Imagine if you will that you are Sisyphus... rolling the same rock up the mountain, doomed to forever see it rolling back down the mountain again. Our challenges in this world are similar. We are doomed to push that same rock over and over and over, unless of course, we decide to take a different course of action.
Unlike Sisyphus, we can choose to look at our problems from a very different perspective if only we would try to see them from another angle.
Our problems, or challenges, if you will think of them, can be like the stones beneath our feet. We can kick them, walk over them, or avoid them altogether. Either way, they don't have very much effect on us.
Sometimes those stones will work their way into our shoes. We can ignore them. We can wriggle our foot around until it gets into a comfortable place, and keep on walking,
aware, but not bothered by the intrusion in our shoes. Or, you can stop walking. Find a place to sit down and untie your shoe, dump the stone out and put your shoe back on.
Pretty easy.
On the other hand, we can make this same problem a major issue by literally taking it in,
mulling it over in our heads over and over and over. Our thoughts become consumed with dealing with this issue, we analyze and criticize and carry on conversations non-stop all the while nothing is being solved. The rock is rolled up the mountain and falls back down again and again.
Pretty soon this same old challenge turns into a nasty little stone in our kidney or bladder, so engulfed are we with this problem. The pain from this angry intrusion becomes unbearable; we are doubled over from it. After much stress and strain and angst and effort, this little stone will pass out of our body. But keep up your current thinking pattern and it's bound to return and cause you grief again.
How do you look at your problems/challenges$%: Are they the stones you skip over as you're walking down the street, do they get into your shoe and make you pause or do they get into your body and wreak havoc with your system$%:
You have the ability to look at them in any fashion that you choose. What will you decide to perceive them, how will you deal with them$%: And when the same issue keeps coming back, when will you decide that enough is enough...this time you're going to take another approach...to see the same challenge in a very different way. It's up to you!
I hope and pray that you can try another method. A wise person once said that "insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome." And yet we do. Do it again and again, until we get it right!