{"id":1851,"date":"2018-04-11T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T21:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elisabethsigrist.com\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2020-04-16T05:57:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T11:57:50","slug":"accepting-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elisabethsigrist.com\/en\/accepting-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepting reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know that feeling when you\u2019re constantly running around and yet there\u2019s always more to do? When even in those rare moments of inactivity you can\u2019t really relax and enjoy &#8211; you don\u2019t really listen, don\u2019t really acknowledge taht person you are with. This seems to be a commonplace feeling in our rushed society. We no longer own our own time!<\/p>\n<p>What keeps us in this fast running train that has seems to have gotten out of control? We don\u2019t even stop to think wether we are heading in the direction we truly want to? Personally I\u2019ve reached that point where I\u2019ve had enough and I\u2019m ready to wake up from this collective nightmare. I feel I want to start living my own dreams instead of those brainwashed into my head by family pressures, social media and advertisement. Do yoou also want to strive for something greater than what you have settld down for?<\/p>\n<p>The big challenge in order to succeed is to believe in yourself and in your ability to make your dreams come true. It doesn\u2019t always come naturally, and for a good reason. How often do you pat yourself on the shoulder and say \u2018well done\u2019? How ofthen do you downplay your achievements as \u2018not a big deal\u2019, \u2018not good enough\u2019, \u2018sheer luck\u2019 or anything down that line. Now I want you to stop for a moment and thing about the things that are positive in your life. Can you think of any or are you too trapped in the above attitude&#8230;? Give yourself credit for all the good things you were able to achieve and maintain in your life.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing in order to have a \u2018good enough\u2019 attitude is to accept that you cannot control everything. Things don\u2019t usually turn out exactly the way you or anyone plans them. And that is the tricky part, letting go of your expectations, accepting things <em>as they are, as they happen<\/em>. A good way of overcoming the resulting feeling of uncertainty is with humour \u2013 just smile when what you\u2019re actually getting is so different from what you had expected! Smile and be surprised at where it gets you to &#8211; if you hang in there long enough it will still get you where you wanted to be, but in a totally different way.<br \/>\nOnce you experience time and time again that there are different ways to get to your goal, you start trusting your intuition \u2013 that little voice inside your head that\u2019s always telling you which way to go and which to avoid. And the more intuitive you become, the less pressure you put on yourself. That\u2019s when life becomes what I like to call \u2018magical\u2019, when you start improvising and making the best of any situation. It\u2019s so much more fun to watch with amazement how things merge together, while actively observing and creating new possibilities, instead of getting frustrated with every alteration of the pre-established plan! When you allow life to surprise you, that\u2019s when you are in touch with yourself and with the present moment. That\u2019s when time and space seem to become flexible and you get to see the big picture \u2013 all the different alternatives simply pop up infront of you and you you feel you are dancingin sync with the world around you. You\u2019ve gone beyond expectations, judgements and attachments, and you get to enjoy every moment, just as it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know that feeling when you\u2019re constantly running around and yet there\u2019s always more to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Accepting reality - Elisabeth Sigrist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/elisabethsigrist.com\/en\/accepting-reality\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Accepting reality - 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