Every moment life is throwing some challenge to us. My friends wife is fighting with Cancer. She take her pain as a challenge to increase her capacity to remain calm and watchful in extreme painful situation. Her husband take the same situation to remain alert and watchful in extremely sad situation. He is using this situation not to lose emotional control in worst situation. They are using this situation for their spiritual growth.
Normally when people come to know that they have some life threatening disease or they have very less time they get depressed, they get angry towards life and god. Every situation is either a stepping stone or a hurdle on your path. You have to learn how to keep composure and how to find the balance in so called adverse situations. In any situation you can find your center and stay calm and relax.
Things in themselves are truly nigher good nor bad. On your journey to know yourself there comes a state in which you realize that the effect of circumstances on ourselves depends entirely upon our attitude to these circumstances.
If we keep positive attitude, we can look at things as learning experiences which could make us stronger or an opportunities to become more conscious and alert. But you can also look at the same thing or event as a blow from fate, misfortune or bad luck.
If you look at the things as misfortune or bad luck then you will feel down, you will feel depressed. Then life will become miserable. You are the master of circumstances because you can change the meaning of any situation just by having an attitude towards it. Your attitude can change situations and your life.
I read somewhere about Bruce Lee, in 1970 his back get severely injured because he didn't warm up properly during one of his weight-training routines. The doctors suggested him to rest in bed. They to forget kung fu because he would never kick again. To someone whose life is nothing but kung fu this would be a devastating blow. But see the power of attitude, in those six months he wrote furiously, penning down his own thoughts and methods of the martial arts which he loved so much. You will not believe that in those six months he had written eight, two-inch volumes of notes. After those six months, slowly he started his workout again.
In every great human effort there will be always an abundance of adverse obstructions, interventions and critical states of affairs which have to be conquered. If you give too much importance to your so called misfortunes then their power will get multiply. Instead just ask these questions, "How can I overcome this hurdle", "How can I use this situation?", "What can I learn from this?", "How can this adversity make me more stronger?", "How can I use this time?"
Answers are within you. You can turn any situation in your favor just by changing your attitude. This is what real intelligence is. Use every situation, use every adversity, don't resist but redirect the force of misfortune in new direction. In the movie 'The karate kid' Jakie Chan says, "Everything is kung fu!".
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Normally when people come to know that they have some life threatening disease or they have very less time they get depressed, they get angry towards life and god. Every situation is either a stepping stone or a hurdle on your path. You have to learn how to keep composure and how to find the balance in so called adverse situations. In any situation you can find your center and stay calm and relax.
Things in themselves are truly nigher good nor bad. On your journey to know yourself there comes a state in which you realize that the effect of circumstances on ourselves depends entirely upon our attitude to these circumstances.
If we keep positive attitude, we can look at things as learning experiences which could make us stronger or an opportunities to become more conscious and alert. But you can also look at the same thing or event as a blow from fate, misfortune or bad luck.
If you look at the things as misfortune or bad luck then you will feel down, you will feel depressed. Then life will become miserable. You are the master of circumstances because you can change the meaning of any situation just by having an attitude towards it. Your attitude can change situations and your life.
I read somewhere about Bruce Lee, in 1970 his back get severely injured because he didn't warm up properly during one of his weight-training routines. The doctors suggested him to rest in bed. They to forget kung fu because he would never kick again. To someone whose life is nothing but kung fu this would be a devastating blow. But see the power of attitude, in those six months he wrote furiously, penning down his own thoughts and methods of the martial arts which he loved so much. You will not believe that in those six months he had written eight, two-inch volumes of notes. After those six months, slowly he started his workout again.
In every great human effort there will be always an abundance of adverse obstructions, interventions and critical states of affairs which have to be conquered. If you give too much importance to your so called misfortunes then their power will get multiply. Instead just ask these questions, "How can I overcome this hurdle", "How can I use this situation?", "What can I learn from this?", "How can this adversity make me more stronger?", "How can I use this time?"
Answers are within you. You can turn any situation in your favor just by changing your attitude. This is what real intelligence is. Use every situation, use every adversity, don't resist but redirect the force of misfortune in new direction. In the movie 'The karate kid' Jakie Chan says, "Everything is kung fu!".
If you like this post or feel this is helpful for fellow travelers then please share it on Twitter, Facebook and Stumbleupon or any social bookmarking site which you use.
