I get a lot of emails, which I love. I've just sat with my cup of tea and gone through them.
I love being of service, I mean, I took vows of service as an Ishaya AND I really love helping people who want to do things differently - which is handy, isn’t it?
I love sharing my experience of the choices that mean you have peace and calm in your life, and equally those choices that mean you have stress, overwhelm, negativity - pain.
For me it all comes down to ONE thing. And this one thing is this:
Heaven and hell is all your choice.
Realising how you do that to yourself is an incredible moment. A real "aha!" and a chance to move forward, a chance to do something differently - IF you're willing.
When you take that half step back you can see this clearer and sooner. When you’re rushing, when you’re so involved in the troubles of life, when you’re IN the drama you can’t see this so well.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got?
Slow down a touch. Take regular moments to get your perspective and your baseline back. Nothing is lost through regular recalibration, everything is gained.
The ability to see where you create hell or heaven for yourself is such a wonderful gift. After all, life isn’t so much about the circumstances, but how you deal with these circumstances.
You can’t control everything. Sometimes, often times, you’re just thrown a wobbly one and left to get on and deal with it.
Your ability to choose your attitude, choose which thoughts you listen to and which you ignore, choose to be wrapped up in a past or a future you have no control over or be present …
All these things are priceless in not only getting what you want from life, but enjoying each and every step along the way.
Each and every step.
It all begins now. All of life is crystallised into right now. This is it. Such a joy because you - if you allow yourself - get to start again, fresh, over and over. A restart.
Go well, make it about what you can do, now.
Arjuna
PS.
If you're interested in this sort of thing, you might really like a free guide I wrote - 108 ways you can remember your choice for calm, your choice for peace, your choice for freedom.
Here it is if you'd like a copy: