Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Half full, half empty?
As I cycled east beside Hyde Park at 6.15am this morning on my way to work I found myself heading directly into the sun. After more rain last night and the remnants of heavy clouds still hanging low, the rising sun elbowed its way to shine horizontally and directly underneath them, powerful and blinding after the London pollution and pollen has been washed out of our air leaving it crystal clear, and so pleasant to breathe. The sun could be no brighter. It was a strange and most beautiful combination of dark clouds and the most brilliant sunshine. I thought how like our own experiences in life is this, the combination and contrast of bright joy and cloudy gloom?
Is your day cloudy or sunny? Is your cup half empty or half full? How do you perceive your day? If I looked up at our new sky this morning I could see cloud, but although I knew it's there, I prefered to notice the sun, and although I could not look directly at it, I saw it's brilliance reflected on everything around. Everything was smiling, the walls, the glistening pavement, the blond sandstone buildings, the newly budded leaves on oaks and birches of Hyde Park were all aglow and looking perky with their refreshing wash in heavy rain and the warm and sunny brilliance.
Is today going to be a good day? Depends on how I look at it. I may see clouds or see sun depending on my outlook, I may see problems looming or I may see solutions, positive outcomes, happy conclusions, a day full of cheerful clients smiling with contentment at their progress with the Alexander Technique. I could look at the bucket of rain water on the floor of my clinic and think 'Oh dear...what a disaster', or I may think 'The rain has stopped, it's drying out and it's not stained the carpet and anyway, it's all going to be fixed pretty soon. Great'.
Is your cup half empty this morning or is it half full? Have you decided that today....and tomorrow are going to be great days? There is one person in this world who can do more, ten thousand times more than anyone else to make sure that our life goes the way we would like it and that is the owner, possessor, captain and Lord and Master of the life itself, namely ourselves. It is you and me. We are better placed than anyone else in the whole world to make a difference to how we feel. Even if we need a doctor, a roof repair person, a lawyer, a new job or a new relationship. The solution to how we feel starts and finishes with our own relationship with ourselves.
You and I can make ourselves feel good in an instant if we choose. And if it takes more than an instant to change, then we don't give up, but think ourselves into the better state. Whether it's the plumber, hairdresser or company boss we feel we need to sort out our problem, we can shift our sense of well being right now by just choosing to be happy. We can send our happiness level right up the Richter Scale by just choosing to feel good. Now don't tell me that you don't know what feeling good, feels like. Even if it's many months or even years, owing to upset, ill health or longterm situation, somewhere and sometime ago, we felt really good, really happy. And with this previous experience we know the sensation. You can create that sensation for yourself right now if you choose.
There are always things in life that we can see as being terrible, upsetting, worrying and unwanted, but equally we can 'see' things in life that are wonderful. We can start being grateful for what we've got. Two hands and eyes are pretty good for starters amongst so many thousands of other things we take for granted. Gratitude for what we've got brings a smile and with a smile comes happiness. When we are happy we are attracting more of the same experience into our lives. It's the Law of Attraction and 'Thinking makes it so.'
Is today going to be a cloudy day or a bright sunny day? For me, 'I don't give a damn.' The weather won't affect how I feel, one way or another, because the way I feel is up to me to choose. I am not dependent on anyone or any thing for my own sense of happiness, and neither are you. We are all capable of making our own choices in life. So with this, you might just like to choose to think of the big things, the things you want. Look on the bright side, see what makes you happy. Don't look for problems. See solutions; 'see' things as you would really like them.
The sun can be shining for you, no matter what the weather is doing. :-)
Have a great day.
