Heraclitus: The only thing that is constant in this world is change
Personally I believe that I am here on this planet to overcome. I overcome this struggle only for me to move on to the next phase of life, and there too are challenges I need to overcome. It is the journey of life.
No one goes through life unscathed. Our experiences and traumas are what make you uniquely who you are, and we all have a unique purpose to share with the world. Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. All suffering exists in the mind, no matter what happened to you, no matter how terrible. It happened and we can not deny that but the more you focus on it the more you magnify the issue. Whatever you focus on expands, good or bad.
Forgive the people that hurt you, forgive yourself and let it go. Forgiveness is more about you, than the other person. Forgiving someone does not mean that it did not happen nor that you got hurt. But, keeping it alive in your mind is what magnifies it and attracts similar situations. And the more it instills the belief that “this is just how things happen for me.” How many times have you said that in your life? Instead of dealing with the mindset that created that belief.
The subconscious mind controls your behaviors and patterns, and gives back to you according to your belief
Don’t get trapped in a cycle of making choices that increase suffering. I can attest to this, I had an issue/pattern that kept showing up in my life but with different people. It wasn’t until I took a step back and realized that I was the common denominator in all of this, and that is when I was able to start making different choices. Be a student of life and pay attention to your life.
Overcome the obstacles or let the obstacles overcome you. If you are not in the drivers seat of your own life, life will drive you. You will find yourself settling for a life far less than what you ever imagined your life could become. Don’t live a defeated life. Accept that there will be pain, and that it is an inevitable part of the human experience. Make a decision that: how I choose to experience my life is not determined by what happens to me, but by how I respond to what happens to me and that is what ultimately determines your future.
Gabor Mat`e – We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.
Our minds are molded from the time we are born, by our parents, teachers, community, culture, religion, etc. It is up to you to unlearn any beliefs that hinder you from reaching our greatest potential. Adversity forces you to dig deep to awaken you to the deeper dimension of who you are, instead of the perceptions of your conceptual mind.
You are the greatest project you will ever work on. Everyday has its own struggle. There are no mistakes, all the events in your life that you’ve considered to be failures were all leading you to the person that you are right now. Failure is that thing trying to move you in another direction. Learn from your losses and do not allow yourself to be thrown off by things that did not work out. Your life is bigger than any one experience.
The biggest challenge in life is that you can have more than what you’ve got because you can become more than you are. You can change who you are, if you don’t you’ll always have what you’ve got. Changing who we are is what changes your external world.
Journey into the unknown
Go on a journey of self-discovery, to know thy self on a deeper level is to find your purpose. Journeying towards a new sense of purpose is not always easy or straight forward, there’s always going to be fear, doubt and uncertainty they’re all natural parts of the human experience. Through self discovery you explore new possibilities to learn, to grow and seek out a path that is more in tune with your true nature. Change the parts of you that hold you back from becoming the best version of you, and make the hard choices that are more aligned with your authentic self.
We are the architects of our own lives and it is up to us to find our own paths and meaning to life. The battle is fought anew everyday. The obstacle in your way is but a stepping stone on your journey. We are here to overcome and overcome until we start becoming…