A theme park is a microcosm of life itself within a safe, controlled environment. There are haunted houses to scare you, roller coasters to give you a thrill, and merry go rounds to enjoy. There are also queues to be patient in, other people to interact with, and the weather to enjoy or endure.
The funny thing is about a day in a theme park is that we automatically suspend our thinking and prepare to spend a day in fantasy, yet we are fundamentally experiencing life as we do in ‘the real world’. We experience fear, frustration, adrenalin, cold, warm. Yet, it’s all ok, because we are having a day out.
Essentially we are feeling the same feelings but because our thinking about it is different, we feel differently. A supermarket queue is no different to the queue to the biggest rollercoaster. A car pulling out in front of you on the way to work causes the same adrenalin rush as the roller coaster hurtling towards the ground. The ghost sitting next to you on the ghost train is no different to the feeling of your boss calling with a grumpy tone to ask for a meeting.
The feelings are the same, but the meaning we place on them is different therefore giving us a different experience of reality.
What I would like to suggest to you is that your life is no more than a theme park. The feelings we experience in the course of a day have as much or little meaning as we give them. They also require as much or as little action as we decide.
You are free to feel scared, impatient or exhilarated without that being a reason to call any day bad or good, just as you do at the theme park. The experience flows through, and you walk towards the next ride/activity.
The nature of life is that it happens despite our efforts, wants, needs or wishes. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. Or, the ride chugs up, it halts, it loops, it goes high, it goes low.
Realising the power of Thought allows us to see we are all on the rollercoaster, and no matter how long you are left suspended upside down in the air, you won’t fall out. No matter how fast you are hurtling towards the ground, you aren’t going to crash. No matter how long it stops for, it will start again, for sure.
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