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Wisdom Comes from Suffering

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Change is a constant factor people deal with every day of their life. All situations are continually changing and morphing into something else. Most of the changes we experience are so subtle that we don’t even notice them today. But that doesn’t make them any less real.

They are there, allowing the cycle of all things to flow into your life. All items have a beginning, a middle, an ending, and the force of change powers that cycle. Sometimes we let the changes happen out of our control, and others when we are the force of change. The muscles that cause people to initiate change and make positive changes are the focus of today’s thoughts. Change is not all fun and peace in your life. It can be painful, angry, and violent. When you lose something extraordinary, that means the world to you because it paints it in a different light because of change. Wisdom comes from suffering, and change brings suffering. It is time to delve into your knowledge, enhance experiences, and be grateful for them, the pain, and your path. Change uptime.

Why We Initiate change in Our Lives

Things will change naturally, but there are times when we all initiate change in our lives. One of the primary reasons is that we experience pain. We have attempted something in the past, and it was painful. Something is happening now, and it is sad. Or we can connect the dots between right now and the future, giving a good chance of bringing the pain. If any of these are your experience with anything, you will probably decide to change it. Pain or, more accurately, the fear of experiencing pain will dictate change.

Evaluating all aspects of the change you decide to make is essential. Pain is a great teacher, but it also builds fear in us. Then we lose our confidence, and our ability to accomplish things is compromised. Use your courage to face fear and embrace changes that you want or need in your life. Change for the sake of making your life better rather than fearing pain.

How to Change

Here is a simple method to create positive change in your life. First, get a clear and focused vision of what you want your life to change. Too many times, you have the opportunity to change your life in a good way, a job that suits you more, a better place to live, or some other aspect of life that you could address, but if you have no plan for change, you are likely to stand pat where you are. Even if that place is not so positive, get a clear and focused goal.

Then it is essential to be open to using all of your opportunistic forces to develop the tools and skills you need to change your life best. Find examples of people who had achieved what you sought before you and use them as positive role models. It is estimated that 80% of success in anything requires a role model to show you the way. Most people are very generous with their time and are more than willing to help somebody do what they have already done. Don’t be afraid to seek those role models to help you positively change your life.

Finally, it is essential to resolve all of your inner conflicts and embrace changes. We all carry baggage from our past, and that past existed for a reason. Usually, it teaches us a lesson if we pay attention. Don’t let a lack of confidence or an awful experience cost you your dreams today. We all have ability and talent, and let yours develop. Don’t let an issue from the past stop you from changing in positive ways.

Change, change, change.

Embrace the magic that change can bring and allow yourself to grow from it all. Please don’t spend your life fighting against it. Life is a constant dance of transformation. From birth to death, we all are continually changing. Don’t fight it. Embrace the change you face as the opportunity it is. Ten years from now, you will look back and see how different you are from 10 years ago as you were ten years before. Move all of your positive direction changes, and life will become a much more enjoyable experience.

“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” —Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea.

“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” —Georg C. Lichtenberg.

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” —John F. Kennedy.

 

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Stages of Life

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Cycles- a series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order.

Tunnel vision seems to be a talent people develop. Looking at the one moment or situation and only seeing what is in front of them. They understand their experiences as individual events, affecting only them in this one moment. But there is a more massive game at play as we move through your life cycle. Things are moving together at once to a conclusion we are neither in control of nor conscious of their happening.

Today the challenge is to be more aware of the cycles we are moving through in our individual experiences. It starts with looking at the thoughts you are thinking to lead to events, the words we use to describe them and ourselves, and our actions to make things happen. Life is not a snapshot. It is a video, and watch the whole thing.

Inevitable Cycles

There are some events that we are destined to go through. All things come, and they go. Life as a whole is one of these inevitable cycles. You can’t avoid it because the control lies with nature, and we are just players in this action. We are here through its production from the beginning, middle, and end, which is not negotiable. We have no idea when the end is going to come. That makes the cycle a little more exciting, but most go through the period without noticing something in arcane ignorance.

The one thing we do have control over is how we respond to the larger cycle of life. We can hide in unconscious entertainment activities, letting each move in the period pass us unnoticed and unappreciated, or notice the changes and turns in the life cycle. As the twists and turns on a rollercoaster, you can choose to prepare and enjoy the moments or hide your eyes and let them slip away. Some will be sad, of course, but most will be glorious. Don’t wallow in the tragedy. Enjoy the magnificent. Get into the cycle of life you are currently experiencing. It will not go on forever.

Some Cycles Need to be Broken

On a smaller scale, we all establish cycles in our lives. The routines run them we create to manage our lives and make them as productive and enjoyable as we can. How we prepare for the day, get to work, eat our meals, and spend our free time can all be included in our daily cycle. Sometimes these cycles bring a narrow scope of life or include bad habits, which are not suitable for our health, mentally or physically. The good part is that we can break them at any moment.

It starts with becoming aware of what your particular cycle brings into your life. Perhaps it is causing you to shut out opportunities for new adventures because it would mean a change. Maybe it is keeping unhealthy relationships and habits in your reality because they bring comfort. The person in charge of breaking a destructive cycle is you and you alone. Become conscious of the results of the cycles you are experiencing today, like old clothes that are out of style or worn out. Once, they had a purpose, but now it’s time to move on and wear something new. Break a destructive cycle and start a new one. It can happen any time you consciously choose to do so.

New Cycles

It is also interesting that we can create cycles and routines that include all of the healthy and enjoyable things life offers with a little conscious effort. When you want to do this, look for something that you know has to change or another that you want to add to your life. Then see where it fits. Exercise can be one of these things. When it moves from something that you would like to do to something that you must do, it will become a part of your life cycle.

New cycles are painful at first, but slowly they become a part of your life, and you move through them seamlessly as if they were always there. This experience happens when you change jobs or move to a new location. We seek familiarity in our routines to find ourselves in a unique situation. There is a comfort in the known that makes even the strangest place feel like home. Look for the cycles you can create that will make you feel this way.

The Endings are the Beginnings: Cycles

All cycles do end for us, eventually. Rather than be sad about the loss, be happy about the beginning that will result from it. Even the end of life brings a new start in some way. As our consciousness ends, another may be born. If left to our own devices, our bodies would return to the Earth and provide nutrients for a new life. Take a moment today and notice the cycles around you and the many endings, beginnings, and middles that exist everywhere.

It can come from enjoying a cup of coffee to appreciating a conversation. They are in everything, and by being conscious of them, you become more aware of the substance of life. One thing ends, bringing the beginning of another. The cycle of life is there for you to watch. And it all starts with you paying more attention to the thoughts you entertain, the words you speak, and the actions you take because of it. Notice your life cycles and honestly seek to make them more positive and healthy every day. The life you improve will be your own.

“Each thing is like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.”~ Marcus Aurelius

“Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It’s conditioning that the soul undergoes to create experience. And it’s a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.”~ Deepak Chopra

This, too shall pass. 

 

 

 

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Begin

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Beginning- the point in time or space at which something starts.

beginning There is nothing as exciting in life as a new beginning.  This is the point that you are embarking on a fresh adventure in some phase of your life and the potential is feeling unlimited.  Sometimes the manner we get to a beginning can be painful, scary, or sad but the opportunity to start something exists in every situation, we have to have the focus, attention, and desire to get started. This can be easier said than done.  Be conscious today of the beginnings that are happening in your life and the lives of those you come in contact with. Put your thoughts, words, and actions into supporting the beginnings that are happening all around you. Recognize the potential that each day brings you to start new and take steps to achieve anything you want to achieve.

Embrace the Beginning

Life moves in cycles. People enter your life, interests are sparked, patterns are established and we follow them as routine.  Routines are the desired result because there is an illusion of control in them. If you can follow the same pattern daily and get the same result, then control seems to be yours. BeginningBut then always and inevitably change enters the picture.  Situations change, new elements are introduced, routines are challenged and destroyed.  The perception of control is destroyed along with it.  To realize that we have very little control over what happens around us, allows one to seek and accept a new beginning quickly and with an open mind.

So your choice when it comes to a beginning is to resist it and cling to what is gone or to run toward it and embrace it completely.  Take steps to understand yourself and how you deal with change. Focus on what good things are going to come from this change. Put the perceived losses away, they don’t matter because there is nothing you can do about them other than learn their lesson.  See the opportunity and embrace it fully and completely, let the past routines of life go.

You Never Know

ThManyeople tend to ignore that life every day has contained within it achievement, happiness, and satisfaction.  There is a path to find them in each and every day, and it all starts by beginning to look for them. Instead, so many Beginningfocus on the fear and lack around them, allowing worry to limit their potential for all the good things they could accomplish and do.  Don’t let your preconceived notions and thoughts limit the magic that each new day brings to you.

If your heart is telling you to try something, why not do it? Choices have power and even poor choices provide a ground for learning and potential for becoming a better person.  All of these stem from the beginning of something and the newness that life has the potential to provide each and every day to each one of us.  No matter how smart you think you are, life is more intelligent. No matter how strong you believe yourself to be, life is stronger. To investigate the paths that life puts before you and see what potential exists on them is the good stuff in life. You will never find what you are looking for if you don’t embrace the beginning.

What are you waiting for?

So there it is, a beginning is awaiting you like the dawn of a sweet summer day, with the potential to find riches, success, failure, or poverty. All will bring lessons and your focus, wits and luck will determine exactly what is going to come your way.  Whether a beginning is ultimately successful or not is going to be determined by you, your mindset, and your willingness to set goals and follow dreams.  So what are you waiting for to start?  To heal? To be more sure? To be even more ready?  Patch it up and begin. See what happens and get started.

Each day we need to have conscious awareness of our power to undertake a new beginning.  It can be professional, relationships, a project, a hobby, a journey, or any other thing you can imagine. Being conscious of the beginnings all around you will move you toward the possibility we are granted to change our situation and start a new adventure. So look at your thoughts, words, and actions and the potential of your new beginnings this day.

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” ― Meister Eckhart