learning to stop fighting

Walking outside today I decided to try something. For starters... for some reason, the last couple days I've just been freezing as I walk to class. I shiver on my way there and it's hard to relax and take a nice deap breath. So today as I walked outside I calmed myself. I convinced my body that the cold wasn't that cold and that I wasn't going to die and that it didn't need to go into survival tactics. I was successful at doing this and completed my walk in this state of mind. I let the cold take over my body. Now don't confuse this with tricking myself into thinking it was warm... I did not deny that it was cold. I simply let myself feel that cold completely... without fighting it. As strange as it may sound, it was quite enjoyable. I didn't feel the stress of staying warm and shaking like my body was going to come apart. I was just cold, that's all... and eventually I got to where I was going and I was warm again.


Here's a little puzzle... I like to think that "God", "life", and "trust" are ideas that would fit nicely into an anology here.

...but by the way, I really did do the cold thing... and shivering is as much mental as it is physical.