#1472, Tuesday, July 21: Happy as proaction

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Post 1472, Day 202 of 2015
- 1,663 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

It seems to me that the simplest concept to understand in Buddhism is impermanence.

Very simple: Nothing is permanent. Everything changes.

That's all.

But understanding the meaning, and integrating it into your life? That's different.

You can have a very emotional reaction to considering that everything you feel is transitory, as is everyone you love, and everything you sense.

You have to learn to get over it, because your circumstances are always, always, always going to be different, and it happens quickly, before you realize it, and before you respond to it.

You are in a different place now than when you read that you are in a different place now.

Simply put, your emotions can't respond to change real-time - in fact, if you think about it, continuous change means that your reactions, whether they're emotional, physical, or intellectual, are responding to changes that are already past.

To process change, you have to discard all notions of permanence, and that is difficult, real-time, because even the lightning fast bio-processes involved in thinking are dealing with things that are already in the past.

The answer is to be proactive - be the change. Generate your own emotions, don't have them be reactive. Happiness is a choice. You do not have to let changing circumstances define whether or not you're happy; you don't need a reason to be happy.

Discovering that (which only happened a few years ago) changed my life.

Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight:                   207.6 lbs

Previous Weight (7/20):           209.4 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:                - 1.8 lbs

Diet Comment

Two pounds off for good behavior.

Food Log

Breakfast
Cheese omelet with onions, peppers and baby greens.

Lunch

Roasted turkey breast chopped salad: shaved Parmesan cheese, baby kale, baby spinach, chard, cole slaw mix and balsamic vinaigrette.

Snack
A Quest bar.

Dinner
Hamburger on Ezekiel Flax bread with guacamole and a Quest bar.

Snack
A Quest bar.

Liquid Intake
   Espressos: 4;  Coffee: 0 oz.; Water: 90+ oz.;

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