Living Your Best Life  

Whether you have been in a debilitating accident that has left you disabled.  Whether you suffer from cancer, a chronic disease, a painful ailment or a debilitating addiction—whether everyday you live with any kind of physical or mental health issue—you are still entitled to live your best life. 

Life, like the butterfly offers a truly miraculous transformation with an unfolding of incredible wisdom, especially when remaining focused on the present moment.  This is the teaching of many ancient and present day sages.  However, there is much truth to be learned from the past and it would be foolish to ignore the future.  The lessons learned from the past are the guiding light into the future.  It is therefore best not to take the advice of living in the moment too literally.  With all this in mind, you can use your thoughts, feelings and emotions about the past and the future to create your best life.

“To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. 
The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment,
to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh

I am not going to go into a lot of detail here on this page as to how to live your best life.  There are many, many websites, YouTube videos, podcasts and on-line courses that can offer you wonderful solutions, help, incentives and motivation to get your life on track. 

Ask yourself the following questions:

• What do you envision your best life looking like?
• How do you feel about your current life?
• Do you look forward to tomorrow?
• Do you live each day with excitement?
• Do you dwell on the past?
• Do you find it difficult to forgive others and yourself?
• Do you find it difficult to be grateful to others and to yourself?

How to get started on living your best life:

• Let Go of the Past
• Offer Forgiveness
• Be Gratitude
• Choose Kindness
• Don’t Take Things Too Personally
• Realize That You Are Enough
• Choose Less Over More
• Appreciate What You Have
• Stop Worrying About the Future
• Watch for New Opportunities

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness;
it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
— Aldous Huxley

Letting go of the past is probably the number one best recommendation as to where to start to heal yourself and start living your best life.  By letting go of the past, it then leads to being able to offer forgiveness and gratitude.  Everyone has a story.  Everyone has a past.  Everyone has emotional baggage that they carry around with them throughout their lives.  Everyone has choices that they wish they never made.  Everyone has people that they wish they never met or were never part of their lives.  Everyone has a family member or two that they wish was not so.  Everyone has anger, hatred and regrets that brew in the deepest parts of their psyche on mental, emotional and spiritual levels.

Triggers are another thing that you will have to learn to live with on this journey of letting go of the past.  When you react to a trigger and have a meltdown or a blow up; people around you will not know how to react to you or deal with you.  The reactions, emotions and fallout to your triggers can be devastating to your relationships with family, friends, loved ones and your community. 

It is time to let go of the past, to let go of all that baggage.  It is not healthy for you or the people that are around you.  It is what is holding you back.  Letting go of the past and all the baggage that goes with it is not an easy journey, but it is one that is well worth taking.  You can take that recommendation from me, someone who has made that journey, and it was the best thing that I ever did for myself.

This journey is not one that you can take on your own.  It is going to take a lot of time.  It is like peeling an onion.  There are layers and layers and more layers to this journey and just when you think you have uncovered all the layers, there are still more that reveal themselves.  There are numerous resources out there and people that can help you on this journey.  I will not get into that here on this website.  Do your own research.  They exist all around you. 

With everything that you are able to release, you will feel lighter and more content with yourself, with your environment, and with those around you.  Being able to forgive others and more importantly yourself is huge.  Being able to offer gratitude to others and more importantly to acknowledge the gratitude that you are able to give yourself and the life that you have lived thus far is huge, especially if the gratitude can be heartfelt.  Now you are able to start to manifest your future and your best life.

“You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it,
it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.”
— Kim Kiyosaki

Along with dealing with and letting go of the past, it is a good idea to de-clutter your life.  Take stock of all the things that you no longer need or no longer have meaning or sentimental value.  If you are a hoarder, acknowledge that it is an addictive behaviour and get rid of all that stuff.  Let go and feel lighter.

Appreciate all the things that you do have in your life.  Realize and acknowledge your own self-worth.  Pat yourself on the back for all that you have accomplished in life.  Start with simply praising yourself that you have survived this far in your life.  Make statements like; “I am enough.”  Make daily affirmations to help you remain anchored into your present state of mind and to manifest the future that you desire.

Create a vision board and place it somewhere you can see it daily; constantly in your everyday life.  Keep it relevant and have realistic desires.  The future is at hand.  Life has a tendency to constantly take turns that you did not expect.  Prepare yourself for these unexpected turns, emotional rollercoaster’s, mental and physical challenges.  The more work you can do on yourself, the better prepared you will be for anything that life may throw at you.

“Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want.”
— Richard Koch

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