Today someone I know sent me a lovely passage of encouragement, the crux of it saying:

“Believe that you can get through anything, and you will always prevail”.

Being that I am up against keeping my life from sounding like a country and western sad song, and that I refuse to give into that type of outlook, this little note could not have come at a better time.

It’s ironic to me that one can cruise along through the day or week or weeks and feel just fine — operating safely within routine to get kids off to school, self off to work, and then the reverse basically carrying on the routines that make a day and getting things done. It’s when someone really stops in the face of that routine and asks, “How are you holding up? How do you stay so happy despite all that’s going on?” that thoughts come crashing down into a glimpse of what reality would be if one did not choose the high road, the “this too shall pass” attitude which seeks something better around the next corner or on the next page of the calendar. It’s bleak in that spot and certainly a place to avoid if you ask me.

After reading, “Mindset”, by Carol Dweck I am leaning toward thinking that some people are simply made to look on the bright side, to yearn for more knowledge and more information while others simply wilt and wither under the strains of pushing limits and in facing tough events. The study of Noetics, brought to light in Dan Brown’s book, “The Lost Symbol”, gets to this mind over matter as well in it’s pure definition:

“… an alternative metaphysicalphilosophy concerned with the study of mind and intuition, and its relationship with a proposed divine intellect. Among its principal purposes are the study of the effects of perceptions, beliefs, and intentions on human consciousness.”

Thanks, Mira, for sending me your message today — maybe part of the point of life’s adversity for me right now it to truly understand that letting go and working toward the next good thing really is an exercise in mind over matter, framing perception, and inevitably making good thoughts into things.