No matter what’s going on in our lives, our soul has the ability to be present with it. No matter the situation.
Maybe, like me, you’re grieving. Maybe, like some of my friends, you’re battling a tough diagnosis. Chronic pain. A disability.
Or like others, you’re struggling with another aspect your life. Job. Relationship. Finances.
We can try to deny it, we can rail against fate, we can be pissed off. And we’ll be very unhappy.
Happy people live in the moment. What does that mean? It means this: The only path to happiness is by being present with whatever is going on.
Feel it. I know, hard. But that’s how to get through the hard stuff. By feeling it.
Become it. That requires us to feel even deeper. Yes, it can be painful. For a while
Focus on the present. This is how pain eases. When we are forced to deal with the here and now.
Address the issue. Don’t hide from anything that stands in your way.
Ask for help and proactively find it. We have to take positive action.
Be grateful for the good days. You’ll have some. You will, I promise.
Learn to deal with the harder ones. (see 1 and 2 above)
Find the beauty in your life and savor it. Become it. Yes, the flip side of #2 above.
And look to the future with hope. Sometimes we have to force ourselves to do this. But there is always hope….
Because our soul, our spirit self, is more powerful than any circumstance. Any.
So be present. Is it easy? Not always. Sometimes it takes more effort than we want to make. But, as someone I know says all the time: It is what it is.
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This is wonderful advice, especially about feeling our feelings. So many times I try and talk myself out of a bad or sad mood. When I let go and really look at it, it tends to dissipate faster.
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If you scratch below the surface, everyone is dealing with something in their life – whether a present situation or a past hurt unresolved. So important to have support to get through it. Happiness is possible – your work can help people see that, Carol.
Being present with the pain is hard but necessary. Just one breath at a time is how I try to do it. It’s actually all I can really do in those moments.
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It’s so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and not even realize I’m not being present. This is beautiful advice, thank you! <3
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Facing things instead of denying and trying to escape somehow is the more uncomfortable, yet the only possible way to live on and not just to exist. Isn’t it ironic and pretty unfair that we have to go through pain and illness and loss to understand life? To be grateful for what we have? To understand that life can be over within the next few minutes and that we have to make the most of it NOW?
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