“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it....This will miraculously transform your whole life."
~ Eckhart Tolle
Let's test this assertion by shifting
our resistance reactions into acceptance responses - as many as we can, as best we can - as we aim to stay mindfully present.
"It's not easy," you may be saying. I hear you.
But perhaps we can begin the miraculous transformation by saying something like:
"Today, this is going to come easily. Maybe even gracefully and beautifully. I can do this. In fact, I'm going to welcome every moment as if I had chosen it.
I'm going to trust that every moment holds blessings for me. I am going to have fun with this."
Today is the first day of the rest of our lives. Let's make it the first day of our becoming adept at working with what is.
May the whole of our lives be transformed as we grow into greater loving of all that life holds.
With hope,
Charlene
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HOPE: Through each passage and season may you trust the goodness of life.
(from The Twelve Gifts of Birth)
