Seize the life you're meant to live

In order to take steps to live the life you're meant to live, its meaningful to realize all you need is within reach already.  This perspective may throw part of your mind spinning. 

After all, human beings are often taught that motivation is grounded in something you don't have but would like to have or experience.  If you have what you need, then what happens to motivation?  Would it lose something significant or, gain something else?

How you are motivated begins with your beliefs.  When you are conditioned to believe you lack what you need, you motivate yourself to satisfy such needs.  When you associate happiness with a certain image imposed from outside yourself, then you teach yourself seek what you think you don't have.  Its all about the thoughts you nurture.

Some people discover the life they feel meant to lead based on a process of elimination.  They gradually eliminate those thoughts, behaviours that don't enable them to feel good.  If you don't know yet what this means,  at least you can say what it isn't.  That's a step in the right direction.  You need to believe you're in the right place for you at this moment.

To seize the life you're meant to live, you don't have to go somewhere you're not.  It makes sense to build confidence wherever you are.  Have you learned what it means to be constantly mindful? To be conscious implies you connect to everything.  Thoughts and dreams are interconnected.  They assist you to see behind your values and principles. 

Comments

[Shilpan|successsoul.com]

Liara -

This succinctly narrates how to think. It's amazing that we have all we need within us yet we constantly strive to find external sources of happiness. I've written a post yesterday that talks about the inner and outer realities. We often allow our inner reality be conditioned by the outer reality. I'd love to get your comment on it.

http://www.successsoul.com/2008/06/16/how-to-cultivate-mental-clarity-and-happiness/

Thanks
Shilpan

[Liara Covert]

Shilpan, lots of people have not yet learned to distinguish the origins of their beliefs. When it comes to happiness, human beings can be impressionable and susceptible to images they perceive outside themselves. If you internalize what you see, you can begin to convince yourself that your sense of happiness comes from your ideas when in reality, this isn't the case. As you peel the layers away, you get back to the authentic you.

[Alexys Fairfield]

Liara,
I am often amazed at how people think they want something that they do not want or need. They feel they should have whatever it is because the clock is ticking and their time doesn't coincide with universal or karmic time.

By being mindful of the steps they take, they will eventually go in the right direction and not fall into the trap of the haves and have-nots.

[Tomas]

While all you write seems so true, I am hard to apply that truth to myself in the concrete. Though I am not going somewhere where I am not, but I lack what I need. At a moment I lack camera for to be where I am-I need camera for to portray what you wrote in your post.

At a moment, my acceptance of the reality I face would mean just one - the acceptance of the being the dependent disabled or the living for to eat and wait for the death. Sorry for such conclusion.

I see being constantly mindful as recognition of myself in other and sharing these spiritual discoveries with all around.

Healthy people had more opportunities to live their dreams. As being the disabled myself I depend in some sense on the tools I have. And that becomes symbolical - my need of professional digital camera depicts my inability to live just for self and thus portray the truth, It is just impossible to experience the happiness here and now (or somewhere else) without recognition of oneself as a part of much bigger whole.

So I am to choose either sit ar the window and mourn in my consciousness, or to beg for the camera for to become alive by sharing the wonders of art therapy
Can I ask you for the help?

[Liara Covert]

Alexys, learning the difference between need and desire comes with life experience. A person needs to will to learn and the the open-mindedness to raise awareness. Choose to evolve to discern and rediscover what matters and why.

[Liara Covert]

Tomas, human beings often learn very meaningful lessons from situations that appear undesirable on the surface. Each person redefines success and happiness based on their state of health and mind. It is desirable to evolve to where you don't compare or judge yourself based on what you aren't doing or based on what other people can do and you apparently can't. You clearly have a life filled with many blessings, and fewer distractions than individuals in different life situations. As you learn to focus on all the good in your life, you can transform your mind to feel grateful for all that you are and all that you have. Other people are always worse off somewhere. Your life is full of hope and promise.