When things go wrong or not according to our plans or wishes!
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Things happen in life when we feel frustrated or we get angry or upset.
I am sure this happens to each and every one of us, humans. When this happens we start thinking 'why is this bad situation happening to me?' or 'why cannot I fix this ?' etc. etc.
Here are just 3 practical suggestions from my observations or my reading of different texts that I think are very universal and timeless methods of bringing the calmness of reality and clarity to the situation.
(1) ACCEPT IT AS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE.
Acceptance and gratitude work powerful magic. We want things to happen differently but as you will see in the next 2 points I mention below that I think most of it is beyond our control. Everything that happens to us in our lives can be considered our teacher or our lessons to be learned. This attitude will not only help us in the short term but also help us improve our emotional maturity for the longer term.
(2) TRUST THE UNIVERSE. WE ARE SMALL PARTS OF A BIG SYSTEM.
Practice believing in your personal troubling times that what it (the Universe) is doing is the right thing. Trust that everything ( our lives, our actions, the "other people", materials, possessions, Sun, Moon, Galaxies, etc ) is actually part of the bigger system (The Universe). Although we might think of ourselves as powerful beings and with our own actions create so many changes around us. we are just minuscule pieces of it and whatever it is doing is the way it was always supposed to happen that way!!
(3) WE ARE NOT VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE "OTHER PEOPLE". CHIPS OF THE SAME BLOCK.
We all have faults ( as we might use the term when we say other people have faults :) ). We tend to think that we are right and that we ourselves are standing on higher ground or putting ourselves on a pedestal and think there is nothing wrong with us and that it is always the other person at fault. But we are all chips of the same old block. We have human nature that has developed over thousands of years and we cannot really change it easily as individuals.
Check my other blog on this topic: search my blog "other people"
Best regards!
-Neel. (Nilanjan Sarkar. Neels - Nirvana. Blogs. Videos.)
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