of happiness, harmony, by balancing mental with physical activity. When we take charge we enjoy being happy and feeling good.

Moodiness closes our mind to options. Moods are formed in our mind. Our mind and body an interlocking unit one affecting the other. We are free to change a thought, mood, or attitude by exerting will power to substitute positive attitudes; engaging in physical activity such as brisk walking, or meditating for a few minutes to allow the natural harmony to arise most easily in consciousness through the stilling of the body.

We also get a positive result when choosing the best way out of a bad situation. When outer circumstances are bleak we preserve our sense of inner harmony by following our conscience; doing what is best now, insuring a better future.

Using this principle, we maintain our natural ease. It is our choice, by will power, to follow the direction of our conscience. The more easeful we are feeling from following the direction of our conscience, the more good solutions come through to our consciousness, and an open mind serves as a picture window to see most clearly.

"An open mind
Is allowing the widest view of the world
From which to make the best choice."

Article and photo credit Susan Kramer

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