You Have Two Choices
In any moment, you have two profound choices: Resist what is or allow it to be the way it is.
When you resist what is, you struggle. You experience stress. You suffer.
Unfortunately, our minds are wired for resistance. The human mind wants to change everything.
To illustrate, try to think about a person in your life with whom you don’t hold any grievances. No matter how much you love someone, invariably you want to change something about them—and probably many things.
You can also look at the room you’re in right now. If you focus on any object, you may notice that you want to change something about it. It could be the positioning of a pen, the hum of your computer or two people talking in the background.
Right now, my mind wants to change the sound of my neighbor mowing his lawn. How dare he mow his lawn on a Friday morning!
The opposite of resisting something—or wanting to change it—is to accept things as they are. When you have acceptance, you allow things to be as they are in the moment. Acceptance doesn’t mean passivity or apathy—it simply means allowing the reality of the moment to be as it is.
I might want my neighbor to stop mowing so I can enjoy nature’s silence, but the reality is he’s mowing. My desire to change what is only creates repressed negative energy within me. What good does that serve?
If you allow things to be as they are right now, you become infinitely more resourceful. In a more centered state, you can tap into the creative impulse. You become a more productive, happy person.
The choice is yours …
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