Going with the flow

Life never seems to go according to plan does it? 

We can control our thoughts, our choices, and our actions.  We can work hard to achieve change within ourselves.  We really are so powerful.  We have great evident abilities and we even have latent abilities, waiting to grow.

We can not however,  control the decisions of others.  Decisions can be made that you had no control over and yet they still affect you. This can range from minor inconveniences to tragedies.  Unfortunately this is one of the sad laws of mortality. There are things we can control and things we can not. 

Does this fact make life harder? Yes, it can. Does this fact leave us helpless,  being subject to someone else's whims? No. We always have a choice when it comes to our thoughts and our actions.  (With the exception of slavery.)

The choice is ours to let inconveniences become real frustrations,  or to let them pass by us, not touching us. Even in a tragedy we have the choice of how we respond to the event. 

I think it is very tempting to want someone to blame when life doesn't go according to plan.  Be it God, be it a group of people or one specific person,  we want someone to direct our anger at. I'm not saying there aren't guilty people in the world.  There are, there are plenty. 

But focusing on the blame and only the blame does not give us our power.  It takes away from it. There is a difference between acknowledging a wrong and obsessing over the wrong.

We get the power by not wavering in our integrity and by learning from every situation.  (It is difficult,  but so important. )

Find ways you can learn and move on from things in your life right now. 

Have faith in yourself,  with some reflection, meditation and good work you can get there. 

-Camille

P.S.  I received my yoga training @ www.gobodhiyoga.com