Today we’re giving you another positive thought in continue with last week’s “ The Power of GENTLENESS.”

So hear it out!

People who polish their hearts and actions don’t bring pain to others.

They don’t inflict pain on themselves as well.

And that’s a fact!

Imagine you’ve married the perfect Mr. or Ms. Right.

And you get to live with him or her for the rest of your life.

Like Shrek and Fiona!

Happily ever after.

On the contrary, if you’ve married the perfect Mr. Wrong or Ms. Wong.

Bad-tempered, lazy, emotional, negative.

Well, welcome to agony for the rest of your life.

So your personality is that spouse.

It follows you day and night, wherever you go,

even when you get up in the middle of the night just to take a leak.

Um, we don’t have to see that.

And most important of all,

you can’t divorce it!

No!

So having a gentle heart is like having a 24-7, always there for you friend.

Come on! I know you can do it!

Yes! You’re the man! Keep that chin up high!

Having an unpolished heart, on the other hand, is kind of like

Man look at you! You’re a piece of junk you know!

Would you just shut up!

So now you think you’re somebody! You yell out me!

You get the idea!

Last week we talked about the power of having a gentle heart.

How gentle hearts change, shape, and bring impact to the world.

Today we’re gonna get practical and see HOW

HOW

HOW we can achieve that.

Making our hearts as soft as skin, as smooth and gentle as water.

First of all, no one can polish your heart for you. YOU have to put in the effort yourself.

Second, it’s not a one-time, once-and-for-all task.

You have to do it with intention every single day of your life.

Rome wasn’t built in one day, right?

Your current personality wasn’t built in one day either.

So it makes sense that it’ll take you the equivalent time or even more time to reshape it.

So number one

To polish the heart, aka the mind,

you have to get started with what it’s made up of.

THOUGHTS

It’s easy to get carried away with what’s going on in our minds.

But you gotta reverse that!

Show them who’s boss!

You are!

So whenever something morally-incorrect or something that just goes against your conscience occurs in mind,

intentionally stop thinking of it!

Switch your environment.

Distract yourselves with better thoughts or better things.

You have to train your mind to listen to

YOU!

It takes time, but if you keep on with the effort,

in time you will see the effects.

[whistling]

[Who ate all my Doritos!]

[Well, guess like I’ll just have less junk food.]

[Man, I’m good at positive thinking.]

[ding dong, ding dong]

Number two, “How do you polish your actions?”

Thoughts always come before actions.

So when you’ve arranged the mind, it’s much easier to manage the latter.

So with the same logic,

when you find yourself in the middle of, or at the start of doing something wrong,

intentionally tell yourself to

STOP!

[whistling]

Darn it, Joseph! Get your own Doritos for God sake!

I’m gonna make you pay!

[horror music]

Thank you.

[horror music]

No one messes with my Doritos!

I even got one for Joseph.

Joseph, you’re paying!

[ding dong, ding dong]

You see, no matter if it’s in your head or in your actions,

it’s always a matter of intentional effort.

But as we said, it takes time and a lot of hard work.

Like running water smoothing out pebbles in the river.

Like building muscles!

You can’t just go to the gym once and expect yourself to become John Cena overnight.

But keep this in mind,

just like building muscles,

the more you work on it the easier it’ll get

and the more noticeable it’ll become.

Think gently, speak gently, act gently for a hundred times, a thousand times.

And if you keep up the good work,

in time you will find yourself savoring a totally different level of joy.

True freedom in the mind and your deeds.

Peace!

[music]