Our Challenges - Our Blessings

When you get to the end of the day, do you take time to sit quietly and reflect on the day? Are you able to set aside a few minutes to evaluate your day, see where you’re at, how you feel about the day and the events of the day?

I can hear almost every one of you saying, are you crazy, I barely have time to breathe! I completely understand that, but here’s the secret…

Our brains are programed within our DNA to focus on all the negative aspects of our lives. It is within our nature as human beings to live in a way that we are constantly looking out for anything that affects our safety, anything that will bring us harm. We have an inherent deep connection to protecting ourselves and ensuring that we survive in a world that is full of danger. This is why we become so easily offended and so easily hurt and angered by others. It’s what we focus on.

My spirit guide always tells me what you pay attention to, you become conscious of. And I love this because she’s so right. So how do you get to see your challenges as your blessings?

It’s all about reprogramming your mind to focus on all the positive aspects of every aspect of your life. And of course it is all the very difficult challenges that you face, that end up being your greatest blessings.

I had a client a while back who found herself in an extremely abusive relationship. She was so beaten down by this person, that she no longer believed in herself or her abilities to live her life on her own. Working with her, she changed the way she saw herself and just through small deeds that she did for herself, brought about a great change for her. She managed to squirrel away enough money to make the break and by that time, she had bought her own house, furnished it, paid for herself for a new car and set herself up for a great new life living her own truth and not the false truth of the person who had been so successful for so long of robbing her of herself. When speaking to her now, she will tell you, that this time of her life, whilst being the most challenging, was also her greatest blessing. What she got out of this experience is that she is a capable, beautiful person, who is worthy of love and who is worthy of living an extraordinary life. And this change didn’t come easy for her, it didn’t come quickly either – it was years of planning of years of working on herself.

We all have the same strength and the same capabilities as this beautiful client of mine. The advice I can give is that whenever you find yourself in difficult waters, where you feel like everything is just going wrong, force yourself to see what good can come out of it. Write it down. Writing it down takes it out of our heads, gives us a reference point and lets us see an accumulation of positive things that have happened in our lives, that we so easily forget.

When you start to have a conversation with yourself and it’s focused on what a bad person you are, how much of a failure you and how you can’t get anything right, how broke you are and how awful your life is. Stop yourself. Actually say to yourself I’m not having this conversation, and end it. Change the way you speak to yourself. Take your relationship with yourself seriously and treat yourself with love and compassion.

You will see in no time that you’ve changed the way you think. You’ve changed the way you see your life and you’ve changed the way in which you show up in the world. Give it a try and let me know how it goes.

As always

Yours in serive

Glynis