The two fundamental life experiences

Life is a succession of circumstances, people and events. When we do not have sufficient attention and clarity, it is difficult for us to know what is really happening beyond what it seems. This makes us feel confused.

Remember something vital: Confusion = Pain Clarity = Peace / Happiness / Bliss.

A totally liberating key that has already helped countless people is define your current situation in a real and useful way.

From my point of view, whatever happens, apparently, we are always doing, only and exclusively, only two things: walking through the meadow or going up the mountain.

walk through the meadow

Imagine that you are walking leisurely through a valley and you are going on a very even lane with pretty trees and flowers all around you while the sun is shining. It heats up, but it doesn't burn you. It's nice, and you feel great. This scene represents those moments in your life in which you are comfortable.

It's those moments when you don't move in any particular direction. Everything happens relatively easily. You are relaxed. Your day to day is simple, and it does not require much effort to cope with it.

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Climb the mountain

As you already know, this is about something very hard and demanding: your muscles ache, you feel tired and exhausted. During the ascent, your mind tells you to stop climbing, that you can no longer and that you no longer want to continue and questions:

"Because I am here?". "Why did this touch me?"

This represents those moments in any life that are very uncomfortable and painful, in which something very severe has surely happened, such as a death or some type of illness of a relative, or perhaps you have lost your job or have divorced. All these occasions require a lot of effort on your part.

When you are in the midst of these circumstances, it seems that what you are experiencing is very bad, terrible even. However, what happens is that when you are walking through the meadow you are usually comfortable (even if you are in a real uncomfortable), in a non-challenging situation, pleasant or not, in which, of course, learning and progress is often equal to zero.

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the comfort zone

There is a stagnation in what is usually called: "Comfort zone", in which you are not evolving. Conversely, when you ascend to the top, you are struggling, learning, and every second is a challenge that requires you to test your strength, learn new skills...

The mountain, or the obstacle, however great it may be, always ends, and once you climb and crown it, you have reached the goal.

And you know what? The harder and longer the climb, the more beautiful the views once you reach the top.

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Imagine that you have already traveled the path and you are at the top

The sun sets in front of you in the distance. You can see a beautiful landscape that unfolds before your feet and a green forest crossed by a beautiful river drawn in the distance, under the clouds. A flock of birds crosses that wonderful valley.

The higher the mountain, the most beautiful views you'll see when you get to the top.

Opening yourself to live the process with attention will provide you with the necessary learning and development of your abilities or skills such as inner strength, courage, perseverance... This will be invaluable to you and will allow you to live life, from the moment you reach the top, in a fuller and more prosperous way.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the benefit

There is something you should also know, and that is that there are two types of mountains:

The ones that life gives us

They are inherent to exist, and we will all go through them sooner or later: illness, old age, death, accidents, love separations...

the ones you choose

Starting a relationship, starting a business, economic, physical goals...

Concluding...

So, from now on, be clear that nothing of what you have lived and of what is happening to you is good or bad... Either you are climbing the mountain (with all that it entails, pleasant and painful) or you are simply walking through the meadow. But remember: Only those who climb the most challenging peaks will be able to contemplate their best life.

So cheer up, and go ahead!