I watched a horrific movie the other night - City of God, the pseudo-documentary in story form about life in the Rio de Janeiro and San Paolo slums - with all the drug dealing, money corruption, police brutality, and how the youth there have no care at all for life or limb, and lack any kind of hope or way to improve their lives.
Being empathic, I felt devastated. The feeling I walked away with was of such utter hopelessness and powerlessness in the face of such overwhelming enormous corruption, greed, violence and despair that I lay awake all night.
Next morning I felt as if a train had run over me. After I had finally resolved my upset with good ole EFT and kind comfort from a couple friends, I felt the most amazing, sweet, permeating sense of peace fill me. I went outside to my little yard - which only 3 years ago was literally the smelly, centipede-filled, compost/dump for my landlady's kitchen detritus and the yard-man's discarded stuff, and is now my own personal jungle of lush growing green - and I sat in one of the chairs and allowed myself to just breathe deeply and feel grateful down to my core.
Because, if I tell myself the truth, I have it easy. WE have it easy. Compared to the city portrayed in City of God, most of us live in absolute heaven. We get to make choices about who we are and what we want to do and where we want to live. We get to be entrepreneurs and energy practitioners and internet marketers and MLMers and speakers and teachers and artists and coaches - and like it's possible - POSSIBLE - to succeed.
Many of the people on my mailing list are real go-getters, unsatisfied with the status quo, always wanting to improev and expand their lives and their possibilities. Imagine living without any kind of hope - no thanks!
What struck me that next morning, and has every day since then, is how simple feeling good can be. I think, really it's all we need to do. Just to take in a deep breath and look around and be thankful for the sky, birdsong, the colors in the grass and flowers, or the beauty of the snowflakes or sheen of water on the road after the rain.For the privilege of owning a car, having good food readily available, and education at our fingertips.
I'm not saying we are all gazillionaires. I'm saying that, here in the US, and in many of the countries in which my readers live, possibilities and options are right in front of us that are just waiting for us to reach out and grab them. How fortunate we are! Even when I was desperately broke, I still felt hope, I still felt like there was something I could do to help myself.
There's no need to strive. There's no need to push, to compete, to worry, to hold fear or anger or resentment. All those things hold us back from the ease and beauty of what we really deserve, and what is right at our fingertips: peace. Happiness and contentment. Well-being and confidence - it's all ours if we can remember to breathe it in and focus on what we prefer in the moment and continually move towards that, rather than focusing on what's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong.
Sometimes we are so hard on ourselves - even expecting to be perfect. Yesterday in a session with someone, we laughed as he realized the fultility of trying to be "good" all the time. If you look out towards the end of the universe, how many black holes would there be? Uncountable, I'd guess.
Well, if the universe itself has black holes - which are so dense they swallow light, and anything that falls into one gets sucked in forever, never to be seen again - my question is: why do we seem to think we haven't got any emotional or mental black holes in us? It'd be un-natural!
Of course we'll have down days, mad days, sad days, sick days, resenting days. So? So work it out, get over it and make new choices! We GET to do that! Even if we lived in those awful slums, we are still the boss of our feelings. I never said it was easy! But we still hold the reins.
All we need to do is be us. Authentic. Expressing ourselves as best and as responsibly as we can. From our core. And radiate our highest intentions as best we can as much as we can. Make mistakes, get mad, fly off the handle, cry - so what? We all know who's in there, and that that temporary emotional state is not YOU.
Catch yourself if you feel like you're sliding. Make new choices. i think it's the real challenge of life to ask yourself every day, "Am I in alignment with who I really am? What would love do in this case? What am I grateful for in this moment?"
Don't just take one day a year for gratitude - make each day a cause for deep gratefulness and joy for yourself.
There's a little giftie for you right HERE. Print it out, hang it in indirect light to keep it from fading, and know that I love you!
aloha -
Angela Treat Lyon
That's at angelatreatlyon.com/p/nov06/gratitude.html
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