The Probability of Getting Fat from One Bar of Chocolate

The mind is a powerful tool and, in many cases, a weapon too.

You don't need to be a great thinker, a fantastical imaginer, a brilliant inventor, a scientist, a philosopher or any kind of creator to be able to use (and abuse) the power of your own mind. Consciously and sub-consciously we create our reality, and I don't mean by perception really, I mean by the way we approach what we perceive.

True, some people have more horror to perceive than others, and I don't dispute this. What I mean really is that when faced with any situation, we have the power to take meaning from it in any way we choose, or equally to take no meaning from it whatsoever. Positivity and negativity are the way we approach what we perceive, and we have the power to choose positivity over negativity every time.

I don't always make the correct choice; as I mentioned before these decisions are sub-conscious as well as conscious. My mind creates all sorts of anxiety, worry and trouble of its own. It particularly enjoys imagining horiffic worst case scenarios and living them out scene-by-scene. It enjoys turning my musings into a whole selection of possible worst case scenarios the most. Dreams and reality become blurred, I can never quite re-call which is which. Situations I fear will happen become reality because I forget that they haven't happened. Instead of living in the moment, I live in a moment that may never come.

Sometimes I think I would enjoy my life 100% more if I just stopped imagining a traumatic future for myself based on a current situation which, on the surface, can only be approached with positivity, and started seeing things for what they were before my mind warped them into something new. This is a cup of tea, it isn't cancer. This is a bar of chocolate, it isn't being fat. This is honesty, it isn't jeers and jibes from onlookers.

All actions have consequences, and yes they should effect decisions you make in the present. But living in the moment isn't about denying that the future exists, or that there are ramifications for poorly made decisions. It's about allowing yourself to see the beauty before it withers. Don't let an imagined worst case scenario consequence stop you from living your life with positivity, peace and happiness. Don't let your mind warp the likely consequence into something far removed from reality. Live the dream and deny your mind the power to destroy the moment. Probability is your best friend; use your mind to enjoy those things which are, probably, there to be enjoyed.