Facing Life’s Challenges
Life is a series of challenges and how we face them will determine the quality of our lives. Do you panic and become frantic or do you stay positive and energetic in the face of a challenge? Do you make small problems big or do you make big problems small and dissolve them into nothing? How we face the normal events of each day is generally how we will face the bigger challenges. People who respond positively will emerge stronger and wiser while those who react negatively will regress into depression.
People who panic don't have control over their mental energies. Their minds are unfocused and they exaggerate events. Their confusion complicates things and even small challenges appear to be big problems. They usually react emotionally to situations, so they become easily irritable, anxious and frustrated. Due to their unstable emotional, people who panic are often undependable and are unable to take appropriate actions.
Negative people see everything as a problem. They generate an incredible amount of mental and physical stress. When anything comes up that disturbs their comfort zone, they will think and say things like, "It's too difficult. I can't do it. I have never done it before. I don't know how. Why is this happening to me?"
Succumbing to negative emotional states creates nothing but more negative reactions such as jealousy, hatred, blame, fear and depression. That helps neither themselves, the situation nor the people around them.
If we want to successfully face life's challenges, we need a positive mindset based on wisdom. With our minds focused, balanced and aware, we can respond to any situation or challenge confidently. By perceiving and acting through clear perception and wisdom rather than through unbalanced feelings, we can objectively size up a situation in the moment and set the right energy in motion.
Confident and positive people never buckle under when a challenge arises or hesitate to do what needs to be done. They have the attitude that each challenge which comes is cajoling them to wake up. It is telling them that the problem that seems so difficult is nothing if they are resourceful. By taking initiative to facilitate or fix a situation, they simplify life for themselves and others.
A life which is not useful, productive and contributing is a wasted life. We don't want to waste this precious gift of life. It is only when we spend all of our energy in positivity that we won't have any energy left for negativity or self pity. By seeing life's challenges as positive pinpricks - just like acupuncture which is stimulating rather than pain-inducing - we can confidently face each challenge positively.
When we think in positives, act in positives and live in positives, nothing is a problem as we will see every problem as a challenge, as an opportunity to grow and mature.
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