Getting through hard times is easier when you embrace life’s gifts
“People who outlive their prognosis are people who embrace life and everything life brings us.”
That is a quote from an article on cancer survivors in April 2009’s Alive Magazine (Canada’s Natural Health and Wellness Magazine, www.alive.com).
I find this an inspiring statement about how to get through any difficulty, health and otherwise.
Those of us who embrace life will ride through financial or business setbacks more quickly and with less damage. We will see the lessons to be learned and appreciate what we have rather than be entirely focused on what we lost.
It isn’t always easy to appreciate “all that life gives us” when we feel all we seem to be given are lessons of hardship.
May I suggest two ways to get you there?
- Put yourself in the mindset of an observer, looking with curiosity at the events of your life. Curiosity takes you out of victim mode. It also removes the pressure to find immediate solutions to your problems, since you are not making decisions but are just watching.
- Look deeper in the present moment for life’s enjoyable gifts. Even if things are really tough, you can still find some. Have you ever had a bad chest cold; didn’t you really appreciate the pleasure of a deep breath afterwards? Or how about the gratefulness you feel when your headache finally goes away?
When you start enjoying life’s moments more, you are more present and when you are more present, you start enjoying life more.
Your body, mind and spirit respond to joy by working to their highest potential which brings not only improved health but also more success.
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