…starts with two very simple statements: Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me. and We are the authors of our every next moment. Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that cause you to be who you are right now. Each incident in life, even a painful experience, basically provides you with only two choices: you can either curse and pity it or you can call it good fortune. I have learned that there is only one of these two choices that can bring happiness.
Everything that happens to us, benefits us. An event is just an event. It’s how we treat the event that determines what it becomes in our life. If you believe that something that happens to you is bad, you will react to the event in a way that will cause you even more unpleasantness to you and the ones around you and appears to confirm that what happened was truly unfortunate. However, is your reaction to the event that causes you more unpleasantness. To outcome this, act as if the first two sentences are true.
Happiness is a state of mind. Although there are external objects and circumstances that cause us to feel happy, they are not the cause of our feel. It’s what our mind think about them is the cause of our happiness. What determines each person state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event or the object itself, but what the event or objects means to the person. It’s the way you perceive them.
A strong positive personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life, it gives us optimism and hope. Adapting to changing events and looking at them in a positive light can create a positive outcome. Dive into the change that occurred to you and dance with it. Embrace your past in a positive way, look at the good parts and be happy about the present. Create new changes for yourself.
A chain is strong as it’s weakest link. You are hit at your weakest point because that’s what most needs strengthening. Identify your limits and challenge yourself to outcome them. Accept critics to yourself if they come from someone you trust and who cares about you, as they are for a better yourself or the two of you.
Zen encourages us to rein in our imagination and dreams, not dwell on the past, not worry about the future, not judging events. This moment we call now, is all that exists. Be confident in yourself and your plans and you will reach new heights not attainable or unimaginable before. I have plenty of personal examples to sustain this. Don’t indulge yourself into dreams and keep a firm foot on the ground and enjoy your life until is not too late.
Act as whatever is causing a difficulty to you, is for your maximum benefit and SMILE all the time.
“The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound underneath the scarâ€. Ernst Schroder
