Are You Alive and Breathing Right Now?

So long as you’re alive and breathing, you can do something.Photo by Eli DeFaria on Unsplash

Just when you think the world can’t get any crazier, it does. Before you know it, you read about the latest utterly surreal move on the part of that businessperson, those politicians, that shitgibbon, and so on. It’s distressing, disheartening, upsetting, maddening, and scary.

Life is always in flux because change is the one and only constant in the Universe. Yet, most people can only handle so much change without becoming overwhelmed. And today, change is nearly always too much for most people.

Here’s the thing: right now, it sure as hell feels like everything is coming apart at the seams. If you’re reading this, I’m guessing you feel the same as I do about much of this. Not exactly the same, because no two people ever think, feel, or are the same. But similar enough that this topic resonates with you.

My point here is that, right now, if you’re anything like me, you’re scared. Distressed. Uncertain. And also frustrated because there’s not a damned thing you can do about this. But it sure as hell feels like you should do something.

You’re right. But that something is going to feel disingenuous and wrong. Yet, here it is:

Live your life for you

This is not a call to be uncaring, unkind, unempathetic, uncompassionate, selfish, or otherwise despicable. Live your life for you is a call to keep on keeping on. Do the things you need and desire to do that allow you to live the best life that you can.

Take the nap. Eat the cookie. Go for a walk. Enjoy time in nature. Write that chapter for your novel. Sculpt that clay. Cook that amazing dish you wanted to try for a year. Watch that show. Cuddle your cat. Sing to the radio. Do the things that make you feel good, provide connection, and lighten your head, heart, and soul.

You get one shot at this life. With luck, that’s about 80 years or so to experience living. Because there’s only so much that you can do about the politics, public policy, terrible business practices, and the like, take the time to do for you. Live your life.

Are you alive and breathing right now? Then isn’t now the time to do the things you most desire to do? Like it or not, tomorrow is never guaranteed. There’s no telling what will happen, and no matter who you are, life will end in death. Harsh? Maybe. But also deeply, deeply freeing.

This is something that connects every single one of us. No matter where you call home, who you are, what you do, life will have a beginning, middle, and end. This concept unifies all of us and shows the need for kindness, compassion, empathy, and caring. Why? Because everyone desires this in their life.

Trump is a miserable, unkind, uncompassionate, unempathetic, uncaring nightmare. Read even a little of the nonsense he posts, and it’s clear he’s desperate to receive kindness, compassion, and empathy. Crazy, right?

Photo by Kamil Pietrzak on UnsplashAre you alive and breathing right now?

Since to read this, you must be, consider that right now, this moment, you have choices and decisions available to you. Everything within your control that isn’t making you content or balanced, you are empowered to change because you’re alive and breathing, right here, right now.

What you control are two basic things. The first is your 6 senses:

SightSoundTasteTouchSmellExtrasensory (instinct, understanding body language, connection, etc.).

All of these come from external matters. Other people, places, and things. You alone, however, receive, observe, and experience them in whatever form they present themselves to you.

The second is your inner being, the elements that determine, ultimately, who, what, where, how, and why you are:

ThoughtsFeelingsIntentApproach (positive or negative)Action (what you do or don’t do)

All of these come from internal matters. What you’re thinking, what and how you’re feeling, what your intentions are, the positive or negative approach you take, and the actions you take or don’t. You alone can experience these and accept them, reject them, and/or change them.

So long as you’re alive and breathing, you can change your life experience.

Don’t get caught in the outside hype

You and I are bombarded every day by messages hyping this, that, or the other thing. These distractions are meant to keep us from being mindful and consciously aware.

People who are living subconsciously are on autopilot. Thus, they can be somewhat easily redirected, misdirected, and convinced to accept all sorts of things that, if they were practicing active conscious awareness, they likely wouldn’t. Why the hell else would anyone at all view “woke” and “wokeness” as anything other than beneficial and empowering?

So long as you’re alive and breathing, you’re empowered. Even if, up til now, you’ve not worked with mindfulness to take the wheel, you can change that. Right now. When you do, and it’s genuinely about your empowerment, it’s not selfish or harmful to the world at large. In fact, by being empowered, you become another beacon that “they” dislike because you show that “they” aren’t as necessary as they want us all to think they are.

If you’re alive and breathing, you have a lot of potential and possibilities to work with.

When you’re alive and breathing, applying mindfulness isn’t hard

It’s all about practicing active conscious awareness of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and approach to direct your actions.

When you recognize and acknowledge what you are bringing in via your 6 senses, coupled with employing active conscious awareness of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, approach, and actions, you can make choices and decisions to shape your life. Knowing that it’s not selfish in the face of a world going mad to choose for yourself things that make you content and enabled, you can act with kindness, compassion, and empathy within and then without.

This empowers you, and your empowerment can empower others around you.

Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity – from the vast cylinder that exists between them – shifts life in a way that opens greater dialogue. From that broader dialogue, you can recognize, explore, and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you here and now.

Choosing thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions for yourself employs an approach and attitude of positivity for realizing amazing potential and possibilities for your life.

The better aware you are of yourself here and now, the better you can choose and decide what, how, and why your life experiences will be. When you empower yourself, that can spread to those around you for their empowerment.

Thank you for coming along on this journey.

This is the five-hundred-and-ninety-third (593) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, reblog, and spread the positivity.

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