Pull your head out of stress and look at the beauty of life—Chase freedom.  I think we all just needed a little reminder about focus in life.  We have chosen stress as a badge of honor and it becomes addictive.  Like any addiction, we don’t truly enjoy being in that state but we are familiar with it and we feel we know how to function when we are under stress.  That way of functioning is a distraction like so many other things around us.  When we are distracted we miss the beauty of things around us, the beauty of life.  There is this amazing natural flow, this ebb and flow of life that brings us exactly where we need to be if we learn to let go of the reins and start working with life as it is.  It takes a lot to release fear, especially fear of the unknown because we are used to what we know—and what we know is fear of what can happen.  The truth is there are certain events that are going to happen no matter what we do.  Knowing that, we need to understand that what we can control is both limited and infinite.

We can choose our vantage point for every circumstance.  We can choose our reaction.  We can choose our emotion.  We can choose the words we say.  We can’t always choose what happens, but we are able to choose our part in it.  We can choose what we engage with and what we walk away from.  We can set our boundaries and follow our path.  We choose who we surround ourselves with and how we expend our energy.  We choose to follow creative outlets.  We have no say in what the people around us do.  We have no say in how they react to us or how they treat us.  We have no say in their decisions.  We are able to decide to not to take it personally and simply move on.  We also have the ability to understand that 90% of our stress is self-created.  When we look at it that way, we need to ask why we would waste our creative energy on causing pain for ourselves.  There are far better ways to use our energy.

When we open up to the beauty of life and see the possibilities, when we choose to follow our path, when we choose to see the good, suddenly we are free.  It’s like taking off the blinders and seeing all the good that exists in the world and understanding it was always there.  We have to ask ourselves why we live in a society that wants to keep us from such an existence.  What benefit do they have keeping us in a state of fear and stress?  It keeps us repeating the pattern, the cycle, and it keeps the system going that benefits the few.  When we decide to see the beauty and live in that state, we cast aside all the fears and old programming of what it meant to be to live.  We see that there are all of these other ways that we have options for.  When we rise above the fear and stress, we are free.  There is very little that can disrupt us in the way of peace when we understand our purpose and we take control of our decisions.  Choose how we want to feel and go with that.  Don’t chase the same thing others have told us provide value—chase freedom and living how we want to live so we can connect with the ultimate purpose and goal: freedom for ourselves and others to live how we are meant to live.  Change the focus.