Did you realize that your appointment with life is now, in the present moment? We have to realize that if we cannot have peace and joy right now, nothing guarantees it will be there tomorrow. We must find a way to be and stay in touch right here, right now with our life, with our self. We have to find a way to empty our head of thoughts and just breathe and be aware of our life, our chance to be alive.
Let go of all negativity around you, do not let it touch you. Actually, it has nothing to do with you. You don’t have to let negative and scheming people and situations touch you. Stay away at least mentally. Don’t let this buzzing at the back of our mind start to take over.
Make a decision, right here, right now, to not let all what is exterior to you and that you cannot influence bother you. Don’t let your environment (including negative or toxic people around you) dictate or direct your life. Choose to be the master of your own life, of your own destiny. You can change your whole life in a blink, the day that you truly decide which direction you want to take, what you want to be. The day that you commit to your decision to change, to be someone different, to feel differently, to bee happy, you can do it. You might need a bit of practice but it can and it is being done every day.
Decision making is a powerful tool to change your life, to change our mindset, to shift the pieces of your consciousness in your head and realign the pieces the way you want them to be. It is extremely important to realize that when people are upset with you for some reason or another, it is often their own attitude they blame, their own integrity they question, their own insecurity they project. Things are not necessarily how they appear, and people see what they want to see.
Decision is about commitment. If you want to stop smoking for example and you think “I’d like to stop smoking”, you can safely say you have not made the decision until you are committed to not take another cigarette again, you have not made the decision.
The same goes for our mental stability, for our happiness and what we decide to look at and disregard in our lives. When you are engaged in an action and think to your self: Why am I doing this? And your answer is “Because I have to”, Stop and think for a moment; Why do you feel you “have to”. You have to realize that “You don’t have to do anything”. You can choose another option. Whenever you feel stuck in a situation, think about the other options available and make the conscious decision to either continue down that road you chose with renewed peace of mind or get out by any way you can.
I find myself in a situation right now where I am being manipulated, misinterpreted on purpose, where goodwill has become absent because of personal agendas and greed. It is a jungle out there and I had not realized this. I am surprised and hurt by what I am going through right now. I am in the middle of a social experiment and I am learning a lot. This has become a major learning experience in my life, one that has taken its toll on my health, on my self confidence, on my illusions about the goodness of people. Maybe I was too idealistic but I perceived this project I am involved in right now as a challenge where I would practice my art intensively and get to know some fun people. I find myself in the middle of something else altogether. I have learned that I don’t have the type of personality that can walk over people and I have learned that I can easily be manipulated, which actually surprised me. I have learned a lot about myself through this, what I like, what I don‘t like, what I won’t put up with, what I can endure.
I have learned I am stronger than I thought. I have learned that people are insecure and struggling to gain something even when they say they are not. I have learned that I am capable to see the good even in people that are schemers and acting like enemies. They simply don’t understand yet what life is all about and that what they do to someone else or how they are with someone else only reflects on themselves, on who they are as individuals, on where they are on the road to wellness. They don’t see they are doing it to themselves.
I truly feel that I am and have been but an instrument at this point. I put some factors together and I am watching the adventure unfold. To come back to the power of decision, I realize I got caught up emotionally in something from which I should have stayed detached. I was full of illusions and optimism but the people I am presently working with turned out exactly how I had been told they would be. I had been warned at the beginning of the project. So at this point, since I don’t like the way I am feeling about this, I must decide to change my mindset and free myself from all the negativity that is surrounding me. I can just let it bounce off me to them, be a mirror and do not let it touch me. After all it is their problem. They are trying to manipulate the situation to their advantage. It is obvious to all that there is dishonesty and manipulation on the part of one particular individual and I must not let it get to me.
Karma always catches up to these people when they least expect it. Everything is as it should and life will take care of it. So, to conclude, I am immediately deciding and committing to enjoy and cultivate the most positive emotions right now, today. It is possible and feasible to choose more joy, more fun, more peace of mind.
Remember, you can change your life the minute you make a new decision and you commit to it. Decide today to change that something in your life that is keeping you from experiencing joy and happiness. Life can be changed one decision at the time.
