Looking for the Good

We feed that on which we focus, so focus on the good.

There is an old story that tells us of the two wolves which live inside each of us - the good wolf and the bad wolf. These two wolves are constantly battling each other. Which one of them will triumph in the end? That will be the wolf we feed. So if we spend our time focusing on the bad, the bad wolf will triumph. If we feed the good wolf with kindness, care, compassion, the good wolf will win.

Today’s post is about the desire to focus on the good, the difficulty in doing that and the reward we enjoy when we persevere with that aim.

A Survival Response

The thing about focusing on the bad, the awful, the unkind, the dreadful is that it’s easy. It’s what we are designed to do in order to survive. Our nervous system needs to see the bad, the evil, the unkind in order to protect ourselves from it. It is our default setting to see the bad, the potentially bad.

It doesn’t matter, after all, if we accidentally eat a blueberry. We don’t need to notice the good because it won’t hurt us. We do, ho…