Free Your Mind

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Rush

 

Sometimes life can brutal. Just when you think the worst is over, you get hit with another bad beat drama that makes you feel as though you want to jump in front of a moving car. We feel alone. Even worse, we feel helpless.

 

This is when you need to sit back and contemplate your perspective on life. A humble approach is necessary to do this, because really looking at oneself and the way we see the world, can be a some-what brutal reality check. Once we look in the mirror, we are forced to grow whether we like it or not.

 

 By embarking on a path of vigilant self-honesty, one can ensure that they don’t go back to living in the dark. We can continue to deny the realities we have experienced, but usually that just ends in a lot of heartache and we will still end up having to face what we are so desperately trying to escape from in the first place. We all have our lessons to learn in this life and how much we grow depends on how long it takes us to learn from them.

 

Take this into consideration the next time it feels like the world is going to end or someone hits a one-outer on the river. Despite your heartache, the sun will still shine, the earth will continue to rotate, and existence as you know it, will continue to take place.

 

In other words, life moves on without you, so why stress as though you are the only one living it? Is it really your responsibility to take on the weight of the world or are you choosing this cross to bear? Look at what’s happening, take what you need to grow, and move on. Don’t sit trapped in a soap opera of emotion.

 

Although our experiences are uniquely ours, modern reality suggests that millions of people go through what we go through everyday or worse. What makes our drama so special? Once we realize that the only thing that makes our drama special is that it is happening to us, a new perspective and mindset is created that allows us to see that we are not as alone or as helpless as we think.

 

We all have problems, but it is how we handle them that determine our path. Everyone has heard the saying that for every action, there is an equal or greater reaction, but how many of us really put it into practice when it comes to our thoughts? Just by shifting your focus, you can open a doorway to a world of changing possibilities and paradigms that were closed prior to the decision to change your thought process.

 

By taking this small step, you will start a chain reaction that will forever change your life experience. Brainwaves have now begun to fire in support of your newfound ideas and thoughts are generated as fast as the heart beats. You have created a new beginning, with a new story, and a new destination that only you can write. What you do from this point is up to you.