Learning to create during, instead of reacting to, life's situations is mastery. I have seen it. A person I admire, in a sticky situation, is able to remove themselves, become part of the universe, create a solution to a problem, or challenging situation, all while remaining calm and in themselves. No loss of self, no self loathing or emotionality and keeping self in tact.
I sometimes feel like a blubbering idiot instead of who I really am in some situations, all because I cannot create this person in the particular circumstance or situation. Usually a circumstance that is close to my heart, where I've been repeatedly disrespected, or I'm being asked to do something more than I was originally planning on doing. I tend to react, fall apart, then end up picking the pieces of myself up so I can go to bed and sleep off the crumble.
Picture a version of you looking in on a recent past, sticky situation from above, through a skylight in the ceiling of the room. How would you create a new self to handle the situation? Who would you create within yourself to approach the situation in a positive manner.
Find Elizabeth Gilbert BIG MAGIC here
After the reaction, I look down through the skylight and see someone I don't know, someone I'm not sure I want to know or claim to be myself. It is disheartening. All the while I know that inside me lies the calm, mature person who wants to create a way to handle the situation in the way I envision it being handled. Calmly, in a positive manner and with a direction pointed towards amnesty.
I was just reading on Facebook and ran across an Elizabeth Gilbert post, an excerpt follows:
"If we try to see things with the most generous eyes—searching for the truth, yes, but then bestowing upon that truth the brightest and kindest interpretation—we can learn how to perceive a more beautiful world. Do that, and I promise you this: You will get to live in one."
Perceive and Create that world, the power lies within ourselves! Elizabeth Gilbert is awesome read more...
Read more: http://www.oprah.com/inspiration/elizabeth-gilbert-power-of-perception#ixzz49gsr5DDN
I sometimes feel like a blubbering idiot instead of who I really am in some situations, all because I cannot create this person in the particular circumstance or situation. Usually a circumstance that is close to my heart, where I've been repeatedly disrespected, or I'm being asked to do something more than I was originally planning on doing. I tend to react, fall apart, then end up picking the pieces of myself up so I can go to bed and sleep off the crumble.
Picture a version of you looking in on a recent past, sticky situation from above, through a skylight in the ceiling of the room. How would you create a new self to handle the situation? Who would you create within yourself to approach the situation in a positive manner.
Find Elizabeth Gilbert BIG MAGIC here
After the reaction, I look down through the skylight and see someone I don't know, someone I'm not sure I want to know or claim to be myself. It is disheartening. All the while I know that inside me lies the calm, mature person who wants to create a way to handle the situation in the way I envision it being handled. Calmly, in a positive manner and with a direction pointed towards amnesty.
I was just reading on Facebook and ran across an Elizabeth Gilbert post, an excerpt follows:
"If we try to see things with the most generous eyes—searching for the truth, yes, but then bestowing upon that truth the brightest and kindest interpretation—we can learn how to perceive a more beautiful world. Do that, and I promise you this: You will get to live in one."
Perceive and Create that world, the power lies within ourselves! Elizabeth Gilbert is awesome read more...
Read more: http://www.oprah.com/inspiration/elizabeth-gilbert-power-of-perception#ixzz49gsr5DDN
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