Pack Your Bags

“The great Truth is that things may happen around you and things may happen to you but the only thing that really counts are the things that happen in you.” Eric Butterworth, Spiritual Economics

What?? Is he sure about this? Yes…positively! No matter in what situation you find yourself, the thing that counts the most is how you decide to bring yourself into that moment.

You can bring all of the baggage from your past…the baggage of anger, resentment, guilt, poor me and why me. You can bring your baggage wrapped as beliefs that create misery…the belief that the world owes me, I’m not good enough, there will never be enough, it’s not fair and nobody cares. You can bring the baggage of judgement…everything about ‘they’ and ‘them’ that you just can’t tolerate. There is the baggage of words you choose to use when talking about others and yourself…are the words encouraging, uplifting, positive? You bring all of this with you into the moment.

All of this is happening IN you. There is nothing I’ve listed above that is happening outside of you. Are you satisfied with the baggage you are carrying? Is it working for you? Or would you like to pack a different bag?

Packing a different bag is about making a choice. Since it is all happening IN you…you have the power to decide whatever IT is. I can choose to leave the past in the past. That doesn’t mean that everything that happened was okay…it means that I am leaving it in the past…DONE! I can choose to believe something different…why not start believing that the world is full of possibilities or that I deserve to be happy? It doesn’t cost anything to give it a go. I can choose to stop all the judgement about they and them and him and her…what if I decide that they really are doing the best they can and leave it at that? I can choose my words carefully…I can use them to make a positive difference in the world.

The bag that you pack will determine your experience of life. If you pack the second bag I described above, it doesn’t mean your life will be without challenges…it does mean that you will have the bag you need to have the best possible experience no matter what the situation, event or circumstance. That is how important ‘the things that happen in you’ really are.

Peace

Paula