Managing temptations -- finding a healthier way through
Channel: George Kao
Date: 2023-12-24

The aim here is to manage my temptations, which might include lustful thoughts and action, playing video games, eating junk food, needing to be right in my relationship, wasting time, or indulging in negative views of others.

I've dealt with these things for many years, most of them all my life, and still I get tempted and backslide.

Here's to aiming towards being able to solve this problem once and for all, by having an easy to remember framework to bring to mind to help me manage my thoughts and emotions so that I behave productively, purposefully, in a way that I'm proud of later.

Here's a possible framework:
Transparent
Energy
Management
Purposeful
Traveling

...spells Tempt, so it's easy to remember.

Transparent = what I believe is that all my thoughts, emotions, words, actions are fully transparent to God and my spirit team... and all the players who are playing this simulation of my life from the eternal world.

Energy Management = what I do to get out of my fixation/loop of unhelpful but very tempting thoughts and emotions.

Purposeful Traveling = I wish for all my simulation players to experience gladness, strength, learning, connection to God, as they play my life over. Also, I'm traveling towards heaven, where the ultimate and unimaginably great and lasting pleasures are. I don't need those in this very short temporary life of many lives. I've noticed that a temptation makes me feel like if I don't do it, I'm missing out on an important pleasure of this earth, and the worst tricky thought is: maybe this action will bring me more alive, creative, more fulfillment of my purpose because I'll be more experienced in this life. But then after I do the temptation I always feel tricked.