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The Bank Of Your Mind

These are not my words. They are excellent.

Stop, listen, experience than move on through the day with grace. Knowledge from that is all around you. Peace.

I watched yesterday reruns of the very old TV show  The Waltons that was popular in the eighties or earlier. They were kind and caring of seven kids, the parents John and Liv and the father’s old parents.

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They lived in such modesty, even almost poor, but the kids had the normal growing up problems, but were all devoted to each other and the parents and grandparents. They had few material items, but they had lots of love, competency, caring and ambition.

One daughter became a doctor, the sons worked with the father on the farm and the oldest son John-Boy aspired to be a writer. They all married and had children so there were lots of grandkids around all the time visiting or living with the original family. There were three generations.

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The story was just as sweet in a rerun last night as when it first was viewed, when times were perhaps not has hectic with crime and politics as now.

When they went to sleep at night, the closing you heard the mom or dad or various kids say good night to each other and often said I love you at the closing. The dad was a smart farmer and businessman and in last night’s rerun, the mom Liv Walton taught school which I did not remember her doing. Perhaps I missed an episode showing her profession. They always talked things out and the neighbors each had their own distinct personality and problems too.

It was a show of decency every Thursday night. In those days, there were no DVD players to record it if you were not home; there was no instant recording it without a DVD player or discs. This was it; you saw it or you missed it. In about 1982 we bought our first video cassette recorder, but I believe the Waltons were gone from the television lineup. We use to in 1982 record on the VCR the Dallas show which we never missed if we went out and did not see it; we videoed it on the new and wonderful VCR and watched it at another time.

Last night’s showed the married doctor daughter could no longer have children due to an accident and her mom Liv played by Michael Learned, a fine actress who told the daughter Mary Ellen to talk with her husband about it, that he would still love her, the other son was married to a girl with a stuck-up mom and she looked down on the Waltons and her son-in-law. The younger daughter was jealous of another young girl trying to steal her boyfriend luring him with sexual offers. All of this was done without violence, deaths, drug dealers and addicts, car crashes, low cut dresses, out of wedlock babies, robberies and real evil people.

The show was a hit for many years and it made stars out of the not well known actors who played the mom, dad and some of the children.

My email pal and dear friend now of six years Steven Behr in Washington State always ends his emails to me with “have an unbelievable day.” He is a Wellness Educator and he believes in mind/body attitude and studies. Dad was like that. He always knew that today was good, tomorrow would be better and the day after that even better. He was that until the day he passed on almost 49 years ago on November 10, 1964. So Dad and Steven are my mentors, one here and one gone and I try to abide by their happiness and their views on now and tomorrow. Steven believes in remembering in what I call mind bank, the good times and to review them often in your mind.

Sometimes, I think about all the great and memorable days and hours and you would be surprised how vivid these memories can be again.

Try going back to your own mind bank and withdraw an amount to keep you smiling or proud every day. Deposit several times a week your own deposits of new memory assets that happened to you recently.

At the end of the month, get out your bank statement and do your mind reconciliation of the withdrawals and deposits and reconcile them as you do your real bank statement and see how it all adds up. I am sure it will be a well-balanced line of happiness with the additions of new assets and the reliving of older assets.

Then move on through the day with grace and kindness from all that is already around you and have peace and contentment. You will be with the possession of your mind happiness bank account and no one can withdraw it in error or crime. It is yours and yours alone to live and relive with joy on all that you have accomplished. There are no late fees on this mind bank account, no buying a new supply of fancy checks, no running to the bank and standing in line or doing it all online, no one hacking your account, no waiting for direct deposits from your employer or the government and most of all, no one can ever view it, but you.

Mind bank accounts always increase and the dividends add up on it every time you view it.It is secure and you are self-assured having it and this can be your own beautiful lovely garden of experiences.

 

 

 

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