Written By Alan Good
Attitude check. How do you feel about your life? What is your attitude right now? What does your attitude say about you?
Some might answer that life is good—no issues here. Others could say, “It’s good right now…but.” Perhaps you experienced something displeasing or are about to. You are the type that is “waiting for the other shoe to drop”. In other words, it’s good now but something will happen to harsh my mellow.
As you are inside (your thoughts), so your life becomes outside (what you attract). All of us have been through different experiences and as we allow these events to affect us, so we become. But why do life experiences have an impact on us? How do some, a very few, appear to go through life unaffected? Why are some possessed with a sweet attitude while others are sour?
One quote I read years ago had to do with “attitude verses altitude”. Where are your thoughts most days? Are they down in the depths of despair or on the heights of praise and thankfulness? Do you dwell on past hurts and slights or look up and give thanks for the day?
But you say, “It’s cloudy out there”. Yes, it snowed in April! My wife called it Canadian spring and moved on with her life. Her attitude is one of taking life as it comes. Yet she has suffered much.
Physical and emotional stress that might have knocked some on their… backs, has not stopped her from giving to others—thinking of her family and friends, first. Little has she complained or groused about her condition. She gardens, quilts and bakes, all the while as constant pain racks her body, caused by an untreatable illness.
We attract what we hold inside—positive higher vibrational thoughts or negative lower imaginings. Do we “see” through our thoughts, to a larger picture? Or do we believe our thoughts?
Once we see them as just that—thoughts in our brain—we can look past them. When we wake up—are conscious—we can see these as wraiths of the past or future, not reality. How many times have you worried over some future event only to observe later that there wasn’t anything to fear? Sometimes it takes a certain moment to give us that gift of awareness.
“Sympathy comes from acquaintance with the profoundest experiences so that a man has had selfishness, thoughtlessness and conceit burnt from his life”, stated James Allen.
Whether we arrive at a sudden overwhelming event or just wake up one day, we can become conscience and remain in the present. It begins with an attitude of gratitude—with looking outside our selves.
Try it. When confronted by a thought about some future event that may try to destroy your peace, instead of worrying, stop and breathe. Feel your breath. Next, and this is important, don’t judge the situation. Don’t try to rush through it. Accept what is—you are alive, present, God’s creation.
Being non-judgemental means trusting in God and KNOWING He is in it. Next time, worry verses faith.
