Recently I was in a situation that wasn’t what I wanted, but there wasn’t anything I could do to change it.
Usually I’m the type of person who takes action to change things when I want an outcome, so this presented me with a challenge.
Instead of staying stagnant I stopped asking myself, “How can I change this?”, and started asking myself, “Where’s the grace in this?”
Ask a better question and you get a better answer.
As soon as I started asking the better question I was able to see exactly how this situation was serving me, how I needed to learn to be in the present and not in the future, how I needed to learn to let go of a complete attachment to the outcome.
And I was able to find peace and to grow.
Because I saw the grace in it.
No matter where you look, all ancient wisdom points to one thing…
We don’t always take the straight path. Sometimes we take the long road. Or no road at all.
Recently I’ve been making a conscious effort to say nice things to people.
Mindfulness meditation, when done regularly over a long period of time, helps to create space between stimulus and response.