FACING HARDSHIP
Hard to face…..
American novelist James Baldwin said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
Chris Rock echoed this quote in his opening of Saturday Night Live this week.
It is incredibly true. You cannot change what you do not acknowledge. And yet, acknowledgement takes a person who is willing, ready, and able to face the truth, the challenges, and the hardships.
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, more unexpected events and issues hit the forefront daily in the news. We are living in incredibly challenging times. Keep informed, but do not become a news junkie. Take care of your mind/body/spirit. Meditate, exercise, eat healthy and focus on what is working in your life and in the world. Find a way to fill your heart with gratitude. It will give you the energy and strength to face the immenseness of the issues.
We can keep positive and still face difficulty. They do not operate to the exclusion of one another. We can have opposing emotions simultaneously. You may meet the love of your life at the same time a dear friend is undergoing a severe illness. We can hold the space to process everything. We are limitless beings in that regard.
We often hear the saying, “choose your battle”. This is usually in reference to not allowing everything someone does upset you. A battle does not have to be fought in order for issues to be addressed, but challenges do have to be faced. There are challenges to be face personally & professionally, in our immediate society and our global community now more than ever. And yet, we must choose where we will put our attention. Then we must decide DIRECTION. If your attention does not have direction, then there is no action, no purpose and nothing can be resolved. So, give your attention direction and know that you don’t have to tackle everything. Choose what you can face and what you must. Choose what you’d like to and what you need to put your focus, energy, and effort toward.
We get triggered by emotions. We can use that fire to spur us on like jet fuel to take a positive plan of action. But that burst of jet fuel quickly burns out once we launch and we must NOT try and create an explosive atmosphere to continue our work. Consciousness should be the driving force behind the wheel, not emotions. If we keep reacting and creating explosive habits, then our purpose becomes tainted with the toxicity of our anger. Let the emotion spark you in a direction but the tank must be filled with the wisdom of consciousness and we must continuously work to be self-aware, understanding and to be centered in our being. Operate from peace, understanding and compassion or the fire of emotion will burn you out and deviate you from your purpose & principles.
It is an incredibly overwhelming time in the history, but how we face challenges personally and in the world is a choice. We choose how we vibrate and experience the cosmos. Elevate your vibration be gentle with yourself, find your calm in the eye of the storm.
