If you’re waking up in the morning, feeling any less than
super-excited and thankful, then you might as well know that straight off, you’re
doing it wrong. You might be focusing on one aspect of your life and thinking, “Oh,
I can’t get this right.” Whatever that might be for you. It might be money,
health, relationships, housing, etc. And then, of course, comes the beating
yourself up, putting yourself down, criticising yourself, just because of this
one aspect. And you’re ranting and railing at some invisible God-head in the
sky, “How could you do this to me?”
But, all the while that you are doing that, you’re ignoring
the things that are just so great in your life. And I bet you don’t
congratulate yourself when things go right? I bet you don’t expend as much
energy thinking about your issues when things are working out great? When you
can’t pay a bill, your mind races, and you’re focusing on all the problems that
could cause. Your imagination goes wild, racing around from one disastrous
scenario to the next. Physiologically you start to sweat, your muscles contract,
your body starts responding by taking on mysterious problems. Perhaps you’ve
never suffered from stomach acid, or thrush, or a skin rash, or boils or any
other myriad problems, like perhaps a weird pain in your foot or ankle that
just came from nowhere.
Now contrast that to when your bills are paid. You pay them
no heed. You don’t even pat yourself on the back, or think how great it is that
you have the money to pay those bills. You take those things for granted. You
don’t put any mind or imagination to use to visualise all the great things that
this could mean for you. You literally expend no energy whatsoever on this because
it has worked out.
What about your health, for instance? You get a pain, or
feel sluggish one morning, you’re Immediately planning your funeral! You go on
a web browser to diagnose yourself, and you’ve got some rare, congenital,
incurable disease! Oh, how stupid do you feel when you finally go to the doctor
with this web-page printed out, and the doctor is literally laughing at your
stupidity! You know he’s thinking, “Get a grip!” But when you’re well, you
either pay no heed to how healthy you feel, and take it for granted, or you
continue to look for problems because your uncle Donald died of lung-cancer! In
your mind cancer is genetic, so you secretly fear you’ve inherited the cancer
gene! But you ignore the fact that your Uncle Donald smoked 5 packets of 20 cigarettes a day!
A lot of our lives are of our own creation. We’re so
stressed, wound up, constantly looking for problems, that they have no choice
but to show up for us.
But, there is a solution, and it comes from inside of you.
You have to stop looking for answers outside of yourself and start looking
within. If you want to know more, check out my book, which you can purchase for
a bargain price up until Christmas!
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