Is the following a matter of computer viruses or (if you’re into astrology) perhaps Mercury is in retrograde?
A few Fridays ago, late in the day, both my PC
and Mac computers shut down for no apparent reason. I’m somewhat computer challenged so I was a bit helpless until I could take my PC into the shop the next business day, which was that following Monday morning. I didn’t have any idea they’d be keeping my precious computer for
two weeks. At the time, I used my PC on a daily basis. Now with both computers on the blink, I was going to be stuck—Internet-less.
I felt this “happening” was an important reminder for me:
Take life as it comes, and then relax. Eckhart Tolle (author of
The Power of Now and
A New Earth) talks about
accepting what is. Not an easy concept right off the bat, but without acceptance we usually cause ourselves unneeded mental anguish and suffering. Sometimes happiness comes from simply accepting what is.
At the very time my computers gave
out, I had a lot of work to do on my website along with articles to write for this blogsite. I also do a lot of communication with clients (as well
as family and friends) online, so it was incredibly inhibiting to not
have access to my own, personal computer and running over to Kinkos to
keep up with my business emails. (And that is exactly what I ended up doing!)
The good news is I got through this computer glitch without too much pain and suffering. I decided to just let go and let life do what life wanted to do. I could have gotten upset and found all the reasons why this event was causing hardship in my life. Instead, I
decided to just
relax into the now and do other things in the
meantime. Things that didn’t involve a computer.
It’s not that easy to “just relax” when life takes unexpected
twists and turns. But what other choice is there—really?
The alternative to breathing and relaxing in the moment is to stress and worry about things that usually you have no control over. Obviously, computer problems don’t compare to real life traumas like the loss of a loved
one or news that actually changes your life. But staying in the
moment and not letting your thoughts go too far into the future or delving back into the past can
really help you from getting too stressed-out at any given moment. It
is not effortless to do—actually, that is
exactly what it is!
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| Happiness is having my PC back |
Practice
staying in the moment and
accepting what is as often as possible—especially when things go sideways. Once you get used to
relaxing in the now, the calm state that follows will come more
naturally to you, and I believe it will serve you when the winds of change
come blowing through your life.
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Rest well and take care of yourself. I’m saying this to myself as well as to you!
