Keeping centered

There are many situations and people in the world who may attempt to knock people out of balance. I think these are a tests to ensure we keep improving to stay in balance and be content and happy with who we are. They are situations and people who will continue to question one's actions or words, but again, I think these are tests for our self improvement and to really understand who we are and who we strive to be.

Encountering new people or new situations is a very exciting time with new opportunities to meet interesting people and learn from others. And sometimes we may have a person who we like but perhaps they may not feel the same towards you. And that's OK. Most likely there are 99% who like a person and then 1% who does not. But we focus on that 1% instead of appreciating the 99%. Who knows, perhaps the 1% can teach us the most?

It's an ever changing landscape and that is what makes each day unique and great to be alive!

All is well

When we look around at the good, we tend to see only good things and obviously the reverse of this statement is true as well. It seems that life would be far more enriching if we all choose to see the good is all situations versus identifying all that is bad in the situation. Like a new relationship, we tend to see only the good even though what we think is bad is there but we are only seeing good. Then over time, we start seeing and fixating on the bad. What happened to the good? It's still there, but we trained the mind to see things differently. We can train our mind to think whatever we want. Is everything easy and rosy? No, but we can take challenges and see this as a time to grow and learn and train our mind to see the good. The bottom line is that life is good and we create our own environments and circumstances by our thoughts.

Life is an adventure

Life is such an interesting and wonderful adventure. The more we go with the flow of life and let it just happen, the easier it is. What trips us up is when we start thinking about the past and worrying about the future instead of just living the now. When we think about the past, which we have NO control over since it's in the past and worry about the future almost creating a self fulfilling prophecy, we create resistance which creates the stress and the fear. What would happen if we had NO fear or stress in our lives? We would all be happy fearless beings. Can we have that? I say yes, it's all within each and every one's control. Now is that saying throw all caution to the wind? Heck no! But it means to enjoy the now, enjoy and be thankful for the life you have today and stop and smell the roses. Everybody has a huge list of things to be thankful for and once we concentrate on what we are truly thankful for, miraculous things continue to occur. We control our thoughts and our actions and nobody else. This is empowering! We are accountable for all that happens which means we can start being in control of all the great things we can all have! If something goes wrong, look at yourself and see how it was created and change it. Yep, it's that simple. Will the change occur overnight? Perhaps not, but it's like planting a seed, it will germinate, sprout and grow into a blossoming garden and if tended to correctly, will be free of weeds. A weed will sprout, but like any garden the key to a healthy one, is to routinely weed the garden and not let it become overgrown. So, watch your thoughts and actions and if there is a weed, pluck it and keep the healthy thoughts flourishing!