DONT WORRY
WHAT WE SEE AS BAD AT ONE POINT IN TIME CAN TURN OUT TO BE GOOD FOR US, AND WHAT WE SEE AS GOOD AT ANOTHER POINT IN TIME CAN TURN OUT TO BE BAD FOR US. MOST THINGS IN LIFE ARE BEYOND OUR CONTROL, WE SHOULD NOT JUDGE ANY SITUATION BY ITS FACE VALUE. A VIDEO THAT I THOUGHT WOULD DISRUPT MY LIFE AS I KNEW IT TURNED OUT TO BE THE GREATEST BLESSING. IT ALLOWED ME TO KICK-START MY JOURNEY TO BE ABLE TO TRY TO HELP INSPIRE MILLIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE THROUGH MY SOCIAL-MEDIA PRESENCE AND EVEN BROUGHT ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONVEY MY MESSAGE THROUGH THIS CHAPTER.
I NOTICED THAT HARRY LOOKED RELIEVED WHEN I TALKED ABOUT THIS, I MEDITATED TO HOW WHEN WE HEAR THINGS THAT ARE MEANINGFUL, OUT DOUBTS ARE DISPELLED. THE EASIEAST WAY TO BRING CLARITY TO OUR LIFE IS TO SEEK GUIDANCE FROM PEOPLE WHO POSSESS CLARITY.
SPIRITUAL STRENGTH.. HE BROUGHT UP. HIS QUESTIONS WERE NOT FINISHED. TO GET TO THAT LEVEL OF DETACHMENT OR STATE OF GRATITUDE, YOU NEED WHAT YOU CALLED SPIRITUAL STRENGTH. HOW DO YOU GET THAT? I WAS SURPRISED AT HOW ATTENTIVELY HE HAD BEEN LISTENING EVEN AS HE DROVE. WHEN WE ARE DESPERATE, OUR SENSES BECOME HEIGHTNED AND WE BECOME MORE ATTENTION.
SOMETIMES WHEN WE GET ENGROSSED IN A PROBLEM, WE FEEL TRAPPED IN OUR OWN MINDS, IN THAT STATE, WE CONSTANTLY REGURGITATE OUR ISSUES, CAUSING US A LOT OF EMOTIONAL PAIN. A SPIRITUAL PROCESS GIVES US THE ABILITY TO COME OUT OF THIS MENTAL LOOP AND HELPS TRANSFORM THE GREATEST DIFFICULTIES INTO OPPORTUNITIES.
SUMMARY
* SOME THINGS IN LIFE ARE BEYOD OUR CONTROL, WHEN ARE IN THAT SITUATION, WE FEEL OVERWHELMED AS WE TRY EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO CONTROL IT. BUT THAT IS USELESS!.
* THE FOUNDERS OF WHATSAPP DID NOT GET JOBS AT TWITTER AND FACEBOOK WHEN THEY APPLIED, WHICH WORKED OUT IN THEIR FAVOUR IN THE FURTHER, WHICH WORKED OUT IN THEIR FAVOUR IN THE FUTURE. HENCE, WHAT WE SEE AS BAD AT ONE POINT IN TIME CAN TURN OUT TO BE THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO US.
* JUST AS I COULD NOT CONTROL THE VIRALITY OF MY OUT-OF-CONTEXT' VIDEO, SIMILARLY THERE ARE MANY SITUATION IN LIFE THAT ARE OUT OF OUR CONTROL.
* THINK, IS THIS IN MY CONTROL? IF YES, YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. IF NO, THEN YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. THEREFORE, IN BOTH CIRCUMSTANCES, WHY WORRY?
WHEN THINGS ARE BEYOND YOUR CONTROL AND THERE IS NOTHING
YOU CAN DO, WHY WORRY?
WORRY NEVER ROBS TOMORROW OF ITS SORROW, IT ONLY SAPS
TODAY OF ITS JOY.
---- LEO BUSCAGLIA
PRESS PAUSE
❤ STOP AND REFLECT ON YOUR LIFE REGULARLY, PRESSING THE PAUSE BUTTON TO PRACTISE GRATITUDE IS THE WAY TO MAKE IT A CONSTANT IN YOUR LIFE.
I LOVE THOSE WHO CAN SMILE IN TROUBLE, WHO CAN GATHER
STRENGTH FROM DISTRESS, AND GROW BRAVE BY REFLECTION. TIS
THE BUSINESS OF LITTLE MINDS TO SHRINK, BUT THEY WHOSE
HEART IS FIRM, AND WHOSE CONSCIENCE APPROVES THEIR
CONDUCT, WILL PURSUE THEIR PRINCIPLES UNTO DEATH.
---- LEONARDO DA VINCI
👀 POINTS 👀
* WE MUST LEARN HOW TO PRESS PAUSE AND REFLECT ON WHAT WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR. IT IS NOT GOOD ENOUGHT TO SAY THAT WE ARE TOO BUSY TO BE GRATEFUL.
* IF WE DO NOT PRESS PAUSE, HOW MANY BEAUTIFUL MOMENTS OF OUR LIFE ARE WE MISSING?
* THE WAYS TO START PRACTISING GRATITUDE ARE TO RECOGNISE THE GOOD THAT HAS BEEN DONE UNTO US AND SAY "THANK YOU", TO REMEMBER THE GOOD AND MEAN IT, AND TO RECIPROCATE THROUGH ACTIONS OF GIVING BACK AND LIVE BY THE SAME VALUES.
* GRATITUDE IS NOT MERELY AN EMOTIONS, IT IS A WAY OF LIFE WHICH CAN BE LEARNT AND PRACTISED. WE MUST PRIORITIZE THE TIME TO PRACTISE GRATITUDE, AND ONE OF THE MANY WAYS TO DO IT IS BY WRITING A GRATITUDE LOG DAILY.
GROWING THROUGH GRATITUDE
WE MUST FIND POSITIVELY IN THE BLEAKEST SITUATIONS AND LIVE BY THE PRINCIPLE OF GRATITUDE.
WE LEARNED ABOUT GRATITUDE AND HUMANITY - THAT SO MANY PEOPLE HAD A HAND IN OUR SUCCESS, FROM THE TEACHES WHO INSPIRED US TO THE JANITORS WHO KEPT OUR SCHOOL CLEAN... AND WE WERE TAUGHT TO VALUE EVERYONE'S CONTRIBUTION AND TREAT EVERYONE WITH RESPECT.
--- MICHELLE OBARNA
SEE THE POSITIVE
WE ALL BOIL AT DIFFERENT DEGRESS. SOME OF US HAVE TEMPERAMENTS LIKE THE INDIA SUMMER - HOT, STICKY AND EASILY IRRITABLE. YET SOME CAN REMAIN LEVEL-HEADED IN THE WORST OF CALAMITIES, AND AS A MONK, I WAS TAUGHT TO CONTROL MY EMOTIONS. SO NATURALLY, I ASSUMED THAT I WAS IN THE LATTER LEVEL-HEADED CATEGORY. THAT WAS UNTIL THE DAY I REALIZED I WASN'T THERE YET.
👀 A POEN COMPOSED BY JOHNSON, OATMAN, JR, WHICH WE HAD SUNG IN OUR PRIMARY SCHOOL, SUMMARIZES BY MESSAGE ELOQUENTLY:
WHEN UPON LIFE'S BILLOWS YOU ARE TEMPEST-TOSSED,
WHEN YOU ARE DISCOURAGED, THINKING ALL IS LOST,
COUNT YOUR MANY BLESSINGS, NAME THEM ONE BY ONE,
AND IT WILL SURPRISE YOU WHAT YOU LORD HAS DONE.
❤ SO GRATITUDE IS THE KEY TO REMAINING POSITIVE AND HAPPY?
SUMMARY
* WE MUST HAVE A POSITIVE STATE OF MIND WHEN DEALING WITH PROBLEMS. THINK, IS THER ANYTHING POSITIVE ABOUT THIS SITUATION IAM IN ?
* BEING POSITIVE DOES NOT MEAN WE NEGLECT THE NEGATIVE. WE MUST CONSTRUCTIVELY DEAL WITH NEGATIVE SITUATIONS WHILST SIMULTANEOUSLY FOCUSING ON THE POSITIVE.
* JUST LIKE OUR TONGUE CAN BE OBSESSED WITH SOMETHING STUCK IN OUR TEECH, OUR MIND HAS A DEFAULT SETTING TO BE OBSESSED ABOUT THE NEGATIVE.
* GRATITUDE IS A STATE OF BEING THAT ALLOWS US TO SEE THE POSITIVE. IT COMES FROM REALIZING THAT THERE IS GOOD IN THE WORLD, THAT SOME OF THAT GOOD IS WITH US AND THAT THOSE GOOD THINGS ARE COMING FROM AN EXTERNAL REALITY. THAT STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IMBIBES US WITH POSITIVITY.
* EVEN IN TIMES OF DIFFICULTY AND SORROW, WE CAN FEEL INNER STRENGTH, WHEN WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE SUPPORT OF CARING FRIEND AND FAMILY.
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