Remaining Calm During the Storm

Remaining Calm During the Storm

There are times when everything runs according to plan. The
kids make good grades, the bills are paid on time and your
family is healthy and happy.

Anyone can choose peace when everything is going according
to plan.

Choosing peace when all hell is breaking loose around you is
where you learn who you really are. When the trials and
tribulations of life break down your front door, choose to
remain calm.

"But, Mark, how can I be peaceful when my family member is
ill, or my company is having layoffs and I don't know what's
going to happen tomorrow?"

In situations like these you always make a choice, whether
you realize it or not. You either choose to worry about
situations you have no control over. Or you choose peace and
hand over those situations to your Higher Power. Either way,
the outcome of the situations is not up to you. But how you
deal with it is.

Action Step:

I'd like to offer an exercise to complete in the week ahead:

I want you to recall past negative and traumatic situations
you have experienced. Maybe you were refused a loan from the
bank, audited by the IRS, or a family member had a health
problem.

In a journal or notebook, write down each situation, leaving
10 or so lines between each one.

Now, for each situation ask yourself these questions:

1. Is this a situation I had any control over?

2. Did I worry about this situation?

3. Did my worrying change the outcome of the situation for
the better?

4. Did my worrying give me control over the outcome of the
situation?

5. Would the outcome of the situation have happened whether
I worried or not?

(Sometimes you need to see things in writing to accept
them.)

No matter how you have dwelt on things in the past, the
outcome of situations was not determined by your worrying.

Now, think about what would have happened if you chose inner
peace. Chances are the situations would not have been
affected. But you would have felt -- emotionally,
spiritually, mentally and physically -- more at ease, making
it easier to deal with the situation, no matter what the
outcome.

When you have a choice -- and you always do -- choose to
feel peace within yourself.

You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as
great as your dominant aspiration.

- Mark Victor Hansen

Dear Cheer
Thanks a pie for that msg and i felt it actually meant for me only. This reading has given courage to take up challenges instead sulking about them.
luv
bhugan

Hi,
3 Cheers for posting such a lovely mssg....thanks a ton for sharing! Keep it coming!

Dear cheer,
The forward is amazingly helpful and true. do keep sending more interesting things. i loved this one very much.
Regards
Meenu