For years I used the tools I had learned to cope with life's challenges and difficulties; these were:
- to complain, feel like a victim of circumstances, blame others for my "misery"
By practicing their application in my everyday life, my mood, relationships and outlook on life itself changed to a much happier and healthier one.
The first secret, Life is a School, has helped me perceive life's events as lessons. The lessons are really more about myself, who I am, what am I thinking and feeling, what is a person or event appearing in my experience actually revealing to me about ME.
Now, whenever a challenge arises, I refrain from complaining or judging it as "bad", and I ask myself:
- What can I learn from this?
- What is this situation mirroring back to me about myself?
- How did I participate in creating this?
As a result of this continued practice, I now complain less, appreciate much more and my life has taken on more meaning and purpose. I now know myself much better and make wiser choices.