Great AwakeningThe Great Awakening When I get busy with day-to-day activities or feeling that I "must get things done", it can be easy to forget that I am in charge of my own life. Whenever I take a time out from all of the activity, I always experience a great awakening. I am surprised to remember that, in any given moment, I can choose to be happy or I can choose to be stressed. I also remember that it isn't the situation that causes me to be either happy or unhappy, but it is, in fact, always up to me. If I am feeling stressed, then it is because I am having stressful thoughts, and not because a given situation or person is inherently stressful.
In order to shift away from perceived negative people and perceived negative events, you must focus on actively being the kind of person that you want to be. In other words, if your physical world is stressful or chaotic, then most likely your thoughts are stressful and chaotic. When you change your thoughts, then you can change your physical world. The saying, "perception is reality" is no joke. The way in which you think about things will determine how you see the world, which will then determine how you behave in the world. This realization is a great awakening for many negative people, because once they truly get it that their negative thoughts are creating their negative worlds, they feel empowered to take responsibility for their lives.
The key is that in order to live a life of prosperity and happiness, you must think positive thoughts. To quote Ghandi, "We must become the change we want to see." Below are some suggestions for how to go about it: To experience a great awakening, you must only allow yourself to have positive thoughts about your own potentional. You must remove any doubts that you have about your capabilities. For example, if you hold the belief, "I am not good enough", then you must extinguish this thought from your mind. A phrase that I like to use is, "I am fully capable and deserving...look at what I have already achieved in my life. If I don't know how to do something, then I am capable of learning and I know that I am because I have learned many things before. If I think something is going to be too hard, then that is OK, because I have handled hard situations before. I know what "hard" looks like and feels like and I can take it on." Be what it is that you want to attract. If you think you are not good enough for love or prosperity, then first be the love or prosperity that you want in your life. In my opinion, once you act in a loving and giving way, then you have already changed your life. In other words, because you acted lovingly, you have a life with love in it. If you acted generously, then you have already created prosperity in your life. It is impossible to act one way and to not have that action become a part of your life. Even if you only acted in a kind and generous manner for a few minutes, during those minutes you had a life with love and prosperity in it. And, since you behaved that way and literally created love and prosperity, it isn't true that you are not good enough for love or prosperity. You created them in your life, so clearly you are good enough to have them...since you created them, they are yours and they are from inside of you! Remember that you and your life are not an accident. I truly believe that there is a purpose and a meaning to everyone's lives. You were born with your own unique face, body, personality and thoughts. I believe there is a reason that that is so. Start reminding yourself of this every single day, and as you come to believe it, you will become more and more comfortable with your own unique self. Who you truly are is all that you need to be, so begin living your life from a place of knowing that you are purposeful and capable. Every day, tell yourself, "Who I am is all that I need to be. My personality and my capabilities do not lack anything. Part of my purpose in life is to embrace my own uniqueness." You do this, and very soon your life will have its' own great awakening.
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