What ’ s your ‘ real ’ issue?

It’s very easy to assume that the circumstance or problem I’m viewing today is the ‘real’ issue. I don’t know about you though, but I’ve noticed over time that similar issues keep cropping up in relationships, career or work, family, friendships or even in health, wealth and happiness. One day it dawned on me that the problem I thought I had, the one that was flavour of the month right now, was similar to things I’d experienced previously and I realised that there was something more fundamental going on. And at the point of recognition that there was more to my life than meets the eye my life started to change. Not always positively (or so it would seem at the time), but always towards growing more, understanding myself more and seeing how I fit into the bigger picture that is the world I live in. Life, it seems, has it’s own way of forcing us to face up to the real, underlying issues, by presenting us with superficial problems; but this perfect process only works if we are willing to recognise what’s going on. How we think plays a huge part in our experience of the world, and mostly my thinking was ‘off’. I was caught up the belief that things, events and circumstances were conspiring against me to keep me from realising my potential or my dreams. What I’ve learned in the intervening years is that those things, events and circumstances provided the biggest lessons and opportunities – but I was only...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Life chaos habit Happiness thought Source Type: news