The Theater of Life Part 2

Life is beautiful. Everyday is a gift. Although it’s often hard to remember this, especially on a day like I’ve had today. Pretty funny, in my opinion, how there are levels of problem that people respond differently to. Here’s a graph I drew to explain myself.

My hand-drawn graph

Okay now for the explanation. As you can see, number 1 on the graph shows a great day, 5 a mildly bad day, 10 the worst day possible. Mystified? So is my girlfriend, but bear with me here, it’ll all make sense in a bit. Cast your eyes upon the smiley faces and the angry face. They indicate the reaction one has at the end of the day, thinking back on the way it all turned out. Now to go deeper.
(I’m loving this!) A great day is when the world and everyone in it makes everything easy and amazing for you. A mildly bad day is one in which that old bat took ages to steal your parking, while blocking you and seventeen other motorists from moving on, your mom was in a bad mood and kept bugging you and the cat’s vomited on the couch. The worst day possible is when you’ve been in a car wreck, been mugged, or something similar.
Now, for my explanation to work from this point on, think back to days you’ve had that you can relate to each of these situations. Take a few minutes to secure the memories in your mind.
Got em? Good. Now think about how you felt about these situations when the day was over, or when all was resolved. If it was day number 1, you probably felt joyful or thankful that everything went so well. If you had a day number 10, you were probably thankful that you’d gotten through it and that it hadn’t been worse. However if your day had been anywhere in between those two extremes, you were just plain irritated about the things that went wrong.
At the risk of sounding like some wheezing old scientist, I can now conclude that extremes result in contentment, while the grey areas result in annoyance. Pretty cool huh?
Now for the really cool part. There is nothing you can do about the rubbish things in life happening. What you can control though, is the way you think and feel about the days in your life. In stead of focusing on the rubbish bits, look for all the beautiful, good and happy things in your day! I know I sound like the hippies I mentioned in an earlier post (there is nothing wrong with being a hippie), but it’s true.
If you don’t believe me, check out The Secret for a whole siteload of people who this approach

Rev. Michael Beckwith

works for! It’s as easy as a choice. I do it, my gorgeous girlfriend does it, and we are both watching our lives transform every day!
So in closing, I’d like leave you with the following truth:

“You end up attracting to you the predominant thoughts that you are holding in your awareness. Whether those thoughts are conscious or they’re unconscious.”
-Rev. Michael Beckwith