Archive for October 13th, 2009

I guess it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why the vast majority of people choose to travel the easy path when facing life’s challenges. Those who stay the path and live on purpose often find that staying in a graceful mindset, and having an attitude of gratitude, in the midst of life’s tremendous storms require a LOT of will power. I am sure the thought has passed the minds of even mighty spiritual warriors to just drop everything and throw a tantrum. It fascinates me how ingrained we are in our old thought patterns (yes, only those of us who need to change our paradigms, not the old wise souls who have mastered the process). I find myself asking, what more must I do to learn these lessons and free myself from a self created prison of worrying thoughts.
Yes, yes…just let go…go with the flow….have you noticed it takes ‘work’ to train your mind to do this very thing. I agree I’ve had moments of freeing thoughts where I feel myself light and worry free when the exercise of letting go is successfully practiced. It is true that when I genuinely place myself in a grateful attitude this task is much easier. At those moments I feel I do have the will power to go through life’s challenges in complete faith.
One of the most difficult tasks I have faced recently is forgiving those who terribly wronged me or having compassion for those very people. As I stand back and look at myself some of my frustration comes from feeling helpless and not being able to “do” something to “fix” myself from feeling the emotions. The truth is there is nothing to fix, we feel what we feel and how we make conscious decisions to embrace a compassionate attitude with grace and how we execute our decisions is what it is all about. There is nothing we can change, there is nothing we can control, and it just is. There lies the wisdom of the statement ‘letting it go”. It takes will power to let it go….and I believe that gratitude is key in putting ourselves into that “space” of letting it go and allowing FAITH to take over.
I believe those of you who share difficult life experiences might relate to what I am trying to express. If you are going through similar situations in life, I just wanted to share with you that this beautiful place of feeling gratitude and appreciation is not just some trend or fad, it really does work. It takes just some progress every single day to get there, to that place of feeling free, but the work will pay off.
Be strong of will as you paddle through the storm…..
Much gratitude
Elizabeth
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