LilyHighOnLife #4
Change Your Attitude, Change Your LIfe
Being High On Life means feeling good in each moment. No drugs, no alcohol, just a feeling of well-being with a genuine smile.
I now truly understand the saying ‘you cannot change other people, you can only change yourself’. The even greater truth about that statement is that once you change, you find that other people around you change. Your new behaviour elicits new responses.
I am the only person i can control, and i don’t need anyone else’s permission to change. i decide and I do it. I can plan it, or I can do it in the moment, doesn’t matter, if I am not happy about something, I can make a different choice, even if it involves another person. I don’t have to continue an argument, I can walk away or I can stop and acknowledge the other person, from their perspective they are absolutely correct. I don’t need to insist that my perspective is correct. Coming from love, is understanding someone else is sincere in their belief without insisting they agree with me.
Other people have had their own very different experiences in life, so we do not all understand things in the same way. It’s okay if we need different things out of life. I only need to understand me and what I need, which is to follow my own guidance system, we all have one, and it reminds me the most important thing is that I feel good.
Three or four people may see the same accident and give very different accounts of what happened because they saw it from different vantage points. It is the same with most situations, we bring out previous life experiences into any situation, so will have our own perspective on it. We are all correct because we all bring our unique experiences and beliefs from our past history, which result in a perspective different to anyone else’s. I have learned to listen to people, so I can understand where their perspective comes from rather than tell them they are wrong if I disagree. I don’t need to be right. If I insist that I am right and become argumentative, very soon I become agitated and feel the opposite of good. So if nothing is more important than feeling good, I am working against myself. Being kind is understanding someone else, allowing them their freedom to also feel good.
We all want to be loved and respected, just because we are human. As you go about your day, smile more, be a little kinder to everyone and spread the love.
I’m Lily and I want to live in a world where people smile more, are kind to others and come from love. Let me know how you are enjoying your life.
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