My Challenge To You

I challenge you to flip the switch in your mind. What was the lowest point in your life? The thing that happened that made you terribly sad. The set of circumstances that hurt you the most. The thing that you thought that you'd never get over. Just think, now that you're reading this, YOU KNOW that you are meant to be equally as happy. Yep, you are meant to be happy TO THE SAME EXTREME AND DEGREE that someone or something made you sad, angry, upset, etc. CHOOSE to be happy. Embrace the situation whatever it is. Go ahead and accept it, and see the situation for whatever it is. I'm not saying don't be sad angry or upset about whatever. Being human dictates that you are going to feel these things. But you know what makes it all good is the fact that you have a CHOICE. Anything beyond your initial moment of realizing that this thing happened to you is totally up to you. And anyway you feel about the situation is totally up to you. CHOOSE to learn the lesson, feel the sadness or pain and move on. Then CHOOSE to be GRATEFUL FOR THAT EXPERIENCE. You can pull the good out of any situation, the worst of situations, I know you can and I know you will. Just flip the switch in your mind and things will get a whole lot better. I had a stroke at a time when everything seemed to be finally going my way. I was conscious all the time while I was having the stroke and I remember everything that was going on around me. I also remembered my daughter and it was my thoughts of her that helped me to hold on. A cousin of mine who shall remain nameless, came to visit me and she immediately wanted to take my daughter out of state to live with her. (She was a very negative person and she had a strong motive) I remember telling her that "I HAD THE STROKE, THE STROKE DIDN'T HAVE ME." I didn''t realize it at that time but I had "Flipped The Proverbial Switch." My prognosis wasn't good, the doctors said I'd never be able to walk, talk, or anything else and my sheer ability to see the situation for what it was helped me to survive. By the time I left the rehab facility I was walking, not good but never the less I was walking and talking. They gave me a wheel chair and I told them once they got me home with it to take the wheelchair back because I wouldn't be needing it anymore. I crawled up my stairs until I could walk and I refuse to use a cane because to me those were things designed to make me lean on them. I wanted to lean on my own weight. Today I'm walking, talking, typing, researching, working from home and learning new things everyday and I'm grateful for it. That's only part of the miracle. Another part is that I was able to finish sending my daughter to a private Catholic School and while it meant some sacrificing on my behalf it was doable and it was done. When life hands you lemons, give it back lemonade that you made SWEET. Why?, because you you've got the sugar and YOU CAN DO THAT! Don't let ANYTHING OR ANYONE HOLD YOU BACK FROM EXPERIENCING ALL THE GOOD THAT LIFE HAS FOR YOU. FLIP THE SWITCH!

Absence of consciousness is ego. Whenever the ego is absent, God is present." ---Osho

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