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How we look at things is very important !
March 2009
By Alexandra Andrews
Well if you have been listening to the news and TV for the past few months, you might be feeling a little battered and drained of energy.
While I can see the appeal of wanting to know what is happening around the world and locally, I can’t seem to get past the fact that people are feeling heavy and very drained by all the news.
They are always offered a diet of negativity when stories are reported. The positive ones being few and far between. What is really going on with life and our ability to function in a positive environment? Can we sustain our own energy and thus our own creativity and therefore our ability to help when its needed in an effective way? I think that the "Global Financial Crisis" and the devastating fires in Australia have been matched and uplifted with such tremendous reverence from the local communities, wider Australian communities and the Global communities.
When disaster happens in any form to anyone it shocks us into waking up and getting stuck into the absolute core of what needs to be done. We shortcut all, ‘should we do this’, ‘should we do that’, ‘budget this’, allowance for that, into … direct action.
Governments and communities are rallying together to support people in building and maintaining their lives. Whether we agree with the way it is being done or not.
The amount of money raised in this challenging economic time has been amazing.
Are we adjusting our expectation of what we are and who we are and what is truly to the core of us and what we find important?
Is empathy coming out in full force?
Each day I look at what I love and enjoy the most and, for most part, money can’t buy them.
The core of belief is being challenged and questioned. What do we REALLY believe in? Who are we REALLY without ‘Things’?
Celebrate in the resilience and the helping hands that we have found.
When I hear of people who have shifted and had to change their way of living and do it in a positive way I feel so joyful for them.
If loss and therefore stress knock’s at your door, how will you greet it?
Stressing about it is not going to solve or relieve your pressures so let it go. Let go of the fear. Take stock of you and your emotions. Sit quietly and reflect on how you are feeling and what you are feeling and whether they are feelings of joy or sadness. They are sometimes linked to our ego or our wanting to please others.
Once we really find clarity within us we find clarity in our resolve to fix and find an outcome.
I bumped into a friend a few weeks ago who I had not seen for a while. When I had previously seen them they looked very stressed and worried, red eye’s and the look of panic and shock in the face. On this particular occasion they looked very much relaxed and at peace. Their faces were calm and not tortured. I asked them how they were and, with such a wonderful calm expression, they told me how they were selling their house and down sizing so they didn’t have such a pressure placed on them. Imagine the torment that they must have been feeling in the process up to ‘letting go’? But once the decision and clarity came about what they needed to do to find relief, they were relieved.
Sometimes Relief is what we are after, after we let go of what other’s expect of us and what we expect of ourselves.
