Leap into Love Part 1 of 2

Are you coping with life (stress, hurry, and worry) or living the life you are equipped to have (joy, calm, and love)?  You can have a life of optimal health and emotional fulfillment.  The skills necessary to live optimally are obtainable through conscious choice. 

We can choose to accept what we can’t change (others), change what we can (self), and love in the present moment, so that life continually grows sweeter and more valuable to us. 

When you focus on lack, you are in fear and will gather more fear.  When you instead choose to focus on love the present moment most often will be peaceful for self and others. 

At the moment we make decisions we often lock ourselves and others into fear of a past mistake or a future of scarcity.  Warfare begins due to this fear of lack, so does welfare.  Becoming aware of our own consciousness we are better equipped to make better choices, especially since we humans want and crave acceptance. 

We yearn to be accepted by others and to have the blessings of life.  An infant is proof of that.  Mimicking those around, the infant feels acceptance and continues to learn and grow.  We witness the toddler’s determination to gather more abilities and skills to be just like the adults.  We often swell with pride as the “little one” learns to fill a need, partly because the toddler’s dependence on us becomes less demanding of our precious crowded time.  

Soon, we may discover we miss that need of attention (lack of time together) from us and we often create situations that place us together (control of time).  Sometimes the adult’s control of youth brings additional opportunity for continued physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual growth.  Unfortunately, there are times when adults instead place children in situations that hinder their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual growth. With observation we can quickly determine whether the missing need that we tried to fill was beneficial (filling their need) or detrimental (filling our need to control).  We can do this with all decisions. 

Now, knowing that you can consciously decide to love or fear (feel lack) in the present moment, would you have lived your life differently?  Hoping for a different life is not enough to make it so.  However, you can now choose to make more decisions based in love rather than fear of lack.  Stop your mind from focusing on a past failure (self or others) and instead choose a fond loving moment, then create another moment in love.  Next, we will look at a strategy, my mother taught me at a young age, which still helps me get my thinking straight still today.  Let’s take the leap!