I’ve been playing lumberjack this weekend on this horrendous orange tree and some other things.
This was quite the dangerous adventure. Have you ever seen an orange tree? Those thorns are lethal, as you can see here with my fingers spanning the length of a thorn..
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Yesterday I chopped it down and took it to the road and am now happy to have that fruitless, violent thing out of my backyard and out of my life forever.
Today I tried to finish uprooting it and did other necessary things around the house. Though yesterday went smoothly, today negativity kept creeping up on me, coloring everything with this negative, hateful tone and making everything much much harder than it had to be. Fortunately I remembered something I figured out when I was just a child, before this new age positive-thinking crap today. I had figured out that I could easily achieve seemingly difficult tasks by simply thinking that it was easy and not making a big deal out of it. Better late than never, I managed to apply this technique, not exactly positive thinking, deeper than that, really knowing that it’s not a big deal, kind of like a self-hypnosis. I also asked my inner Divine Mother to destroy the Ego (negativity) that was coming up. That’s something else I’ve picked up over the years and through experience found out works well. She has those transformative powers.
I also managed to apply this sort-of self-hypnosis when I had a heart murmur in the afternoon, resulting in weakness and the need to lie down. So I managed to lay there and tell my body and mind that it will return to a state of normality, that my heart would beat normally and easily, and that everything would be fine. And it was. It’s a shame to live in negative inner states, much better to take control of the wheel and know that everything’s gonna be fine and that we just need to stop being such a baby 
Stupid tree... trees are stupid.
Chris Case
/ January 16, 2012That is a very important lesson indeed, the need to tell our self, that what we are doing is in fact easy and not worry about it. It applies to just about any area of life you can imagine.
Ultimately, anything that you are actually going to do and do well, is going to have to be made easy, in some way or another. The way to get it done is to recognize what makes doing the job easy and do it that way.
I often recognize, when I am not at my best, that I spend 300% more energy complaining and procrastinating than actually doing the job. When I keep this in my awareness, I am often far more effective. The job just “get’s done” and then there is all this free time afterwards!
searchforgnosis
/ January 16, 2012LOL, “It’s a shame to live in negative inner states, much better to take control of the wheel and know that everything’s gonna be fine and that we just need to stop being such a baby
” and later, “Stupid tree… trees are stupid.” 
I think it’s funny how sometimes, for instance when I walk and walk into something, this anger arises and thoughts like “you really had to do that, didn’t you?” (referring to the item that I went in to) pops up, like the fault was this item, like it had an intention to bump into me… 
There are many things in my daily life right now that needs to be done, but I don’t like doing it… Stop being such a baby is probably a good idea, and seeing that the problem is internal, not external.
Thanks!