Ok, so I am, as we say in this family, putting a pin in it for just a minute. Let’s pause. Take a breath. Whatever you do when you are in need of a little bit of soul medicine.
I love a good meme. The funny, the dumb, the pseudo-inspirational, give them all to me. And as we close in on 2018 (holy crap time) the dumpster fire, Chris Farley rolling down hill, and little kid on the slide, you know the one, memes and gifs abound. And my favorite, which rolls though my personal newsfeed at a frequency I cannot even quantify right now, is this one:
Here is the deal everyone and the biggest secret to starting to find peace in your life no matter what happens around you…NOTHING IS HAPPENING TO YOU. It’s just happening. My apologies for the yelling, but I need you to hear that and there is no font for a stern serious voice, so caps it is. You don’t need a plot twist, that implies some one or some event is about to come in and shake your life up for the better. You don’t need that, because those some ones and some days and some experiences, guess what? They leave, they disappoint or they fade and you are still there riding the waves, deciding whether you stay afloat or you drown all on your own.
If you don’t do any other self work for the rest of forever, consider doing this one thing. When it hits the fan, which it will, stop asking questions like why does this always happen to me and please please please, for the love of all things good, stop, blaming the Universe or the Divine or God or whatever name you call that which is greater for trying to get you. If you never do anything else, but you make this one shift, everything will change.
Now, this does not, I repeat, DOES NOT mean life will suddenly be all mountaintops, roses, and storm free. But it does mean that when you are lost in the valley and skies look endlessly gray and the flood waters are rising you will remain in control. You see, the minute we ask why this is happening to me, we hand over our power, trapping ourselves in the endless loop of victimhood, a tiny pawn in this vast and cruel game of life.
It is not happening to you, it is just happening, and often, if we are willing to really dig deep and get dirty, it is happening for us. Making the conscious shift from victim of life’s circumstances to empowered participant in control of your own reactions to the fluctuations of life is the biggest gift you can give yourself in the next two months of 2018 and in to 2019 and for the rest of your days on this planet.
Stop waiting and start doing, YOU are the plot twist you need.
Finding Om in the OMG 