Posts tagged Challenges In Life
Ten Ways to Greater Ease in Life
Sep 5th
What might a greater sense of ease look like in your life? What I know is that it would be unrealistic for me to expect no challenges in life. Ease is more about how I face these challenges – moving forward calmly and openly on my unique path with a trusting heart in the big picture. As I accept what is, a flow occurs no matter what is happening around me.
How do you say no to a pull toward more stress and complexity? How do you more fully lead a life of ease?
Here are some ideas to consider and explore as a practice:
Set the intention to create ease in your life on a daily basis. A simple blessing upon awakening such as, “May I move through my day with ease” can be powerful. With this practice, you will come to deeply know in your cells that you are worthy of a life without struggle – a life of ease.
Inclining your mind toward ease requires you catch yourself when you are moving through life according to your own definition of ease. Notice the sensations that accompany ease so that your body will remember this new way of living.
Pause and breathe when you notice that you’re striving or grasping for more. The ‘more’ that I’m talking about are more things, love, recognition, success, knowledge or even one more workshop so you can become ‘better’ or ‘enough’. The reality is that ‘more’ comes naturally when you rest in and appreciate yourself and your life as you are right now in this moment. From this place of acceptance and appreciation, you simply and easily move toward what will best support you on your journey.
Know yourself – what you value, what you feel passionate about, your strengths and limitations, what you need for deep self-care, what you really, really want and what you don’t want. Self-awareness takes making life choices to a whole new level.
Make the time to be in the silence of solitude. Time with yourself naturally empties the mind. Create a refuge where you can fill up on YOU – the Divine within.
When you are with others, know that you don’t have to talk a lot to communicate. Sit back. Listen. Be. Rest into a conversation.
Carefully select what issues you raise with those who surround you – harmony on the outside supports harmony on the inside. In my book, harmonious relationships bring ease.
Making the decision to stay in our own affairs or business simplifies life. Trying to control or fix other people’s business is like going upstream on a river. The easy life is all about going downstream.
Embrace every opportunity that comes your way to laugh. Place laughing at yourself into this mix. Taking yourself lightly is healing in itself. Experiment what happens in your body at a sensate level, even when you simply smile.
Through the tough times, tell yourself: “This too shall pass” or “It is what it is”. Both phrases work like charms.
My challenge for you is to be open to discover ways that support your particular brand of ease. Have fun! This list is just the beginning.
When The Storms Of Life Try To Overtake You, Rely On Your Essence To Pull You Through
Aug 18th
Some people throw in the towel sooner than they should ever consider it. Why?
I will explain why people do not tap into their coping skills to guide them through the obstacles of life. One reason people throw in the towel too soon is because they have not conducted a self assessment of their strengths and weaknesses.
We are all born with coping skills, for example many of us have listened to and or watched news reports of a woman driving with her toddler and she looses control of her car and it turns over. In the heat of the crisis the mother miraculously lifts the care to save her child. This represents the ultimate in relying on your essence to pull you through a crisis.
I agree, the mother lifting a car to save their child is a miracle, however it represents what is possible. Crisis in our life do not have to be as extreme as the mom, however there were a lot of people who came out of the recent economic crisis better than when they entered it.
Some people went bankrupt, lost their house to mortgage foreclosure and their credit went in the tank. Because they relied on their essence they are investing in foreclosed properties, starting new businesses and learned from their mistakes. Our economy is all around us and we can do the same when it comes to taking on the storms of life.
Most of what I have written about thus far is called mental toughness. Some people have more mental toughness than others, however they were not born with it, they simply tapped into it. It is difficult to rely on something you are not aware of, or have knowledge of.
If you want to discover your level of mental toughness, look at your background. Get a note pad and write down the obstacles you faced five or ten years, you overcame them and that represents history to build upon.
You are far greater than you will ever know when it comes to coping with challenges in life, especially in society today. The minute you think you are up against the wall in life, there is always someone else with significantly greater obstacles to overcome, especially if they happen to be of a medical nature.
The bottom line is we are all equipped to manage challenges in life, let us embrace the amazing resilience we all have on the inside of us and move forward in life. Allow your essence to carry you through the obstacles of life.
