How to change your mind and not to die trying
A lot of people want more money, a better job, a newer car, a larger house, a smarter phone... All material stuff... And they keep asking themselves why they feel empty.
Always searching for explanations, maybe waiting for a greater voice to tell them the reasons of their sorrows and why they deserve them. Thinking they were born to suffer a lot, they are good for nothing and can't change that because it's their destiny and is written in stone, but guest what: this people also watch both sides of the street before crossing.
It’s not because they deserve bad things, people never should think in this way and believe that karma is doing its work with them. If that thought is correct then children with cancer deserve this illness. Bad things don’t happen because people deserve a punishment; bad things happen because life is a balance, and we need to remember that.
Bruce Lee, the well-known American martial artist and actor, said:
“Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting a tiger will not attack you because you are a vegetarian.”
Enjoy the good moments and be ready to get some bad ones, which must be used as learning experience. “Resilience” is the word to have in mind.
Where it all starts
There will be circumstances beyond our control, and those are all the variables outside ourselves, and if we can't control them, why to worry about. In the other hand, what we can control are the way feel about a situation and the actions we choose to make responding to that situation.
People may think that it's a lot way better weeping in a big house than in a little studio apartment, but when you understand that you really don't need a big house that will cost you a lot of effort or money to clean and maintain, you can live happily in that little apartment.
Have in mind that there are people living in worse conditions, or barely living, and we don't need large structures to live in; we only need good family ties and great relationships with our neighbors.
But it all starts within ourselves; we can’t give what we don’t have. It will happen if we put our part to make it happen.
Changing our mindset, directly, will change our body and the energy that we transmit and receive to our families, friends and relatives, which will start to consider us as the better persons we want to be. We'll start to see the little details, what really have a meaning to us, how easy is life and why we are focused in worthless problems.
When you have the emotional intelligence to discover this new world, meaningful and more vivid, there will always be solutions and answers instead of problems and questions.
To accomplish this, we need to leave our comfort zone, make plans for our future, set goals, and replace bad habits with reading, exercise, meditation or any benefit habit.
If you have read until here, I congratulate you, you’re doing great, I wish everybody could find his path forward personal development, but this will mean nothing if you don’t take action. I repeat it, nothing.