Thursday, July 29, 2010

Wash Your Thoughts

“The artist does not try to identify with the colors he uses. He knows he chooses them, and applies them with a brush. So you paint your reality with your ideas in the same manner. You are not your ideas, nor even your thoughts. You are the self who experiences them. If a painter finds his hands stained with pigment at the end of a day, he can wash the stain off easily, knowing its nature. If you think that limiting thoughts are a portion of you, permanently attached therefore, you will not think of washing them off. You would behave instead like a mad artist who says, ‘My paints are part of me. They have stained my fingers, and there is nothing I can do about it’” (Roberts, 1994, p. 29).

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This passage reminded me of a recent study that shows that washing your hands after making a difficult choice can reduce any lingering inner turmoil and tension caused by making that hard decision. This finding fascinated Spike W. S. Lee, a psychology researcher at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor who said, "Maybe there is a broader phenomenon here. Anything from the past, any kind of negative emotional experiences, might be washed away."

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So wash your spirits and clear your mind, and then you can do anything and be anything you want.

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