It makes sense that when we’re feeling happy and peaceful, we want to hold on to happiness or peaceful state forever. But why are we so reluctant to let go of unhappy emotions?
Letting go doesn’t mean suppressing emotions; that’s like putting an adhesive bandage on a serious wound. Sure, you can’t see it when you cover it up, but it’s still festering underneath of bandage. And it just keeps getting worse.
The same is true for emotional wounds. It’s important to air negative feeling and mistakes-then
let them go so that you can heal.
Anger is a defense mechanism in response to a perceived danger or threat. When you are angry, try to see what’s frightening you. If someone is angry with you, try to figure out what might be frightening that person. The best thing you can do is to show compassion.
People often say, “Things happen for a reason.” When something upsetting happens, think about why it happened at this particular time in your life.What have you learned or gained from this experience?
Tell You Story
This story, as I promised before will be about “My Garden Vase”
Actually, I want you to know that this story is about how many of us
grow in time by adding years and years of life experiences such as education, building careers, learning how to deal with partners and spouses, racing our children, dealing with parents, relatives, and friends… and ourselves.
Then comes the time, as I mentioned in my other story when many of us get down on ourselves for having wrinkles on our faces, or not having a “perfect” body.
In common language, this stage is called “middle age crisis.”
As I told you before,
I decided to help people in those crisis by creating a project in Costa Rica. It was called “Not Just Another Hotel”
What that has to do with my Garden Vase story?
Well, I’ll tell you.
My business concept was based on the idea of helping people to see their own beauty coming from within. I’d have professionals come and help people to discover their talents. I am a strong believer that everyone has a talent.
Then we would have many different classes/workshops which would teach these individuals the skills to start up developing whatever they were passionate about. Eventually they would evolve all over again, and as I called it, they would have a “Second Life.”
It was big, and very expensive project. One of the things that happened for me that I hold very dearly to my hard, which convinced
me that it was possible, was my broken garden vase.
I loved this beautiful clear glass large vase.
I had purchased it while I live in Toronto. I owned this vase for several years. I planted different flowers inside of it, and it was sitting in my sun room all year round.
Of course, it had to be shipped to Costa Rica amongst all of my other stuff in the large container.
When I finished my Japanese rock garden, I decided to put my glass vase in there. I planted several loveliest flowers in this vase, and it seemed like it completed my garden perfectly.
Couple of weeks went by, one day I come out in the morning, and saw that my Garden Vase had a crack.
Well, my partner Jack said: ” I told you, this wasn’t good idea to take your glass vase to the garden, but you wouldn’t listen. Now you have to throw it to the garbage.”
This was that moment when I thought, “No, I am not going to throw it just because it not perfect anymore. But I am not going to keep it like that either.
This vase is going to have a “Second Life.” I had an idea what I was going to do with it.
However, I didn’t attend to it right away, and after couple of days, I saw that large chunk of glass fell off of it.
Jack said, “Well! Now you have to get rid of it immediately! And watch out, it’s dangerous now, you can cut your fingers, you don’t need it now.”
“That’s it!” I said, “It’s actually perfect for what I want to do with it.”
And I got busy. It took me two weeks. When I finished Jack couldn’t believe what he saw.
I had made a brand new vase, glass combined with paper mache.
The paper mache part, which was one quarter of it, was bright yellow inside, and beautiful purple in the outside with lovely yellow and green pattern.
It was sitting in our living room, looking so very proud of itself that I couldn’t believe my own eyes.
It was breath taking transformation!
Now I had a visual prove how our lives could be transformed. All we need is to be willing to grow out of one stage of our lives to another, and recognize the importance and beauty of our experiences - good, bad and different.
Love you life! It’s PERFECT if you are willing to GROW.
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Go to: www.TotalWellnessMatters.com
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