consciously aware

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. M. Scott Peck:

I find it interesting how I don’t have as many readers on the days that I talk about giving. Yet I know many people who are reading this blog are in distress. You are wanting to read something that will give you something to hold on to, something that will ease your discomfort, even if just a bit. Just so you know the giving blogs are especially for you. In giving you will give yourself freedom from your problems. In giving you will get out of your head. In giving you will find freedom.

You choose every moment of every day who you want to be and who you want to become. Whether you are conscious of those choices or not, it’s happening. It’s about awareness. The more you focus on your problem, the bigger your problem will get. If all you see is problem then how are you going to see a solution? I am going to keep saying that until it resonates with you. Consider that a smack in the face. We believe that we can’t leave our problem because somehow leaving it unattended will cause a bigger disruption in our lives. Doesn’t that sound absurd? I really want to drive home the fact that our obsession on anything that doesn’t bring you peace and harmony is merely a distraction that will prolong your feeling of being separate. This is your chance to get it right. And I don’t mean right, as in right and wrong…I mean right as in right with yourself. Life doesn’t have to be this series of peaks and valleys. Its only occurring that way because you keep living the same life over and over. Take the opportunities of sadness and discomfort to do something different. Maybe in the discomfort you can find a way to see that everything is happening exactly as it is supposed to be. If the relationship ended, its because it lived its course, if you are feeling lost its because you lost you. Everything you feel right now has a direct correlation to the distance between you and your center. Stop and hear that.

We all want to know that we are ok, that what we are doing is a good thing. We want to be told that we aren’t making a mistake. You are the only one that knows if what you are doing is good for you. In pain all we want is to not feel pain. We will do anything to make it go away. We will stay longer, we will love harder, we will do more….all things that we know intuitively and instinctually aren’t what we should be doing. Life isn’t about trying harder it’s about coming to a place where you are aligned with yourself and you don’t have to try so hard because you’re paying attention to your inner knowing. Maybe it sounds corny and maybe it will make a difference in your life. Maybe it will wake you up to the person that is so desperately trying to come out. You are a gift to the world. Don’t hide out in your self pity or your self obsessions. Wake up to this beautiful life. You have so much to be grateful for and if you can’t see that then look harder.

Put your dramas aside and be childlike, live today as if you have no worries. Celebrate that you are here right now making a better life for yourself. Know that it takes a willingness and surrender.

Today I am grateful for my life. I am grateful that I have so much love and support. Thank you for keeping me on my toes.