One such day......TODAY!
One such day……..TODAY! Jan
18, 2022
This happens
so often with all of us. Don’t deny it! It does…now with COVID literally on our face
it certainly happens more often. It's ok if you want to look all brave and
composed! I want to talk about it. Talking helps!
Some days we get up on the wrong side of our bed and
it starts all over again. The Good morning
messages don’t help, the smiles around us go unnoticed and we miss the bright sun just
outside our window. We feel the pain, we feel our helplessness, we feel the
reality. It's in our face but, we don’t want to see it. We don’t want to accept it. We all go through this often. We try to hide in this bubble that we make
around ourselves, oblivious, protected.
Praying that the bubble doesn’t break! A bit scared, a bit nervous, a
bit uncertain…
This is for
real, and this is ok. This doesn’t mean
we are weak or we are going through depression. It means we are just feeling…It's ok to feel. It's human.
It's only if we feel shall we heal.
We need to heal to be able to smile again. To walk again.
To do this we need to accept our feelings and
not be guilty about them. All that we feel
might not be acceptable to others, but, it's ok.
It's not important. We have to accept it first. Make peace with it. Let's not judge ourselves by
others' yardsticks. To each his own. Here we are alone.
So don’t expect help from others.
No one can do this for us. Let us stick
around with our thoughts, feel the pain, feel the fear, feel broken, feel
whatever…shed a tear, and feel the relief!
It's ok to feel that way, it's ok to feel overwhelmed. It is perfectly human.
Now, let us pick up our thoughts one by one. Look at them closely, make our list with the positive ones first and the negative ones way
down the line. We might not succeed the first time around! It's ok.
It all comes down to perception. What we perceive is what we make of it. The positives on the top of the list will
help us perceive our life situations positively and the negatives will prepare us for the worst! A win, win situation shall I say? I know it's not as easy as it sounds. But it's certainly worth a shot! So shall we do it? 1,2,3……. Done?
Get up, dust
yourselves, and put on that smile. Let us get into our riding boots and get on that horse of a positive TODAY. Let us ride into the future with confidence. What you have is TODAY. Try and make every TODAY bright so that the
past will shine and make way for an uncertain but glowing future…
Good one...could relate closely
ReplyDeleteTrue it happens we cannot remain motivated at times but that is necessary for positive mindset. Liked the process of keeping positives at top of list and negatives down the list and go with the positives Will definitely help to stay focussed and positive
ReplyDeleteI am assuming here as a summary of the above that some days things do not work the way they should (according to us!) and we may have disagreements, resulting in a situation where nothing seems to work, which is a normal living reality and happens to everyone on this planet.
ReplyDeleteBut is there a hidden truth of actually trying to find 'meaning' to our actions and hence our life?
The search for meaning is the primary, intrinsic motivation of human beings and we don’t really create meaning — we find it. And we can’t find it if we don’t look for it. Importantly, only the search for meaning holds the potential to bring the kind of authentic enrichment and fulfillment that most people desire in their personal and work lives. So how do we apply the concept of meaning in our everyday lives and work?
First, applying the concept is the search for meaning in your own life that is most important. Meaning comes in all shapes and sizes. In short, meaning is different for everyone—there is no one right answer—there is only the answer that is right for you.
Importantly, we cannot answer the bigger questions about meaning in our life unless we discover answers to the smaller ones: What are we doing? Why are we doing it? What do our lives mean to us? What does our work mean? Why am I feeling low or depressed or unhappy? Every day our lives are rich with meaningful answers, but only if we stop long enough to appreciate meaning will it bloom in our lives.
Second, meaning always exists and therefore can be found in the everyday moments of our lives, so there doesn’t have to be just one answer to the question on how to find it. However, it’s up to us to detect the meaning of the experiences we have each day. Meaning, in other words, can be found even in situations that do not bring us happiness or power.
Third, it is important to define the concept of meaning. Meaning is the connection to your true nature or, as we call it, our core essence.
Meaning comes with being “who” we are in this house, community or world. When you believe something is meaningful, it is because it resonates with your true nature or core essence. In a way, our life involves the continual search for a closer connection to our true nature or core essence, throughout each day and over the course of our entire life.
Our core essence is what defines us and is at the heart of what makes us a unique human being. Although we can belong to a certain family, group and share characteristics of that family or group, we are still a unique being with our own unique essence.
The greatest challenge we face in life is to discover and embrace our core essence. Many people tend to focus on what type of job or career they think they should have, where they should live, or with whom they should have relationships but, in actuality, a truly meaningful life starts from, remains engaged with, and ultimately returns to one’s core essence—awakening our true selves by connecting to whom we really are.
Fourth, it is important to understand how meaning can infiltrate and therefore affect many parts of our lives on a daily basis. Fundamentally, we believe that meaning should be at the core of all that we do, each day. In order to live a complete life, we must understand what brings us meaning in/to our lives and what drains meaning from our lives. When we know this, all things become clearer. We come to know and feel more confident in our decisions and direction, and we also notice more energy flowing to and through us to others. In other words, we are no longer working against the flow of who we really are.
Finding meaning in everyday life is an ongoing process, one that demands attention to both intrapersonal and interpersonal needs. Meaning is the life energy or fuel that motivates us to achieve our highest potential as human beings. In fact, meaning is an integral part of our innate humanness, and it is the search for meaning, our primary intrinsic motivation, that distinguishes us from other living entities.
Importantly, the search for meaning begins with you.........