There are two ways to look at the word Living. Living: meaning your heart is still beating and you are drawing breath -existing. Or Living: meaning you are using your power of choice to seek hope, happiness, and health; you are actively choosing to Live.
In creating this website, I am hoping to encourage all that visit and participate, to make a very conscious choice to seek hope, happiness, and health. This is easier said than done. As a participant in this concept you have to be willing to acknowledge where you are in life. A truthful “where you are” look; the good and the bad. Accept what choices have been yours, and allow the actions and consequences of others to stay with them. As you begin to separate what is truly yours from what has been heaped upon you by others; you will be able to begin to take one part of your life and make the choice to change it. Do not change more than one thing at a time. Some of them may be interconnected, but focus on one aspect at a time or you will frustrate yourself and your process.
As you begin your journey of adjustment, write things down, hold yourself accountable, and if needs be when you become frustrated – it will happen – look back at your notes, if it is helpful, and see how far you have come. Focus only on you. You make the choice of how you are going to approach your situations in life, and what is going to be your reaction. Each reaction is caused by a certain emotion. Take a 5 second breath, and try to identify your emotion. Emotions are given to us as a signal to take action, or move away from something. Own your emotions. NOBODY can make you feel an emotion you don’t want to have. Use them as a signal to you. Decide whether to act, or relax.
I know that every day, I have to mentally walk through this process. It is a learned process, and I was not born in an environment that taught, or cultivated this. Be kind to yourself, in all that you do. Be sensitive to those around you, because they are on their own journey, and may be struggling with issues that are unseen. Living by choice, in truth, will bring about results.