Wow, I'm sure that title got your interest! Please keep reading, and let me explain.
I'm not saying that you deserve to have difficulties. I am saying that when things occur in life, if you choose to define them as difficulties, then you will react
to them as such (as if they're problematic).
On the otherhand, if when things occur in life, you choose to define them as experiences (and view them as neutral events, as neither good nor bad), then you will cease to have "difficulties".
Our life experiences are not clear-cut and definable - certainly not in terms of "good" or "bad". So instead of labeling events or situations, why not look at them as simply 'what is occurring'? We can then see events as neutral, with no negative charge attached to them.
And if we take it a step further, and agree that it's part of our human experience to have these neutral life events, then we can see that it's really not anything personal when things don't go the way
we expected they would. It's just life.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton said, "Do not free
a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel." And this applies equally to us as humans. If we had no experiences to deal with, we wouldn't really be humans.
For human beings are here on earth to experience the gamut of life. We are here to experience, feel
, connect, think, learn, play. It's what we do.
As we've evolved as a species, we've tried to mentally grasp what this whole experience is about; we've tried to use our highly developed brains to get a handle on life. But life is much bigger and grander than our 3-D brains can comprehend.
In order to understand life, we have to live it, experience it, feel it
- and do so without having a clear mental grasp of it. For that is not possible. Life is meant to be lived, experienced, felt.
So if you'd like to live a life free of difficulties, choose to shift your mindset. Decide to see all of the events and situations in your life as neutral experiences, here for your benefit (even if you can't readily see what that benefit is).
This shift in attitude will create a huge change in how you actually experience your life. As you do this more and more, you will begin to feel quite peaceful, no matter what is happening to you.
You will begin to live without difficulties.
By Elise Fee
I'm not saying that you deserve to have difficulties. I am saying that when things occur in life, if you choose to define them as difficulties, then you will react
to them as such (as if they're problematic).On the otherhand, if when things occur in life, you choose to define them as experiences (and view them as neutral events, as neither good nor bad), then you will cease to have "difficulties".
Our life experiences are not clear-cut and definable - certainly not in terms of "good" or "bad". So instead of labeling events or situations, why not look at them as simply 'what is occurring'? We can then see events as neutral, with no negative charge attached to them.
And if we take it a step further, and agree that it's part of our human experience to have these neutral life events, then we can see that it's really not anything personal when things don't go the way
we expected they would. It's just life.Gilbert Keith Chesterton said, "Do not free
a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel." And this applies equally to us as humans. If we had no experiences to deal with, we wouldn't really be humans.For human beings are here on earth to experience the gamut of life. We are here to experience, feel
, connect, think, learn, play. It's what we do.As we've evolved as a species, we've tried to mentally grasp what this whole experience is about; we've tried to use our highly developed brains to get a handle on life. But life is much bigger and grander than our 3-D brains can comprehend.
In order to understand life, we have to live it, experience it, feel it
- and do so without having a clear mental grasp of it. For that is not possible. Life is meant to be lived, experienced, felt.So if you'd like to live a life free of difficulties, choose to shift your mindset. Decide to see all of the events and situations in your life as neutral experiences, here for your benefit (even if you can't readily see what that benefit is).
This shift in attitude will create a huge change in how you actually experience your life. As you do this more and more, you will begin to feel quite peaceful, no matter what is happening to you.
You will begin to live without difficulties.
By Elise Fee
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