Just Like Me . . .

We sometimes forget that we're really all in the same boat. We share common desires and vulnerabilities as human beings.

Everyone wants to be healthy and secure in body, mind and spirit, and to love and be loved. Staying mindful of those common desires is very valuable. It helps us align with God's Love, and beckons us toward a redeeming approach toward ourselves and others. That’s why the vision of The Center is to encourage everyone to go their center, be true to who they really are and live their life from there. As we do that, we discover honest, common ground for healthy, respectful, and appreciative relationships. Peace grows like fruit from such relationships.

Mark Coleman’s new book, Make Peace with Your Mind has a great meditation for realizing this truth and living it out. It's called "Just Like Me" and it can be used just about anytime with anyone, silently to ourselves or out loud. It affirms others as it affirms us personally:

• Just like me, this person wants to be happy.
• Just like me, this person wishes to be free from pain and stress.
• Just like me, this person has a body subject to aches, pains and aging.
• Just like me, this person has had many joys and successes.
• Just like me, this person has felt sadness, loss and pain.
• Just like me, this person desires to love and be loved.
• Just like me, this person aspires to do their best in life.
• Just like me, this person wants peace and happiness.

 
Mindfulness of these common truths is a key element of the rest that works. That’s why the subtitle of the main text is: Living a Life of Loving Mindfulness. As we are mindful of what is going on within and around us, we put ourselves in a position of conscious choice. We are freed and empowered to go deeper than our ego’s buttons. We are able to find that solid ground made of love that comes from Our Creator.

I heartily recommend Mark’s book. It’s excellent. It holds the best collection of perspective and tools for mindfulness that I have found in a single book.

Thanks for journeying together. More power to you in your adventure with God (which includes the part of God that moves within you and between us when we love).

Blessings,
Scott

(P.S. Here's a link to the book page and an interview with Mark Coleman if you're interested: newworldlibrary.com/BooksProducts/ProductDetails/tabid/64/SKU/84304/Default.aspx).

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