INNER SHIFT INSIGHT no.18

By Karen Laskey and Alex Ivanova

“When fate hands you a lemon, make lemon­ade” .…..Dale Carnegie

Every­one of us has chal­lenges in life. To some of them, we react destruc­tively. We can how­ever, find an eas­ier way to expe­ri­ence life by accept­ing every­thing that comes to us, whether we con­sider it to be good or bad in the moment.

It’s often hard to appre­ci­ate the impor­tance of a sit­u­a­tion in the moment, it’s always seen dif­fer­ent after time passes. But we don’t have for wait for time to pass. We can ini­ti­ate the appre­ci­a­tion by real­iz­ing that any chal­lenge, per­son or prob­lem com­ing into our life is set with resources, forces and spe­cial meaning.

We can choose to accept it. Not as good or bad, but sim­ply as what is.

Shift of the month:
Iden­tify a cur­rent chal­lenge in your life, whether it is a per­son or a sit­u­a­tion. Stop think­ing of it as bad and accept that it is what it is.  From this place of accep­tance, you will broaden your out­look and dis­cover the pos­si­bil­i­ties and spe­cial mean­ing. You now have the option to “make lemon­ade from the lemon”.