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Suffering is part of life, but it does not have to be the majority of it.
The only constant in life is change; growth is inevitable. And so no matter who you are, where you’re from, what you have or haven’t done, what you have or don’t have, I know from the depths of my soul that you can find peace, unconditional love, fulfillment, and an abundance of joy in life.
To find everything you’re looking for in life, you must look inside yourself and discover the wisdom that already exists within you. That is where the truth is found.
In other words, pain is unavoidable, but how we react to that pain is up to us, and that reaction will dictate whether or not we suffer.
Reality is what is happening right now. It is the objective circumstance that is occurring without any meaning or judgment attached to it. And so what we experience is not reality itself but our perception of reality. Any meaning or thinking we give something is self-created and our choice.
This is where we return to the idea of the two arrows: pain and suffering.
The root cause of our suffering is our own thinking.
By changing our thinking, we can change our reality.
don’t wait for something outside of you to give you permission to feel how you want inside
The way to break free from our thinking is to relax our minds and trust that our natural inner wisdom will guide us back to clarity and peace like it always has.
When we ignore or fight our feelings, we only make our suffering worse. We are not trying to bypass our emotions. Rather, we are trying to accept and feel them fully without judgment.
Your mind’s job is to anticipate threats. Your body’s job is to regulate the resulting emotions. Everything has a role. When you let your body feel and process emotions fully without the interference of your judgmental thinking, emotions will naturally pass more easily and quickly than you realize.
Instead of looking for right or wrong, good or bad, look for truth without judgment.
Do not doubt yourself. Trust that your intuition is bringing you exactly where you need to be.
Have you ever regretted not following that feeling? Have you ever felt compelled to do something for no logical reason, but then amazing things happened when you followed it? That is your intuition.
We fear the unknown because it’s unpredictable.
Don’t let them stop you from doing what makes you feel alive and inspired.
You may have experienced a time when you were struggling with a certain situation or decision in your life and couldn’t figure it out, but all of a sudden the solution flashed into your mind while you were showering, walking, or doing something relatively relaxing.
