I woke up this morning and decided to put my thoughts into words as they may be of some help to someone who happens to stumble across this blog in their search of the Internet.
If I look back over the last few weeks I have found myself going through a particularly tough time, that is tough by my standards, in coming to terms with a senior member of my family who has suffered a stroke. And as a consequence coming to terms with what appears to be a significant change in personality traits of that person.
It is those changes that I am finding very difficult to come to terms with and accept. Because the person I am referring to is my Mum.
It was all beginning to affect my ability to concentrate on my work and it was mentally draining. My only hope was that it would gradually start to get easier as time moved on. But in my heart I knew that it wasn’t going to get easier in fact quite the opposite – the outlook was more of the same and possibly worse.
Keep in mind that I am a pretty positive sort of guy by nature.
I’ve been working hard at the task. Going through the process of trying to lift Mum’s spirits and her belief with gentle chats about how I believed she would get better if she worked hard at her rehabilitation. But sadly I wasn’t getting anywhere and I gradually came to the conclusion that it was an uphill task.
So I needed another angle to work on. And I knew that it was the only angle that I was totally in control of – ME!
Now we all know that sometimes when you keeping searching and searching for the answer it gets ever harder and harder to find.
Then something else in your world starts to take control of your focus and for a short while other issues take a front seat.
And I can only believe that is what happened because suddenly I had the answer to my difficulties.
As so often happens – well it seems to in my life – when you least expect it a solution comes right out of nowhere.
Or does it come from nowhere or does it come from our subconscious.
I know from everything that I have read about and practice in terms of visualization and meditation, that the subconscious mind is the most powerful aid to problem solving that we possess.
What we must do when it comes to dealing with any challenge in our life is to hand it over to our subconscious mind and it will produce the answer or answers as long as we our patient and have belief in its power.
I know all this to be true but why didn’t I do it in this situation.
Sometimes we just forget. But it doesn’t matter as soon as we put things out of our conscious mind then our subconscious takes over – whether you believe it or not – and as long as we are ready and receptive – listening – the solutions come.
As soon as the answers ‘appear’ write them down to prevent yourself forgetting them.
Keep in mind that once your subconscious mind is in control these clues to help you can appear from anywhere. Something you listen to on the radio or TV, something that you read, something you hear in a conversation.
And that is exactly what happened in my current situation. A few days ago I was doing some research for a Concise Report that I am working on when I came across something I thought would be useful on the Internet – in fact I can’t even remember where – but that doesn’t matter.
What is important is that I wrote down the words that leapt out at me and they are now imbedded in my everyday thinking and are helping to build my inner strength, my inner muscle everyday. And those words are.
“Life doesn’t get easier – you just get stronger”
Brilliant the answer to my problem in a very short succinct phrase and one that I will carry with me and pass on to anyone that I meet that maybe in need a of lift and perhaps needs a little clue in how to deal with the challenges on their journey of life.
Take them and make use of them yourself. I believe those few words are one of the secrets of how to keep moving forward in life.
Until the next time,
Carpe Diem – Seize The Day