{"id":2628,"date":"2015-01-01T23:08:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T04:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2015-01-01T23:43:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T04:43:19","slug":"2628","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2628","title":{"rendered":"Who likes to practice?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been thinking.\u00a0 We all know just how dangerous this can be… potentially.\u00a0 Thoughts can be good, bad, or in between.<\/p>\n

But tonight, I assure you, it is perfectly safe. Read on.<\/p>\n

I played a lot of sports when I was younger.\u00a0 I started playing softball when I was 7 years old.\u00a0 By today’s measures…. that is OLD.\u00a0\u00a0 Kids these days start when they are about 16 months old…. or around there.<\/p>\n

Anyway… we were told… “Practice Makes Perfect.”\u00a0 This is only partly true.\u00a0 Practice Makes Permanent.\u00a0 You see…. what we do repeatedly will most likely become habit.\u00a0 What we do… and think…. consistently become permanent parts of us… SO… we must be very careful what we are practicing.<\/p>\n

This goes way beyond sports, I’ll tell you.\u00a0 This is every day life.\u00a0 We would probably be well served if we tread carefully in our everyday lives.<\/p>\n

For a little instance.\u00a0 If we are always seeing the “Negative Nelly” side of things… before you know it… there is hardly anything positive left in life.\u00a0 Oh… but low and behold.. there are lots of positives in life.\u00a0 Everywhere.\u00a0 All of our atoms are full of them.<\/p>\n

So.\u00a0 Along with THAT… is THIS.\u00a0 Our\u00a0 thoughts are one of the most powerful forces in our lives. What we think about on a consistent basis truly has\u00a0 a significant bearing on our lives.\u00a0 Our little brains… all 3 pounds of them…. produce a myriad of thoughts.<\/p>\n

Our thoughts control it all…..how we act in every way.\u00a0 Everything\u00a0 from how we treat other people… to what we decide to pull out of the refrigerator.\u00a0 But forget about the grape jelly right now….
\nIt is my belief that we can benefit from positive thinking.<\/p>\n

Thinking on “the good” will turn in to permanent behavior. Worry can become Calm.\u00a0\u00a0 Anger can become Happiness.\u00a0 Intolerance can become Compassion.<\/p>\n

I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions.\u00a0 I just don’t.<\/p>\n

But I can have daily intentions.\u00a0\u00a0 So, in the year to come… each day… I will practice.\u00a0 I will practice more good thinking, positive thinking, kind thinking.\u00a0 And…. I will also try to eat more grapes.\u00a0 But not grape jelly.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n ~Buddha \u2013 founder of Buddhism (circa \u2013 483 BCE)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u201cFor as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n ~The Bible \u2013 (Proverbs 237)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking.\u00a0 We all know just how dangerous this can be… potentially.\u00a0 Thoughts can be good, bad, or in between. But tonight, I assure you, it is perfectly safe. Read on. I played a lot of sports when I was younger.\u00a0 I started playing softball when I was 7 years old.\u00a0 By today’s measures…. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/2633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}