Isn't it funny how something incredibly hard to deal with and understand can give us such a great perspective if we open our minds to the lessons of life?
This week I made a few shifts in the way I handle things and myself. The result is that I am quicker to make a decision to step away from something that is not working to bring me smiles, but at the same time I find a way to smile at that thing. I have lived through hard tragedies and things that I thought would surely defeat my spirit and will to live....but not so.
I am encouraged daily by those working to better the lives of those who have been hit hard by nature, all the while watching others fret over a broken finger nail, bad hair day or a lost something or other. I then had someone post a video that was of Brene Browns interview with Oprah and how we sometimes will super-cede our joy by waiting and looking for the other shoe to drop. STOP IT!!! But it might help if you watch this
I believe that our moments of joy are the substance of life and if we want more joy we need to be most grateful and fully engaged with all our joy. But it's not enough to just be happy when the joy arrives, it is most important that we find our joy in everything. Even if our gratitude is for the hard stuff to better appreciate the good stuff, we will see more of what we say we want when we appreciate all that we see.
Its a little bit of a trick, but we are the directors of this life. We attract more of what we say we want, much of what we believe we deserve and all that we give our attention to. Your magnifying glass(mindful attention) will magnify what you focus on.
Think of it like this...when you watch a movie, do you watch the movies you like? Ok...so from here on when you see a portion of your life movie that you like, play it over again and again. Feel the emotion that the life experience you loved, enjoyed or accept as your true life....and then get ready, because that will become your focused view.
We all get the bump, twists or twisters that are part of life...but it is up to us what we focus on. Do we see only the destruction? Or all the wonderful acts of kindness that came after.? Do we see all the pain? Or the comfort given those who were hurting?
Truth is we have to see it all, but we get to choose what we find the grace in, where we find the moments we are grateful for and which video memories will play over and over again.
We are edgeranking our lives...we see more and more of what we choose to replay, focus on and appreciate. That Mark Z managed to figure out the life magic and apply it to our communication tool of our century....yep thats pretty smart. You get to see more of what you like and comment and appreciate!! Pretty cool huh?
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