Your problems are breeding grounds
for either your suffering or your joy.
You, and only you,
can decide what you want out of your problems. The immediate response to a
problem situation is denial. But despite your denying, the problem doesn’t go
away. So you start getting angry, frustrated, depressed and, when the problem
refuses to let go, you eventually begin to suffer. Does your problem go away,
recede, with your suffering? Of course not! On the other hand, your suffering only
breeds new problems_physical ailments, depression, poor decision-making and a
perpetual state of ‘grumpiness’! As my good friend from high school, Jaidev,
profoundly says often, “The maladies of the body are but reflections of the
travails of the soul”!
So, let’s get this right. Problems will be
there. Whether you like it or not. If you are born and are living__as we all
are__your Life WILL have problems. The tenure and intensity of problems may
vary, but there cannot be a time in your lifetime that you don’t have any
problems! If this be true what is so intelligent about grieving over your
problems? Isn’t it a far more mature and intelligent response to think of your
problems as an opportunity to challenge yourself__to find joy where others find
suffering?
Take time to understand your situation,
your predicament, from all dimensions. Understand further that you cannot solve
anything in a nano-second and that sometimes you have to live with your problem(s).
This acceptance will not take your problem away, but will help you deal with it
better. When you operate from the core of your inner joy, you feel the pain,
but you don’t suffer. If you have a physical condition you may be writhing in
pain, but your sense of joy will not allow the pain to cripple your soul. If
you are in an emotional trauma – someone dies, someone betrays you – your joy
will not allow the loss, the grief to affect your mindfulness. Not to say that
your thoughts won’t go back to the one who is no more or pine for an
understanding where a misunderstanding prevails, but you will be able to rein
in your thoughts and look at what is than what should or would have been!
Of all the moments that make up your
lifetime, it is this choice to find joy, and inner peace, in times of
suffering, that makes the difference between “living” those moments and
“enduring” a lifetime!
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