In a life where our experience is determined by our choice and focus, with good bad/love hate/up down/in out/and a myriad of other choices, the single most beneficial choice to make is love.
When our focused is rooted here, everything else will unfold with magnificence.
To choose otherwise and expect joy, comfort, success, is tantamount to trying to paddle upstream through the rapids.
LOVE IS THE KEY, THE MOST IMPORTANT ATTITUDE AND PERSPECTIVE TO HAVE.
BECOME LOVE AND YOU WILL BECOME AMAZING.
Insults, criticisms, bad reviews and even nasty remarks are not physical weapons that inflict pain and do damage to people. Millions do however suffer badly from experiencing them.
We can point fingers at those that deliver such messages but truth be told, it is not them that caused the pain.
Everything in the world outside of us, even though directed at us, is subjective.
We decide how to interpret and react to everything we encounter. Emotional suffering as victims of remarks is a totally self inflicted wound.
While millions take harsh words strongly, millions more can laugh them off, and an equally large group can just ignore.
Are you easily hurt and insulted?
Let it go and minimize your suffering. Every little bit helps.
Remember: YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF YOU.
Fear is its own best advocate. Fear has within itself the path to fulfillment. Once we entertain the notion of failing, being hurt, losing, or encountering any type of suffering, we curtail our action, change our plans and pull back activities in the name of self preservation.
Those choices ensure our failure and increase our risk of succumbing to our ill fated end.
Fear and Worry are siblings. They are the offspring of insecurity and ignorance to the Truth of our DIVINE LIMITLESS IDENTITY. As children restriction this pair is responsible for lives of despair, lack and disappointment.
They may look safe and benign when they knock at your door. Don’t be fooled. They have nothing to offer.
DO NOT LET THEM IN!
We are actually perfect at our core. The entirety of divine excellence is in our DNA. To live lives of bliss there is nothing we need to learn, discover, create or invent. What we really need to do is chip off all the excess that has built up Around our perfection over years of exposure to the illusion.
Empowerment, personal development, enlightenment, and growth is not so much that there is something to learn, as there is much we need to dismiss and discard.
As we move closer to the light, all the garbage burns off naturally.
Be easy about it.
“it’s in there”
The more we struggle toward a goal or task, the heavier the challenges we face in life, the greater our daily difficulties end up being adds flavor and appreciation for overcoming them.
Not only do we grow and become stronger, we develop a greater sense of gratitude for any lack of struggle and become aware of the smaller things in life. As mindfulness stabilizes so to does our focus and ability to navigate any upcoming obstacles.
Within our struggles we find our reward.
A life without challenges has gained nothing.
Embrace the roadblock.
This icon of Stoic Philosophy and advisor to Nero lived in 65AD. This quote as well as “You have power over your mind but no power over outside events” could be considered way ahead of their time and never really recognized as some of the greatest advice mankind could ever receive relative to our suffering.
Most of us become devastated by worry over what “could or might be” the result of an action that may or may not even happen.
We live in that misery for extended periods of time until we find relief after realizing our catastrophizing was unwarranted.
In most cases even after the event we fear materializes, the impact was nowhere as devastating as our mind had created.
Not only are we living in manufactured and/or borrowed grief, we are destroying the present moment along with whatever point in time the event would come due.
There is nothing to gain from worry, projection and living in an illusory future.
Keeping focused on the blessings in the present moment while planting seeds for a positive future will mitigate unnecessary suffering that is self inflected.
Take a worry break.
I get annoyed by seeing excessive trash in the road or parks. Others may not even notice it but get very angry when the weather is rainy. I don’t mind rain.
Nonsense on the news has me livid sometimes. My wife finds it amusing. My neighbor goes crazy when strangers pull in his driveway. I look forward to speaking with people and helping them find their way.
All of this illustrates that NO THING has properties capable of altering our mood and emotions since the THING itself is inert and subjective.
100% of how we feel at any moment is determined by our perception of whatever we are encountering.
Our perception designs our perspectives on everything we do. Our actions impact our sphere of influence and grow outwardly in an exponential pattern putting a swath across humanity as our imprint.
When we see beauty and are grateful; the world rejoices. If we perceive ugliness and vitriol, we send a tidal wave of agony around the world.
Choice is important. We are responsible for the consequences of our vibration.
BE POSITIVE
BE GRATEFUL
BE CARING.
WE NEED YOU!
The same energy that creates stars lies at the core of your being. The power that has set galaxies in motion, unleashed storms and leveled mountains also formed you. The very force that keeps the sun burning brightly is controlled by you through your thoughts.
The reality you are experiencing you created by manipulating this potential to meet your expectations.
This tells you that nothing is impossible if you believe and expect to experience it.
As the author of your own story, you control the flow all around you.
Attitude, focus, emotion and expectation are the tools that direct the raw material we call GOD.
ALIGN YOUR ATTITUDE AND EXPECTATION WITH YOUR DESIRE AND YOU HAVE HEAVEN.
If we are not doing SOMETHING to create life according to our personal intentions and desires the world will fashion a life FOR US. We will more than likely not be happy with the default, reaction based experiences that are mostly defensive.
EVERYONE has some idea how they would prefer to live. EVERYONE can be doing SOMETHING to move in that direction.
If we DO NOT take action on our highest good, we will never experience it.
If we DO NOT take action we CANNOT BLAME others, the world, the government, our families, our employers, the environment or any force beyond ourselves for our plight.
DO SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF TODAY!
Now!!!!!!
So many of us believe we know so much about so many things. The reality is that most of what we think we know is what we’ve been fed by those that only want us to know enough to do their bidding.
True knowledge come from intuitive reflection and analysis of what makes sense for us.
Holding fast to any group think will only reinforce misconceptions making them harder to release.
Before we can truly know that we know what we know, we should research, analyze and contemplate the viability of our information and the voracity in which we defend it.
There is so much we dont really know, the knowing of which could change our lives, yet we lock onto to narratives that make no sense and do not serve us.
There is nothing more powerful than a person that thinks for themselves.
Let go of what you think you know to discover TRUTH.
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