BE INVINCIBLE

-THIS IS ONE OF THE STEP BY STEP TO HAPPINESS, ENJOY THE PROCESS-

'It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse' Buddha.

The other day I was speaking to a patient of mine. He is on his 40s and he was telling me how many times he had been admitted to hospital due to his poor health conditions. He said he regretted the fact that when he was young he did not appreciate his life enough. Now, being in hospital he understood how beautiful life was at that time.

He literally said ‘Health is Wealth’. I thanked him to share that with me and I told him not to be too hard on himself for that, he already had enough to deal with.

It is true though that we do not realize how lucky we are to be healthy and alive until we are not.

It is in our nature.

You see that happening all the time. People finding themselves sick and appreciating life, people losing someone very close and realizing the difference that person was making in their life, people beginning to pray to God only when they are in the worst period of their lives.

Now, I think anybody experienced that feeling somehow, in first person or not.

BUDDHA LESSON

Buddha considered: birth, old age, sickness, and death the main 4 big sufferances. His research on ‘truth’ begun, according to his story, when he experienced to see an old sick man and a dead man. He soon started to look for a way to solve this sufferance but he simply realized that those are unavoidable sufferance.

Now, we do not need Buddha, unfortunately, to understand that this world is surrounded by this kind of sufferance, we are all going to meet someone that will die at an old age or will get sick sooner or later in our life.

It is unavoidable.

Regardless of the fact we are all aware of this, we keep ignoring it.

Not only ignoring it;

We give our life for granted, we think we have all the time of this world to do what we like, we wait to be happy, we wait for the right occasion.

It is not like that, we are on a very frail spot, nobody is immune to that, or sickness or getting old and those ones that believe that are the ones that will be surprised by life and, probably will never be happy in their lives.

WE ARE UNBELIEVABLY BLIND

I began to study this way of living, which is a bit ‘naïve’. How could we be so naïve? No, really, I am impressed by this kind of behavior when people simply ignore that life is really fragile and it could change this exact second.

We still pretend not to see it and we act like nothing is real.

We miss the fact that, in reality, this life is a blessing and every single moment we breath in and out is a moment to celebrate.

Anytime we experience a moment of joy is pure life, any moment of pain is pure life as well.

Celebrating life should be part of our daily routine, being grateful this exact moment for whatever you are experiencing or feeling makes you different from most of the people around you.

WHY?

Because once you can find happiness in a small (but so essential) part of life like breathing, eating your favorite food, the smile of your loved ones, you will be invincible.

There is no sufferance you cannot overcome. The life you have is so full of good that you can touch and appreciate it right here right now.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Appreciating the present is the key to a good life. The present moment is the only time you can really control with your choices, the present moment is your opportunity to be grateful to live, the present moment is your chance to change anything and revolutionize what you can do right here right now.

Once this mechanism starts to be part of your daily routine, then, at the end of the day the chance to have any remorse, to regret anything is going to be lower.

When you live without regrets, knowing that you have been giving your best to work on your life, the life you love, the life you are taking care of then, there is no sufferance you cannot overcome.

Think about it, once you have done everything in your power to make the best out of your life, even if death comes, you won’t be defeated, there is no defeat for the ones that have fulfilled their lives with appreciation and gratefulness.

If you gave your best, when there is no more to give, when you are at peace with your actions, be happy, you are living fully. You don’t need anything else.

THE OBSTACLES

The challenge here lies in the fact that we lose touch with the reality, we are so immersed in the tricks our mind plays, in the cultural standards, in the opinion of somebody else, that when it comes to work towards your own fulfillment, you are too lost.

HOW DO YOU RECONNECT WITH YOURSELF?

It takes work, time, patience and it is not about getting all the results in the end of the process, as I said life might change for you at this exact moment, so start now giving the best you can to be fine with yourself.

With that attitude, you will be invincible. Live like there is no more time left. Live like ‘now and only now I can make the difference’.

Live like life is the most beautiful gift you have ever received.

Live life like ‘I can't stop smiling because life is so beautiful’.

Please carry on writing your own life… make it yours, make it for your life and let’s change the world together.

- THIS IS ONE OF THE STEP BY STEP TO HAPPINESS, ENJOY THE PROCESS -