You are actively engaged in one, so which is it? Thriving is growing and progressing and is our nature. Surviving is to remain alive or in existence and is a state that is not natural to us. Growth and expansion are natural to us, and concepts we must engage in. In reality, if we are not growing and expanding, we are dying. Don't do that!!
Look around you! You know people that are dying. People that are in relationships that they don't want to be in, or in Jobs that they hate, or listening to a sermon that they do not agree with. People complaining about this or that. And they stay in those situations because they believe they have no alternative. They actually believe that!! I actually had a woman tell me she was staying in her marriage because if she got a divorce that would be her second divorce and she didn't want that label. That's insane.
Why do you think so many people are medicated today? Do you know that more people die everyday from overdoses or mixture of prescribed medicine than illegal drugs? That's messed up. The human body is a pretty ridiculous organism when you think about it. It regenerates itself over and over, yet when we have an ailment, our mind set is to take pills or drugs. We look outside of us for a remedy when we have everything we need within us.
Take the woman that does not want to have the "Label" of being divorced twice. That simple thought confines her to a life she is not fulfilled in, a life that she is just surviving or spending time in. A life that while she bides her time in, eliminates the potential for a life she could be thriving in and a relationship that could be part of that thriving. She could have a different thought. She could not care what others might say or think about her two failed marriages, and a whole new myriad of potentials could present themselves.
Staying in a job you hate because you make a good income? That just eliminates all of the potential things you could be doing if you were not spending time in a job you hate. And by the way, when you do a job you don't like, you are not doing your best work. Who knows what you would accomplish if you were thriving by growing and enjoying your days rather than biding your time for a paycheck. Great things do not come from survival. Great things come from thriving. Ideas that have never been thought come from a thriving mindset.
So, how do you move out of a survival mindset to a thriving mindset. Question everything you are doing, and I mean everything. Why do you sit in front of the TV as much as you do? Why when you feel less than comfortable do you begin cleaning, or go shopping, or jump on the Internet or alter how you feel with any other substance or activity? Because your not growing, you have become stagnant which is not a natural state for us, so you numb those feelings. The problem is you can't just numb bad feelings, you numb all feelings and we are feeling beings, no pun intended.
Ask yourself the question; What do I want? Do you want to survive or do you want to Thrive? Thriving stretches you, it will scare you, it will provide you the opportunity to feel every aspect of the human experience. Embrace that, Immerse yourself in the never ending cycle of separation, initiation and return. If you don't know what that is, find out.....that's growing!
Maybe your life is not where you want it, maybe your in a crappy relationship, maybe your job doesn't stimulate you, maybe you are tired of the sermon you're being taught. What are you going to do about it? Crap happens, but make no mistake, you participated in it happening. After all, there you are!! What are you going to do about it? What thoughts are you going to change about it to create a life of thriving? Change your thinking about life and you change your Life, and that is miraculous!!!
Maybe you are more fulfilled than you ever imagined. Awesome, keep it going but know that at some point in time that could change. And when it does, just keep in mind (literally) you are the only one to determine what that means. The only meaning life has is the one you give it. Give it an empowering one!! Please, we need more of those. Its the difference between Thriving and Dying!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment