This short article contains five short words, which when you realise their significance and apply the truth contained in them, will bring untold joy to the rest of your life and to those around you.
As you sit or stand here reading this, all hurt, disappointment, pain and suffering has left your life. Maybe for you this is only fleeting as you focus now on reading these words which point to how your life can truly be a never ending stream of happiness and joy.
You and only you made the choice to read or listen to this. I don't know what the reason for that choice was, but I knew for certain that you would make this choice.
Together, linked by time and thoughts we stand poised on a journey that will be filled with wonderment as we continue the rest of our lives.
For this brief passage of time, all you can feel as you breathe life giving air is a curiosity and intensity for what you will discover.
The secrets of your life's future lie only within you now. By speaking to you through these words, I am but a messenger that will enable you to flow forth and be at peace with your self and the world that surrounds you.
How or where these words flow from, I know not. My mind is but a tool that connects you, our world and me together through these thoughts. Being granted this privilege to communicate with you fills me with the most incredible joy.
Right now my thoughts and energies are directed solely at you!
You have driven my purpose, your needs and desires have created this dialogue. Like all around us, our lives are now inexorably entwined.
I may not know you personally and even if I do, I could never know what your thoughts and emotions mean to you right now. I just hope that you do!
Like the opposite ends of a magnet the past and the future will always exist, permanently connected by the present. Though energy and thoughts surround us in abundance, the only place where we are right now is here.
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What is happening right now could never be any different, because, it is as it is.
This concept can be very difficult to grasp at first, but when you do, you will feel an incredible sense of elation as you realise you have discovered how to eliminate lasting pain from your life for ever.
Pain can only exist when you allow joy out of your life.
Why it may appear different than it is to you!
It just seems too easy to say that pain can be eliminated from your life and indeed there will be many arguments which will strenuously deny that this is possible.
As I mentioned before I don't know you personally, indeed if I appear to know you I only know my perception of you. Only you know you as you exist right now, only you can think your thoughts and feel your feelings. For me to try and guess at them will be only that, a guess.
So maybe you have already come up with a number of reasons why the statement above is just not true in all cases.
I intend to present some of the arguments against the truth and will show you how the truth of it being as it is can never be wrong.
You are sitting in horrific traffic and you know within your gut that if you had only taken a different route, you would be at your destination now.
You are where you are and it is completely impossible for you to do anything about it, therefore what might have happened is completely irrelevant. It is as it is, and right now it could never be any different.
If you continue to focus on what might have been, you could end up needlessly stressing yourself out and could miss an opportunity now or in the future to improve on the situation that you now find yourself in.
You are fired from your job and you know it is your fault, because there was an easy way to prevent it that you did not take. In fact you hoped that nobody would notice however on retrospection you realise that you were always going to get found out.
As you march out of the door, there is only one certainty and that is, it is as it is. All the scenarios that you run through your mind can never change the fact that you made a choice and you suffered the consequences.
The more you think about what might have happened the less chance you will have of turning yourself around, taking stock of the situation and creating a plan to move forward with your life.
You are fired from your job, because you boss was completely unfair or in some cases even dishonest. Even though you may have done absolutely nothing wrong, the natural tendency is to start blaming oneself.
One can even take it to the extreme point of view that you were wrong to take the job in the first place. No matter what choice you made in the past, as soon as you can accept it is as it is, then and only then can you start looking to rectify the situation.
You suffer from a serious injury – This is one of our greatest fears, losing a limb, your eyesight or worse still being totally paralysed. With your body no longer functioning as it used to, it is easy to be trapped in your mind, wondering how things might have turned out.
Yet there are many examples of people who have accepted that it is as it is and created the desire and belief to make the most of their situation.
Some great examples of this self belief and acceptance of what needed to be done are; - Lance Armstrong the cyclist diagnosed with Leukaemia, who went on to win 7 Tours de France.
- Stephen Hawkins who suffered from a debilitating disease in college, goes on to be recognised as one of the most brilliant minds in the last 50 years with numerous books and incredible discoveries and revelations.
- Hellen Keller, who became both blind and deaf as a child, met her life long friend and mentor Anne Sullivan and went on to become one of the 20 th century's most recognised authors.
Once you start to realise precisely where you are right now, without any pretence at how things could be any different you can then start to focus on the healing process.
Sometimes this can be done on your own, and in many cases it is hugely beneficial to receive support from someone.
You are dumped from your marriage – The greatest pain that someone can feel at the break up of a relationship is one of rejection. You start to feel that maybe you could have done something different, that maybe you were not worthy.
What ever thoughts of misery and lack of self worth that you may experience, fortunately this pain is completely avoidable. By accepting it is as it is, you can start to focus on who you are and what precisely may have been rejected.
It is actually impossible for one person to reject another individual; in fact all that can be rejected by someone is their own perception of the other person.
Once you realise that you can never ever change the past, anything you said or did can never be taken back, then you can start the healing process. At this point you can now decide, based on an impartial view of the past, whether or not you move on or decide to attempt reconciliation.
No matter what you do decide and as long as you realise no matter what you do, you can not be rejected; then by making the right choices in a positive frame of mind you can be sure the outcome that is meant for you will happen.
In all of the situations above you probably would have felt some or a lot of mental pain, that is if you are human after all, and have not yet discovered the secret fountain of joy within you.
Once you realise that it is as it is and that it could never have been any different you are now faced with a choice.
The choice is to feel bad or to feel good!
Let me ask you a question; who can ever benefit from you feeling bad? Has feeling bad ever cured a sick person, made a jilted lover feel loved, rescued a kidnapped person from their abductors or actually done you any good at all, apart from making you feel bad?
If however you choose to feel good, no matter what the situation, because you accept, it is as it is, then you will open your mind and heart to only joy.
You are the source, the fountainhead of all joy in your life – just learn to live now and accept at all times that, it is as it is.
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