If You Feel Like You’re Ready To Give Up, You Have To Make A Change.

When you have hit rock bottom. Your last solid ground you get before you fall into the darkest of pits.

I’ve heard stories about person hitting rock bottom, I can relate to that story. But few talk about that point in time where they haven’t quite yet dropped to the cliff side and are desperately clinging to the edge.

Rock bottom isn’t a place you accidentally find yourself in. To be honest, I cant really believe that people say that they woke up one day and hated their lives, hated the people they’ve become , and wanted nothing more to throw in the towel and call it quits on everything. We all have clues that something happening, we just ignore them. Hoping they will just go away. I know that’s what I did.

Hitting rock bottom follows a similar pattern every time. It all starts with something awful happening. It may have been we made a mistake or did something stupid. Whatever the reason, something happened that shifted our way of thought into a darker spectrum.

In my case it was my childhood. My mother had broken everything in me. My heart, my spirit, even my chance to care about anyone. When I moved out of my parents house. I was an addict, feeling like no one ever will care what I did. This happened to me and hurt me so intensely.

It changed my perception of the world into a negative light, I grew further away from the person I really was hidden inside.

We find some mean, hateful people in this world a part of me thinks they are dying inside. A part that innocent, pure, happy, and beautiful.

A change begins to happen in us. This changes won’t be visible at first. But eventually, the rot from the inside has to come to the outside. With bad thoughts come bad habits, bad tendencies, bad experiences. We start to make bad decisions.

At first, we tell ourselves “we deserve a bit of fun.” We now begin to believe that making bad decisions, drinking, drugs, being sexually active with strangers is fun. One day you’ll feel completely disgusted with yourself. We will made now have to punish ourselves so, we make more bad decisions.

And the cycle goes on and on. The more we punish ourselves the worse we feel, the negative thoughts and energy we have the more worse things get.

It’s important to remember that during these times, were not constantly feeling horrible. We have moments of happiness. Moment’s of content. Maybe even experiences of success. Which confuses us. When we can’t even celebrate the small successes, our brain don’t know how.

We don’t just don’t wake up and find we have hit rock bottom. But we wake up one day and find ourselves on the edge of the cliff.

We wake up and realize that we’ve been living the wrong life. We’ve made a decision at some point or another that led us down the wrong path. This is our life but it shouldn’t be. This isn’t for us, this isn’t who you are. Where did it all go wrong?

We can sulk, feel bad for ourselves and hate ourselves while we ponder the answer to that question. But the truth is, that isn’t where our focus should be. Our focus needs to be getting ourselves and our lives back on the right track.

There is a decision to be made. Are you giving up on yourself and allowing yourself to continue following down this cursed path? Or are you going to admit that you’ve had enough of the person you’ve become? and decide that you’re not going down the wrong path anymore. You only get one life. Your going to make it better.

It took me seeing rock bottom to decide I needed to change, “I was tired of living the horrible I was living.” I was time to change. It’s was easier taking the path in life you were meant to take when you see that bottom. When you can see how the story could end for you at rock bottom.

It’s made me change because I’ve never been so incredibly scared in my life. Once I closed my eyes and watched my life unfold, watching as I spent the rest of my life sloes dying and realize that’s the one way things can go if I don’t change, I chose to change.

Today I am the person I want to be, and releasing all the garbage from my life I feel 20 years younger. And ready to make a difference in this world.

Only Two Paths In Life

There are only two paths in life. The one you take, and the one you don’t take.

If you take a path, you probably get closer to your destination.

If you don’t, you’re still stuck in the same place. Movement and status quo both work. Depending on your life vision.

What doesn’t work- is being in between, sitting on the fence.

Most of life is spent on the crossroads, the path of indecision-thin ability to choose a path and follow it.

Many think the path will choose them. But, in fact you choose the path… Consciously.

Sometimes, many paths in one lifetime. Some paths may show you hill top views and others tsunami-hit villages. Some dark forests with untamed animals. Some bridges with sunsets on the horizon.

But only when you walk the path, will you know the path. And only when you know the path, will you know where it takes you.

Don’t hesitate to choose a path, don’t think too much, just walk. As you walk, you will know that you are guided.

Guided to your destination, guided homework. For every homecoming, and every homecoming is a celebration. A celebration of who you are.

A Celebration of all you could be!

Benefits Of Mindfulness

Being A More Mindful Person

Today was one of those days for me. My entire day was wasted trying to get a tire put on my car. By late this afternoon I had managed to lose my temper, something I rarely do. Why it took them almost 5 hours to put on 1 tire is beyond me. It just put more stress on me, than I needed.

The doctor told me the last time I needed to practice mindfulness again, I had stopped doing this because I thought I had a handle on things.

Practicing mindfulness may be able to help in your journey towards becoming a healthier you. But what it does mean is being more mindful.

Being mindful means to be aware of your thoughts, emotions, and how you’re feeling both physically and mentally. Mindful is a form of meditation with an important aspect to it-acceptance. It means being aware of your thoughts and feelings without judgement. Remember there is no right or wrong way to think or feel in any moment.

Well I completely bombed that one today. My lack of thoughts and feelings with Judgement came through shining in this situation. All I accomplished was to stress myself out, by I’m sure making a scene.

Being more mindful and aware of your thoughts and feelings,you may be able to teach yourself to live in the moment and enjoy life as it happens.

Why mindfulness is good for you.

It may be able to boost the immune system. Research has shown that after eight weeks of practicing , mindful meditation helped the immune system’s ability to fight off illness such as the flu.

It may help reduce stress. Mindfulness may increase positive emotions while reducing negative emotions and stress.

It may help you focus, tune out distractions, and improve your memory and attention skills.

Take a moment right now to think about your own thoughts and feelings and consider starting your mindfulness practice today.

I know I am starting my mindfulness practice again. And make it part of my daily routine.

How To Make Yourself Mentally Strong

In life, there are times when you need to be mentally sharp to make good fast decisions fast.

That means managing your emotions, adjusting your thinking, and choosing to take positive action whatever situation comes your way.

Mental strength doesn’t just happen. It have to be developed.

In my childhood I didn’t have a chance to work on becoming mentally strong, though every situation, I ran away I fled from my life. I received the message, if no-one cared for me, I didn’t cared what happened to me.

As an adult, this view carried on. I wasted almost 45 years away angry, sad, full of hate.

I was hateful toward every one except my children. Then one day I looked in the mirror. I seen a 400 pound thing, I say thing because I felt like a big blob full ofanger, hate, and sadness. The doctors chose to give me pills and more pills to try and fix me, but it only made me a horrible blob. Finally my life had hit rock bottom.

I decided I didn’t want to live like I was anymore. Once I decided this. I began a very strict diet, I lost 200 pounds. My children actually got me to go to church. Things began to change.

Here are some ways I have learned to become mentally strong:

#1. You have to focus on the moment, wherever you are. The challenges that comes along from time to time are a test of how mentally strong you are, and your willingness to stretch and change. The worst thing you can do is to run and ignore or procrastinate in developing solutions. Challenges are here and will always be, and the difficulty is now. Focus your energy on the present moment; don’t lose what is right before you. When you focus on the moment you come to realize where you have the most power to make things right.

#2. Embrace Adversity. Mental strength gives us the ability to see the obstacles in our path as stepping stones. When we become face to face with a struggle, we can be inspired by the knowledge that it’s not the end but a path to deeper knowledge and understanding.

#3. Exercise Your Mind. Just like muscles, your mind needs to be exercised to gain strength. Growth and development take consistent work, if you have not pushed yourself recently, you might not be growing as much as you can. Mental strength is built through lots of small wins, maintained through the choices we make every day. To gain stamina, take on a daily task that strength and mental endurance.

#4. Challenge Yourself. Albert Einstein once said “One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.” Understanding yourself and playing it safe holds you back from success. When you believe in yourself and your abilities in yourself and your abilities, you often can go beyond the imaginable.

#4. Respond Positively. You can not control everything that comes your way. But you are in absolute control of how to react to everything that comes your way. What happens to you is important-but not as important as your response. Incredible progress can happen in your life,and leadership when you take control of your reactions.

#5. Be Mindful. Mindfulness means taking control of your focus and being intentional about what you give your attention to.

#6. Don’t Be Defeated By Fear. To be resilient and mentally strong means knowing Horton deal with fear. When you enter frightening situations with the awareness that it’s an opportunity for you to grow trust outweighs fear.

They say that love overcomes fear. Silence is a source of great strength. Being silent with others are upset gives you peace.

Imagine

I’m going to share with you something that happened to me. I usually don’t share things like this. Because someone might thing I’m crazy. But, this was so intense for me. I had to share.

Last Night I was at a Prayer Worship Summit. At a church I never go to. There was musicians there, I’d never heard.

As the band began to play and the singer began to sing. The room went dark. We were singing Praise the Lord Over and over. I began to see the entire room go from dark to completely white and a bright light brighter than the sun.

Their was a massive amount of people bowing to this intensely bright figure. He has white and light. That’s all I seen.

Then I heard a voice, but it was as if nothing was said I heard it in my soul. God said: I’m rolling up my sleeves for you. I’m sending my strength to you to stop the darkness in the world.

A great peace came over me. I couldn’t remember walking up front. But I remember repeating what had just happened.

When I returned home, I was praying and asking God what am I supposed to do to with the information I had witnessed.

He have me two scriptures:

The people who are living in spiritual darkness have seen a great light, and those who were living in the land and shadow of spiritual and moral death upon a light has dawned. (Matthew 4:16).

God has rolled up his sleeves, all the nation’s can see His Holy Muscled Arm. Every one from one end to the other, will see Him at work doing His salvation. (Isaiah: 52:10-12).