You will often hear don Miguel saying that our emotions are the key to our personal freedom. This is a very wise piece of information. I work with many people personally and the thing I observe the most is how often folks want to totally ignore what they are feeling throughout their day. When I ask them how they are and what is going on, they say things are good. Yet when you ask them if they got upset today they will say well yes, this morning with their husband, then later when the dishwasher repair man came to the house and then later at work when something was not typed correctly by the secretary. So what is going on here? Why are we ignoring the most important tool that we have for our personal growth? What this tells me is that opportunity after opportunity is happening for you all day long and you are too asleep to see them. If you do not acknowledge every time you have a fear based emotional reaction, you will allow your personal power and happiness drain away from you without even knowing it! And more than that you will be missing the chances that spirit is giving you to grow and change. We can only shift and change within the context of our challenges..not by reading books and attending workshops. Yes you will have ah-ha's and you will learn tools and techniques, get to meet new friends and learn perhaps a better belief system than the one you have now. But the bottom line is the action you take in your life to make those insights become practical applications. A warrior lives by the challenge. That means a warrior perceives everything as an opportunity to learn, even by observing the way they talk to themselves when they are waiting on line in the grocery or sitting on the toilet with constipation. Who cares where the opportunity comes from, a challenge is a challenge! You can learn as much from the way you victimize yourself on the toilet when you are constipated as you can during an argument with your partner. The point is to take advantage of all that life is gifting you with in every moment. Stop throwing way these events in your non-awareness. If you start seeing these happenings as an opportunity to get out of your hell, have clarity and grow rather than as "s-t happens" your life will turn around totally. Take a moment right now to think about how you perceive the events of your life. Do you see the challenges in your life as inconveniences? If you do this could be a great time to shift that since it is just a choice as to the way we chose to perceive our lives. Remember..everything is just a point of view! There is one thing I know for sure about this reality. "S-t" never happens; let's break that belief right now together. Life occurs and life works on the basis of action-reaction. Take action from clarity rather than your programmed reactions and you will be on your way to joyful emotions rather than fear based ones. With all my love & blessings. Sheri
