Grumpy Cat Suffers

Ohhhhh, why must we suffer so?  (Cat paw to forehead all drama like)

I can hear it now! Cats all across America are now going to suffer along with Grumpy Cat.

 “Oh, I suffer so as I lay in this lumpy bed!” grumbles Bella the cat in Arizona.

 “This box is too small; my ass doesn’t fit. I must lose weight!” Says Miss Peanut butter Cat in Wisconsin.

“I am such a failure as a cat; I should have been a chicken!” Muses Tommy cat from Boston, MA.

The cat who is  affectionately called pees-on-leg, not-in-box, Mr. Waddle the cat is suffering too. He told me he just can’t find the Zen box anymore. I suppose he has an excuse to suffer. Or does he?

I even notice how  my cat who is stretched out, hind legs up in the air is suffering so.

This is a cat epidemic!

Well, actually for humans it is. We humans love to suffer. We thrive on it. It has become the normal of society. If you are not suffering, you are not living the dream. Try this experiment. Look at all your friends, coworkers, favorite TV shows, commercials and such. What is the main theme? Suffering which manifests in complaining and negative talk.  Go out to dinner and just listen to the conversations around the other tables. Yes, more suffering and now you shall suffer to for listening.

For some reason, suffering is exciting and drama based, but happiness and Zen essence is not. How many swivel heads do you see looking at a car wreck? Umm Hmm.

Most of our suffering we do is unnecessary. Yes, they’re are lessons in the trials of life that we must go through as it create character and teach us important lessons that we grow from.  Unfortunately, most of what you hear as ‘suffering’ is cat crap and should be buried with the clumping cat litter. It is recycled and unnecessary.

Internally, we suffer because our subconscious mind is programmed with what we believe to be true. Most beliefs are are not true but instead programmed and repeated patterns of behavior that were learned by past situations and subjected views. Believe it or not, your family and surrounding put most of this in your head long before you realized it.  

Our subconscious mind has no conscious awareness of everything it thinks. More than 90% of the information it uses to run our life is based on old recycled negative thoughts. No wonder we suffer! This negativity creates chemical reactions that are harmful; which creates stress. When our bodies feel stress, we suffer aliments and breakdowns of our body’s natural defense. Hence; we suffer more. Oh Goodies, something else to complain about! Honestly, all this extra suffering is an unnatural state for our body and mind.

Suffering is a lack of staying within your conscious state of mind!  We need to use our conscious mind to become more aware of patterns of behavior or ways of thinking that don’t suit us. We have to stop listening to those who create it too.

So, to stop the continuation of suffering, we need to realize what makes us suffer. What are we thinking that may not be true that makes us repeat the same suffering patterns over and over?

 It now believed that our conscious mind can undo most of our subconscious thinking. So, if that is the case, why are more people not happy or suffering less?  Well, most don’t even realize they are suffering. Remember, most live in their subconscious mind all the time. Not aware of what they think. Other people actually thrive on the attention suffering brings. (subconsciously of course) Suffering is now the norm. 

So how do you do this? 

 You have to realize there is a mismatch between your beliefs and the truth. It is hard work to un-program a stubborn mind and it requires letting go these thoughts and views that make you suffer.

As Byron Katie often says… “Can you release that thought.”  Can you?

Reflect upon this..

As you sit cat zen like, listen to that little voice in your head; the voice that is deep within that floats in the background whispering in your ear. (This is the voice that you wouldn’t want recorded for other to hear.)

Listen for what it is saying?

Listen to what it repeats over and over again.

Ask this honest question: Where did it get the beliefs it is repeating.

 As Byron Katie says…are they true?

Start paying attention to that voice in your head and always reexamine what it is saying to you. When you hear something you don’t like, examine it. When you start to realize what you are thinking is not matching with what you really believe to be true, you are making progress and on your way to suffering less. Unless you want to join in the suffer with Bella the cat in Arizona. 

If you want more help to release thoughts, check out the visualization i wrote for you. 

 

 

We love you Grumpy Cat, but you have to suffer alone. Mr. Waddle the cat just found his box. Cat treat?

Love, Peace & Paws!  KT.

 

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

― John Green