“Your Problems R Your Teachers!”

One of the greatest sources of stress in our day to day lives is our problems. The stress comes from how we relate to our problems than it does with the problem themselves. For example, how much of a problem do we make our problems? Are they seen as emergencies or as potential teachers?

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Problems come in many shapes, sizes and degrees of seriousness but they all have one thing in common they affect us in a way that we don’t enjoy and desire not to entertain. Struggling with our problems and hoping for them to go away makes all appear worse and the more stressful the situation becomes.

When we accept our problems as an inevitable part of life, and see them as potential teachers or life lessons, the stress is almost non existing and it does not weigh heavily on the heart, mind, soul and spirit.

Try to remember a time when you struggled for a long time with a problem and how it made you feel during that time of struggle. How have you dealt with this problem to date? During our struggling times with our problems, mentally we go over and over the problem, analyzed it again and again, to no end. At the end of the day, where has all this struggling led you? Usually with that current state of mind of fighting the problem…