Do you feel trapped? Anywhere. In your body? Your work? His life?

Perhaps that’s because too often we focus on what’s wrong. Our thighs are too thick, our eyelashes too short, our boss too demanding, our house too small.

If this is what we fill our minds with, where will we be in six months? You probably recognize that you often have the same thoughts, spontaneously. This is because every time we think about them, we actually wire our brain to rethink them, and eventually the loop becomes endless.

That cycle is the reason we generate what we think. As Henry Ford said, whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. The good news is that we can change the currently recorded pattern.

How?

Start a new pattern. And then practice. Anne Cushman, writing in the yoga diaryHe says he focuses on the good things every day, first thing in the morning. “This little [morning] the ritual sets the tone for an asana practice in which I am attuned to myriad blessings I might have otherwise missed: the complex and effortless coordination of muscles in the simplest forward bend; the peace that comes in the pause after a full exhalation; the release of the knot in my spine just behind my heart as I squirm. Instead of looking for what feels wrong in a pose, I look for what feels right and invite that action to expand.”

We can do this. It is easy. Look for what is good and ask it to expand.

For example, I am assuming that if you are reading this, your house will not be bombed tonight. You can turn a knob and clean HOT water comes out of a faucet. You will definitely have dinner today. And breakfast, tomorrow. You sleep in a bed.

How many billions of working people on the planet today cannot afford any of that?

Would you like to expand your asset? Cultivate your inner quality of mute, or “joy”: an unlimited ability to savor life’s blessings, whether you pour them out on yourself or others. The Dalai Lama, someone who radiates joy despite the horrors he has lived through, explains the benefits of cultivating mute: “It’s logical,” he said. “If I’m only happy for myself, a lot less chance of being happy. If I’m happy for other people, billions more chance of being happy!”

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Feel the joy.

Ask him to expand.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat!