How To Die So That You Can Begin to Start Living
Are you stuck living in memories, or are you creating an exciting future? You must terminate old thinking patterns which keep you trapped.
Start Living Again
by Melvin D. Nix
Are You tired Yet?
Have you desired to make changes in your life only to discover that you keep returning to your old habits? Do you have goals that seem unattainable and out of reach? I know how frustrating it is to feel like life is a never-ending version of Groundhog Day!
At the start of each year, we all get inspired to make positive changes in our lives. Goals like making more money, losing extra pounds, or going on a road trip are written out or on a vision board. After the ball drops and the New Year’s celebration ends, you start on your new journey. You wake up motivated and ready to go. Progress happens for a while, and your passion for life is thriving. After a period of success, you notice that your momentum has stopped, and life seems to be fighting your progress. Eventually, you lose focus and find yourself back where you started.
After years of repeating unproductive cycles, it becomes incredibly exhausting. Life seems to be a rough journey, and you may start to lose yourself in a spiraling tunnel of despair. You may lose interest in the things you once enjoyed, and boredom starts to set in. If you find yourself dealing with any of what’s been mentioned, I’ve got great news. You can regain control of your life and get back on track! Frustration and a desire to change are the best catalysts you need, but you must identify where you are before starting over.
Where Have You Been Living?
What is your current state of mind? It’s the most important thing to consider when desiring change. Are you stuck living in memories, or are you creating an exciting future? Do you experience emotions of joy and hope, or are you full of worry and anxiety? The state of mind you choose governs all your consistent actions.
Past subconscious conditioning shapes how you perceive the circumstances of your life and directs how you will respond to them. The way you have learned to perceive events forms your personality, patterns of thought, and mental state. For example, if you suffered neglect as a child, you might struggle with feelings of insecurities, a lack of self-confidence, and an inability to think independently. Because of past neglect, you have developed thinking, speaking, and doing patterns, which keep you trapped in a negative state.
Old mental states have been formed and fashioned from your past experiences. To create and maintain change, a type of death must occur. I’m not talking about physically dying, but death and burial of your past conditioning.
Baptism As a Metaphor for Rebirth And Transformation.
A powerful symbol for change transformation is baptism. To baptize means to immerse completely in water. It’s a metaphor for death, burial, spiritual cleansing, and adopting a new way of life. I’m not suggesting that you run down to a place of worship and sign up to get baptized. Instead, think of the areas you need to cut out of your life and the new ways you desire to adopt. Start with an inventory of your consistent thought patterns.
Old Thoughts
Thoughts are internal experiences that use your imagination and interact with your nervous system. If you imagine an experience, your body will behave as if the events occur in the present moment. Imagine being hungry, for example. When you are craving a delicious meal, you see that food as if you had it. Then your body will start to activate all the digestive processes. You will salivate, your stomach will growl, and it all started from thinking about food.
Now, take this example to another level. Consider something you’ve worried about. First fearful thoughts of what you want to avoid will start to fill your mind. Images of an unsettling future captivate your attention constantly. Next, emotions of fear, anxiety, and anticipation of your demise set in. Your heart rate elevates, your body temperature increases, and you start to sweat.
Out of your fear, you will start doing things that align with the reality of what you’ve been fearing. This process, if not corrected, will ultimately magnetically attract events and people to facilitate the manifestation of how you were thinking. To experience a new reality, you must terminate old thinking patterns which have kept you trapped.
Old Talk
Words are powerful. They reflect the quality of your thinking and use your imagination to craft your mental state of being. Unfortunately, a habit of negative speech reintroduces negative thoughts into your mind and sets you up to repeat past emotions and behavior. Listening to negative people allows their words to grow in your consciousness and corrupt your state of being. It’s time to put negative speech to death and begin to speak words of life!
Old Ways
All actions begin as a thought. Any behavior you haven’t been able to change can be traced back to a particular pattern of thinking and speaking. You must be diligent in taking notice of your daily habits and patterns to see where the old version of you continues to resurface. Change doesn’t happen from taking many actions to producing different results. It begins when you operate from a renewed mind which thinks, speaks, and acts as the person you want to become.
Whatever You Starve Will Die
There is an old Cherokee proverb that I love about a fight between two wolves that reside on the inside of each of us. One is good and the other evil. The one that wins the battle is the one you feed. So put to death the old ways of thinking, speaking, and behaving and rise as a victorious new creation!
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About The Author
Melvin D Nix is a spiritual teacher, author, and motivational speaker who educates others through monthly articles, regular social media teachings, and guest appearances on various podcasts. To check out more teachings, visit melvindnix.com
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