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Mind Macros for Mental Health
What is
a Mind Macro for Mental Health.
In
computer terms a Macro is a single keystroke that saves you time in
not having to make many keystrokes. Call it a master stroke that is
efficient and saves time. In Mental Health a Macro (according to me)
is a thought you
think that has the power to cheer you up quickly,
saving you the trouble of spending a lot of energy trying to
generate lots of positive thoughts.
The
Macro is a belief.
For it to work, you must
believe it or desire to believe it more than you
desire to be unhappy, depressed, or anxious. Why would anyone desire
to be unhappy, depressed, or anxious you might ask. There is a
reason and knowing it will help you tremendously. There are three
reasons we choose unhappiness over happiness:
We make
ourselves unhappy in order to motivate ourselves.
We
choose unhappiness in any of its many flavors to motivate others.
We
choose unhappiness to show we care about things.
We do
all this in order to do better, make changes and improve our lives
so we can be happier. Wow! That’s weird.
Yes, we use guilt to punish ourselves emotionally so that we do
better in the future. We show our displeasure and our anger or
frustration with others to motivate them to change or
do what we want
(so we can be happier). And we become angry with ourselves in an
attempt to motivate ourselves to do better.
We also
exhibit unhappiness to show our concern for the things we don’t
like. Next time you are unhappy, own it appreciate it, and see which
program of the three is running. It will always be one of the three.
This will change your life!
Life
always wants to expand, and you always want to do better. Until you
learn to not punish yourself, you will continue to make yourself
unhappy in order to do better. Yes, we make ourselves unhappy in the
now moment in order to be happy later. We are getting close to a
macro here. The purpose of self-inflicted mental pain (and all
mental pain is self-inflicted) is to do better so you can get more
of what you want and be happier later. In simple terms, we choose
unhappiness to motivate us, to motivate others or to show that we
care. We choose unhappiness now because we believe it will make us
happy later. So, how's that working for you?
Consider
this: The teaching of the World is... "You’d have to be crazy to be
happy while________________ is going on.
Fill in the blank.
The news loves to teach unhappiness. People are starving, children
are suffering, wars are going on, and
I AM HAPPY.
How dare you be happy while all this trouble is going on. It must
mean you don’t care. Does it mean that? No. Does unhappiness help me
to do something about it. NO. It just makes me unhappy. Unhappiness
causes depression, tiredness, and lack of motivation. Unhappiness
does not help me to make a difference or do something positive for
this planet.
Here's a
macro, I don’t
have to feel Bad to do something good. So, if you
are feeling bad in order to motivate yourself, you can use this
Macro and cheer up, and then get to work. It’s quick. Just ask
yourself, what
do you want to do? Then go do it happily.
Happiness is energy.
That is
an example of how you can construct a Macro. Reason it out if you
need to. Or use your established spiritual beliefs for quick relief.
I place this in
the care of GOD. This is a great macro to bring you
peace if you believe it and if your faith is strong.
It
always works out. There is no need to fear. Fear doesn’t help.
Then you
can ask, what do
you want to do? Then get back on track.
Sometimes if I feel yucky I will ask myself a powerful question.
What would LOVE
say? Then I listen. It is a good macro for me.
Sometimes I call them escape mantras because they help me escape
from negative mind chatter.
A quick
inner dialogue with a question can get you back on track.
Is being unhappy helping
me to do well? Then,
how do you want to feel? If you felt good could you do a good job?
Accepting things as they are is a fast way to get back on track.
Then, do a reframe.
I accept this exactly as
it is. What is another way I could look at this? What do I want to
do?
A macro
works better than positive affirmations because if you have reasoned
it out you may believe it more. Once you have created a macro that
you firmly believe, you won’t have to reason it out.
The only
reason for my life is happiness.
Everything I do is in order to be happier. Can I be happy now with
what I have and keep expanding?
YES!
Reason it out if you need to.
My
happiness comes from GOD, not material things.
Can I be Happy now? And once you have reasoned it out to your own
satisfaction you can simply state,
I place this concern in the care of GOD. That’s a
Macro… you created it yourself out of your own faith and beliefs.
Instantly you can let the worry go and get back to living on purpose
and with happiness.
I surrender my life into
the care of GOD… that’s a Macro.
GODs
will be done.
Macro.
The
macro on our American dollar bill is,
In GOD We Trust.
So let’s do that!
TRUST GOD.
Once you
have done a few gratitude lists, it is easy to say,
I have a lot to be
grateful for. Macro. If the lack thinking is too
heavy you can always list the top ten things you are most grateful
for.
I like
it when I ask people how they are doing and they say,
“I can’t complain”,
this is a great macro and if you say it enough it
might brainwash you such that you CAN’T complain. Maybe you just
forget how, or realize it never helps you. A good macro silences
your monkey mind and enables you to choose again what you want to
feel or believe or do.
The
tricky part about complaining is that it shows that you care about
an issue. The insidious part is that
it is an attempt to
define you as the special person who is at war with
the story about ____________ (fill in the blank). Drug abuse, coved,
conspiracy, crime, sickness, teen pregnancy, traffic on your road,
the neighbor, your health etc. etc. etc. You are then a
JUDGE,
and better than what you judge against. That’s what complaining
does. It attempts to make you feel special. It is an attempt to
define yourself as “better than” It is designed to give you
Self-Esteem but all it gives you is unhappiness, and the expansion
of everything you judge against.
Once you
realize these dynamics of complaining you could create a macro to
clean it up. Remember
“What you focus on
expands” this is the law of attraction, so
everything you complain
against becomes more real in your life. That could
be a Macro. The purpose of complaining is to make yourself feel
better about you. Instead of complaining and judging IN ORDER TO
DEFINE YOURSELF just feel good about you and define you in a
glorious way. I
am a very special, beloved Child of GOD who chooses to love everyone
and everything. A good Macro. Try to choose and
believe that, if you want a new life.
The best
part about creating Macros is that each time you reason out an issue
you are healing yourself and creating permanent Mental Health. It is
important that you create your own macros. They are very personal.
Your choice for
happiness helps every person on Earth. The zingers
that I put up here and on my you tube channel can help you design
Macros.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPzAYClunohSnrmZjveT54A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXHCH3I02yQ
Here are
some examples of Macros. The ones you make for yourself might work
better but it's always OK to borrow one.
Let Go,
Let GOD.
I can be
happy right here and now.
I can be
happy with my life as it is because I am learning…
I can
love me now because...
This is
good for me because...
No big
deal.
How can
I feel better about this?
What
would I do about that if I was happy?
They are
doing the best they can with what they have.
God has
my back, I can relax and do the next right thing.
This now
moment is perfect, right here right now. Nothing’s wrong.
Right
here. right now, there’s nothing wrong.
All my
fears are about a future that will never happen.
Only my
own thoughts affect me.
There is
no “world”, there’s just me thinking thoughts.
I have
the power to think what I want.
What
thought would make me happy right now?
This is
fun because…
Have fun
Sincerely,
John McKenna |
