MAKING PEACE WITH THE DAY

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“Making Peace with My Today Will Improve My Future… It may sound odd, but the fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation. By making lists of the most positive aspects you can find about your current situation, you then release your resistance to the improvements that are waiting for you. But if you rail against the injustices of your current situation, you hold yourself in Vibrational alignment with what you do not want, and you cannot then move in the direction of improvement. It defies Law. In every particle of the Universe, there is that which is wanted – and the lack of it.” ~ Esther Hicks 

Excerpted from the book The Vortex — Where The Law Of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships  ~ Esther Hicks (Abraham and Jerry)

The process of making peace with my today has taken many twists and turns over the years that I’ve spent chasing down a better feeling life. When I was young, and I think this is a common experience when young, we look for our happiness outside of ourselves. We search for someone to love, a career we enjoy, friends with whom we can share our journey, homes we can pour ourselves into and enough material possessions for comfort and enjoyment. We have children for the love we believe they will bring to us and us to them. In fact, when we were young didn’t we dream about a future that held everything we hoped for?

A WAKE UP CALL

When our fifth or sixth decade come knocking on our door we begin to see things differently. Some of us, and I was one of them, wake up to the reality that happiness is an inside job. That’s not to say that the things we chase on the outside aren’t of value to us, they often are, even if only to show us through contrasting experiences what we prefer.

Little by little, year by year, decade by decade, the value of externals achievements and goals begin to fall away and our desire to be happy just as we are comes to the forefront. It becomes clearer to us that making peace with my today is of utmost importance. I’ve learned many lessons about what I like and do not like. I have seen the futility in trying to change others and understand that real change begins with me.

This is not a superficial or trite endeavor. Making peace with my today means taking a hard look at myself and owning up to areas in which I am still waiting for my ship to come in. It’s recognizing that while life presents constant challenges, discomforts, and disappointments, I can still find peace. It may come to me as I listen to quiet music as I lie in bed recovering from surgery, focusing my attention on the positive energy of the sounds more often than the pain and discomfort present in my body. Finding peace in the midst of life has much more to do with our thoughts, beliefs and attitude than it does with our present moment circumstances. We fight with this reality, but it doesn’t make it any less true.

CREATE REMINDERS

And so, making peace with my today often begins with reminders like the quote above. Make a list of the positive aspects in your life. Right now. This is a simple yet powerful way to slip into a more positive outlook. I like this approach, not only because making a list always makes me feel better but, because it’s bigger in my mind than gratitude. It avoids the slippery slope into guilt and obligation that gratitude can sometimes call forth. “Aspects” are richer, broader, and reach further into the corners where we hide. It calls us into the whole body dimensions of our lives rather than our rational minds.

So today, my list includes the positive energy I feel when sitting in my dining room turned sunroom and the full bodied pleasure of the space I created during the pandemic and the early years of my husband’s illness. It’s a space we’ve both come to cherish and enjoy and enriches our lives on the subtlest levels. As the sun beams through the windows and I watch two bluebirds investigate the bluebird box just beyond the deck and the bird feeders I feel a peace that is real and palatable. It goes above and beyond many of the so-called realities I live with day to day.

MOMENTS OF PEACE

This moment of peace, I have learned, will shine a light on the hours and days to come. I’ve also learned that these moments accumulate when I look for them. And collectively, over time, they raise me up again and again, imbuing life, past and present, with an awareness that I am living in vibrational alignment with what I want. Making peace with my today, will improve my future.

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If you are interested in reading or listening to books by Esther & Jerry Hicks, I would recommend the one referenced in this article. The downloadable audio version contains several guided meditations that I have listened to repeatedly since I purchased it quite a few years ago. The book itself covers her message in depth and is also worth repeated listening.

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