by Cheryl Scheinin

Created on: December 27, 2010

What does it take for people to learn about their own true happiness in life? When life seems to bring you down a few pegs or so; it will hit you like a ton of bricks with unfinished business. Your life will just seem to stagnate in one place and not move in the direction you want to go. How do we begin to unravel the mess that made us fall backwards in time instead of moving forward to another dimension of inner peace, love, and tranquility in our daily lives once again?

 It’s very hard to break old routine and patterns once you continue to see yourself standing in the same place. We want to blame everyone else for our unhappiness and where we seem to continuously stand and not point the finger at the person who began the journey in the first place. Now stop and think for a moment in time where the troubles began and how do we fix the problems to find our happiness? What made us take the wrong direction in life which brought us to a different path then where we should be standing now?

Sometimes life can be unfair with what obstacles we are challenged with everyday in our lives. If it isn’t the job that is giving us deadlines, or possibly the people that we work for who are constantly adding more stress than we can handle. Then we have the responsibilities of family and friends who are going through the same thing in life. How do we face all the challenges that hit us hard until we find that we have no energy left inside our bodies to overcome the obstacles to begin with? It feels like a constant battle that seems to never end. One of my best friends who passed away recently use to call this cycle “The World is like a hamster wheel; we continue to get caught up in the trap as it spins continuously to no end. Then finally, we are sitting in a space of fear, loneliness, exhaustion, and whatever else begins to rear its head in front of us.

 How do we begin to relax and take a nice deep cleansing breath for a moment to realize that we are important too? If we don’t stop and learn to nurture our lives and take some responsibilities for our mind and the human heart that we live in today; then we have sickness or illnesses to contend with. It’s about time that we take a week or so off and look at what needs to be changed in our lives! So with this “New Year of 2011” heading into our direction, “Why not set new goals or take a long vacation to rest up and see what we have to do first?” Remember that we are the ones who have to seriously break the habits, old routine and patterns in order for us to find happiness. Stop what you’re doing and begin to focus only on “YOU” for today! You are the most precious gift of all that “God” loves and adore in each and every one of us that lives and breathes in this beautiful “Universe” we live in! We have to love and appreciate “Who we are” as an individual and seek our own love and happiness in this life time.

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