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Fix Your Problems

 

Monday, February 19, 2024,

A key to building happiness isn't the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them, and resolve them. 

A powerful, and simple line that I read recently is today's title, "Fix Your Problems".  It got me thinking about the attractive and addictive nature of complaining about a problem, but not really doing anything to fix it (everyone, myself included, complains about problems at some point or another with no effort put forth into actually resolving the problem). 

Altogether, our modern world, with its interconnectivity/social-media, now allows complainers to get together and ruminate and stew and do nothing other than.........complain.  Complain about the politics of the day, the amount of money they make, their living conditions, the cost of things, the weather, it's too hot, now it's too cold, now it's too mild, now it's too windy......  If one can A:) Pull oneself out of this din of noise and confusion and B:) find a time of silence and peace in one's day, one can view things with more clarity (view all things, including your problems, with more clarity). 

If one were to write down their problems, in a bullet-point fashion, you might be surprised by how easily your problems summarize.  In the peace that silence and reflection can bring, one can actually view one's problems clearly and easily, and have no issue coming up with ways to fix and resolve them (unless you don't really want to fix your problems, and are addicted to complaining which is highly possible in our modern world). 

Enough chit chat, it's 5:42am, and it's time to begin...

Part II:

It's 7:58am as I type this and I am way behind schedule but, for the first time in months, I went through my full backbend sequence at the end of practice.  Backbending keeps you young, changes things up (physically and mentally), and alters your perspective for the better (don't know what chemically happens in the brain to make these changes, but backbending releasing something positive in the body). 

Time to enter the world. 

Namaste

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