The Master's wisdom # 21 – The way to live
You are here to enjoy life not to fight it
Credit: Stefan mueller
Simple, right?
But so many do fight life. They try to change their reality, think so much how to inflict a certain outcome on their world, make a long list of goals and tasks ("50 things I must do before I reach 40"), set a specific agenda for themselves and their families.
At some point, they discover the new-age spirituality. Which tells them to think positive, to meditate, to focus on the desired goal, to imagine the red sports car, to have what they want clearly in their vision. And they are told to keep these rituals X times a day.
Is the fight gone? No! It's just shifted. Instead of bothering thoughts they now have a new task-master. They now fight hard to have the correct visions, the right method of meditation, in order to create the desired changes in their life.
Why people fight life so much?
Trust yourself, and allow your creations to come to you.
Simple.
I am blessed with this post, as simple as it is, the meaning is profound.
But do you think setting goals is not appropriate?
For the long run setting goals is not effective. It only brings stress. More than that, it limits the creation.
If you create with "wide brush strokes", you will allow your creations to surprise you.
These people that outline plans for there lives, setting milestones sometimes forget life isnt a straight line. There is a proverb my people say, would translate it. It says life is not straight like the barrel of a gun, its like a horse whip that flings to both sides
You are a Yórúbà steemian. Awesome proverb.
Oya give the world indeginous translation of that proverb.
I choose to be happy, take my ease and enjoy life to the fullest. Why should i trouble myself with visions that only cause grief because of the fear of having them unfulfilled.
Thanks @nomad-magus for sharing such a wonderful wisdom packed piece.
Thanks, @nomad-magus for the well-written article okay goals help us look outside the box but the problem is that we set unrealistic goals and at the end of the day if we don't attain our goals we end up depressed. I remember when I had just joined steemit, My friend used to get about 30-40 Sbds per week so I set a goal that i should get the same that week forgetting it is the voters that decide not me and you know what that week i only managed to scoop only 7SBDS I cannot explain how i felt , I got stressed till I got over it so ever since then I just let stuff flow on its own I donot force any thing .
Indeed.
Power won't work. Good for you to understand this so quickly!
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape.
Hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve but suspecting, in their heart of hearts that they will remain unloved forever.
Time for a deep breath
Hmmm so many people fights life because of the mindset that life is a battle. Some fights so much and loose their focus not totally but following the trail of the battle and leaving their right turning into a place of rest. Life is easy , life is good we just need to know this .
It’s is all by planning not fighting without plans
I think that all this happens through the society that says if you do not do "x" thing you will not have done anything in your life, that's where that fear of feeling that you did not take advantage of your life for not getting those experiences or doing those things.
but life is about something else, it's about enjoying your experience in your own way and be happy without bothering anyone, or criticize the one who enjoys it in a different way.
I Respect to receive respect.
Very well said. I thought exactly the same about new-age spirituality.
There are many who put the thoughts into the driving seat, but as I say so often, they are merely at the effect of our Soul which has always created and will always create the reality it wants to experience. Whenever we say:" this is not the reality I want to experience" it means either that our thoughts are not in alignment at all with our Heart, or that the outer world hasn't yet started reflecting back our "new" inner sense of Beingness ( e.g when we are still in the process of a life shake-up).
This is also why I am not a fan of "How to" advice. Each one is unique and has his or her own means that they can find out. Of course, there are some general practises which help, like training one's breath. But when we simply follow somebody's instruction and make its success dependent on the teacher's certificate or popularity or what not, than we direct our power not internally but externally and give it away. It is all about the experience of progress through self-experimenting.
Whenever we look outside we will eventually get a 'No', whenever we look inside we eventually get a 'Yes'.
... And when the outside no and the inner yes are aligned, one is on grace.
Good one 👍
Maybe, just maybe they do not want to feel they wasted their life when they get old. I personally don’t plan much anything. Actualy, I did have my own dreams to become true, I did achieve some of them already, but not the way you mentioned it “those 50 things before 40...” Life can as well become too stressful, tight and too disciplined. Balance in life is very important.