Appreciate your own Sunshine

Appreciate your own Sunshine
written by, Julie Miller
[personal file]
February 01, 2013

How many times do we take even the smallest things for granted; like being able to brush your hair, making bread or other hands-on sticky recipes, being able to tie shoes, etc.? We have learned over the course of our lives regardless of our age how to be thankful of the big things that are easily seen but the small things also make up a great part of our presence – we are a balance of both.

Any person that has endured a broken bone understands what it is like to do without a specific motor function…all that we do effects so much. How we gain the broken bone isn’t really relevant but the lessons that come with it are astronomical. Anytime we must live without something even for a few weeks requires adjustment for our whole being to take on…it’s a learning opportunity that includes the areas that may have been previously ignored.

The right side of the body represents the masculine whereas the left side represents the feminine aspect. Most of the time when we go about our day we do not think of right side vs. left side or masculine vs. feminine when we feel a sudden ache or we bump into something and receive a bruise. Whenever we do find ourselves stumbling it is up to ourselves to know why. Our body with its subtle messages provides us with a lifetime of information and stored knowledge - opportunities for deeper growth and understanding is presented when we discover a new ache or pain. All the clever books written cannot tell you the knowledge your body has for you. Our bodies speak to us in a language that is discernible for each person…What a marvel on ingenuity to appreciate!

Sometimes it is hard to appreciate and rejoice in the challenges that are presented to us when any kind of pain is involved. It’s always easier to appreciate the easy stuff, but the hard and most trying of challenges also require appreciation. Everything we do comes with a momentous amount of lessons, from walking to the store, to saying, “Excuse me” as you move past another person, to a family or close friend that has been seriously hurt or discovering a new illness – lessons surround us as soon as we wake and until we go to sleep again. And our lessons surround the choices we make.

Making mistakes, accidents, errors, etc., are a part of life. We cannot progress without them. As predictable our life can become or how boring it can seem at times, our life is a precious gift. Each mistake we make we need to appreciate what we learned from it, and the learning isn’t just providing us with one possible soul-ution but many and the one we choose is the one we must stick to and be responsible for and appreciate. There are no such things as accidents, only opportunities to try again, develop keener observation skills, and to appreciate the specialness of your life. There is never any reason for a person of any age to be bored when life presents us with endless opportunities and choices to enrich our lives.

Sometimes we must repeat mistakes before we learn the lesson that is involved and break its cycle and some cycles are described as vicious. They can be exhausting and repeating cycles seem to develop a life of their own if we let them and that is the key…if we let them. At every step of our journey, no matter who else may be involved we are solely responsible for the choices we make and the sooner we give appreciation to them, the sooner we see and learn the lesson then the quicker we move ahead into new challenges and lessons that are always for our benefit. The knowledge we have gained, and the wisdom we have is on-going. How we choose to react to each new challenge also determines the duration and level of energy that will be utilized. No matter how difficult it is to face those hard circumstances with a smile or laugh each time it is important for you, for us and for me. Don’t chastise yourself if you find yourself tired during some issues but perfectly okay with others, our psyche reacts to change at different speeds for different things. Embrace the changes as best you can and appreciate yourself with self-love and self-care; learn and think that this mistake, this pain or this lesson is an opportunity to learn and to increase our knowledge of ourselves that will definitely help our interactions with others.

Life is a gift, most definitely. Trying to put ourselves in another person’s shoes to experience what it is like to manoeuvre with a broken bone is very difficult in order to appreciate the ability and value to being able to do the smallest of things. Unfold this mystery by not imagining but to visualize going through our exact day with a broken hand, or broken leg or with an illness that drains you almost instantly. Discover the challenges you will most likely face that were not there before, a very big WOW moves through not only your busy mind but throughout your whole self with new-found understanding and awareness. Yes we must continue moving forward solving our own mystery of our own life but taking on a more observant and appreciative approach is good to manifest all possible positive outcomes. Embrace and rejoice to learn why only one part or side of the body had to get your attention, learn what could be lacking and work at re-balancing your Self from the inside and discover more about yourself from the adventure.

Appreciation is more than saying thank you for a gift or praise, appreciation is acknowledging that what you have is suffice because there are others that are worse off. Even within the spiritual circles there is too much complaining, competition among people instead of truly unifying through good-natured love for one another. Appreciate each other with love and respect; appreciate the good and the bad. We are derived of both negative and positive traits, negative and positive energies – appreciate all for they speak of you and of me as active beings working together bring unity in our own way on a global scale.

If the coffee/tea in your cup grows cold don’t complain appreciate that you have a beverage that was once hot and you can still drink it; we must remember there are many who would love to have that cold drink and things could always be worse than a cold coffee or tea. Smile more often especially during the darkest of times – be your own sunshine.

Brightest Blessings

Julie Miller