Don’t just accept it, LOVE it
One idea that’s working out well for me right now is ‘Don’t just accept it, LOVE it’. This does not apply to my life, my personality or any such Oprah Winfriesque ideal. It applies to all those things that I usually consider annoyances or frustrations, like traffic jams, litter on the streets, noise pollution, atmospheric pollution, bad hair days etc. Yesterday, whilst travelling on a bus in heavy heat, the feeling of restlessness began weighing in on me. At that point I thought, ‘What if I ENJOYED being uncomfortable?’ The attitude created a shift in my awareness which in turn changed my experience. Attitude can influence experience quite directly sometimes, and that’s exactly what happened.
So next time I start thinking, ‘How awful it is that…’, I’m going to turn it around into, ‘I love how awful it is.’
