Tired of Being Sick and Tired?

So you are tired of being sick and tired.  You are having a bad year or have had a bad decade, nothing has gone well for you, well so you think.  You’ve done just about all that you can do and what you’ve done has exhausted all of your resources.  All of your attempts to fix the situation failed and to add insult to injury, it has gotten worst. It seems like you’re in a cycle that keeps producing the same negative results.  You’ve reached your wits end and help isn’t coming fast enough.  You’ve cried, prayed, meditated, recited your daily mantras, thought positively, sought counseling, talked to friends, applied hope, but nothing has worked.  So you are at the same place where you’ve begun and you’re tired of being sick and tired of the same BS. 

What’s next you ask?  Well have you considered living with uncertainty and detaching from the outcome, from the expectations you’ve set for yourself or the situation?  It’s certainly not easy to do, but living with uncertainty gives us the certainty that we are not in control of the outcome.  We are only in control of our response. 

Take rest in the knowledge that not ever thing in our life needs to be worked out, fixed, changed, or improved.  And when fixing or changing is required, it is usually us who needs it. And if we start from that place first, the situation changes on its own.  However, some things are just the way they are and there isn’t anything you or I can do about them.  This sounds very pessimistic, but on the contrary it’s an optimistic view point because it challenges you to accept the things you can not change and find peace in that, which you so desperately need now.  There are some who have spent a lifetime trying to fix whatever they weren’t pleased with in their lives.  Unfortunately, most of them failed horribly and lived a much unfulfilled life.   Do you want to be one of them?

Pema Chodron, author of Comfortable With Uncertainty offers four methods for working with chaos in your life.

1. When you encounter difficulties in your life, slow down enough to be present, let go of the multitude of judgments and schemes, and stop struggling.
2. Use the poison as fuel to wake up. Don’t push difficult situation away, use them to connect with other people who, just like you, are in pain.
3. When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of enlightenment. 
4. Regard whatever arises as the manifestation of awakened energy.  Use everything in your life as the basis for attaining enlightenment.

Tired of Being Sick and Tired is a paradigm-shifting workshop presented by Deborah George-Feres.  Interested in having Deborah present this workshop at one of your event?  Email her at info@indigocoachingsystems.com.