“𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐝𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭 – 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐮𝐬

WE HAVE THE CHOICE. We don’t have to allow our external circumstances to govern our thoughts, emotions, and actions. When we are doing this, we are living our lives in a reactive state and our mental and spiritual condition are at the mercy of the natural unpredictable realities of life.

It’s not all about us - we cannot live our lives based on our personal preference on how things “should” be or thinking that we have complete control over external people, places and things. If we allow external circumstances to have sole control over our internal state of happiness and wellbeing then we are actively choosing a life of resentment, fear and disappointment and actively refusing a life of gratitude, serenity, and fulfillment.

Living life on life’s terms means being mindfully fit and continuing to increase our awareness of our natural reactions to life and how they affect our thoughts and actions. Putting this principle into practice takes time and effort.

The first step to no longer living a reactive life is acceptance. If we are disturbed, it is because I find some fact of life in some way unacceptable to our personal preference. I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.

We must actively work on raising our awareness of our natural reactions to life where these natural reactions or emotions originated and how they affect our actions allows us to 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭.

WE HAVE THE CHOICE

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