7/17/17

Today's Horoscope

All Signs:

The stars want to remind you that it's the little things. We sometimes don't notice that over the long arc of our lives that it is made up of small moments, all woven together and making up a balance sheet where we never see the totals, we just feel them.

Joy and happiness is usually meted out in small doses, and is fleeting. Often it is disappointing, and that is caused by our own impatience and unrealistic expectations.

Pain and sorrow is dealt out in tiny rations too, most of the time. In most cases, life is not as horror filled as you perceive it to be.

People tend to dwell on the bad and discount the good. That is evolution, putting an importance on survival, where pain or hardship is imprinted deeply.

We tend to give less power to our happy moments, instead longing for Hollywood style declarations and grand gestures. Most people are not going to make those grand gestures, not on a regular basis, nor should they. That's not real life. I'm fact, when they do, others tend to feel uncomfortable because it's not something they are used to, so we find ourselves longing for something we can't appreciate or process.

We continue on, discounting the good and magnifying the bad, it's our nature. Our brains are amazing things, the world's most complex and powerful supercomputer.

The problem is, that computer is wide open, prone to getting programmed by so many outside sources. Parents, friends, spouses, school, religion, government, advertising, Hollywood, anything you come in contact with, really.

You are at the mercy of your brain, your greatest asset and your worst enemy at times. The thing is, your brain can be programmed by you, too. It takes some work, but you can take back control of it, and have it working for you.

And like everything else, you do that little by little. If you pinpoint the things that bring you happiness, then demand that your brain engages in more activities that bring you happiness or fulfillment, then you will quickly notice the scales tip and that balance sheet will shift to the good slightly. Let the emotional side of your brain free to enjoy the things you find pleasurable.

If you demand that your brain look upon the bad and painful moments and dissect them and wring experience from them, it will. Demand it make you smarter and stronger and more cognizant of the fact that you survived it, and let it make you more rational and fearless when you experience it again rather than frighten you back to square one. Teach it to make you recognize the same mistakes you keep making, and tell you not to make them anymore. Let the logical side of your brain free to make you wise and efficient and keep you safe.

We often get this simple formula backwards, and it is simply because of the outside programming, put there by a lifetime of the fear and control and greed of others.

So reprogram your brain, a little bit at a time, and you will see your life start to get better, a little bit at a time.

You'll find that a little bit is enough.