Mantras

Ah mantras, a favorite subject of mine as it seems to be an easy indicator of a persons personality. You can easily tell who someone is by the "self talk" they use. Whether they are shy or open or pessimistic or optimistic. Not like you really need to hear them say things to themselves to recognize those things. The thing I like most about mantras is their ability to change someone by changing their perspective. Recently I've caught myself using the phrase "and so it begins" a lot. Its a rather odd mantra and I'll be the first to tell you so. Not sure why its turned up or how, being who I am though I am as always inclined to find the spiritual explanation and assume its just the big man upstairs trying to tell me something. Its certainly some interesting self talk though, the more I analyze it the more I like it though. It seems to me like the J man has been trying to get me to emphasize beginnings. Trying to get me to see failures more as beginnings rather than endings, to get me to rise above to get me to begin. Movement is movement no matter how its accomplished. Whether we cross the finish line in a full out sprint or we crawl across it dragging our exhausted bodies behind us we still finished. 2008 was supposed to be a year of "new beginnings" so I'm not so surprised to find that this mantra popped up when it did, which I've only realized just now as I'm writing this. So heres to a shift in perspective may it bring us ever closer to seeing things the way He does.