THE MORNING CURIOSITY

There are some mornings that I awake feeling horrible it is like I never slept. I sit up in bed for a few minutes and listen to my body. I sit up in bed and listen to the random thoughts that pass through my awakening process. Usually, dreams I had before awakening are still playing and I process them for importance and relevance in my life. Often these dreams are loose relations to what is happening in my life at the moment. Sometimes they are just variations to movies I have watched the night before.

This morning I opened the shade to a bright sunny day. I sat there for a moment and one thought flooded my mind. If I think my life is bad at this point, it can always get worse. If I think my life is good at this point, it can always get better. I sat with this for a few more minutes before starting my morning routine (dare say ritual?). It continued to play around in my head, this thought. Life is indeed about the frame of mind. Life is indeed about how we perceive the events in our lives.

If I choose to perceive every moment with a negative shade, then everything will not have the luster of what it may have if I thought of it with a positive light. Think about it. No matter what even comes through our lives, it is how we perceive and then choose to act or react to the event that brings it into a positive light or a negative shade. Some events are more profound than others. But if I choose to look at it with a perspective of learning and curiosity, then I always learn something.

I learn something about myself and about life in general. How I choose to look at life and act creates my reality. My future can either be positive or negative. It is ENTIRELY UP TO ME. It is completely in my power what level of happiness and sorrow I choose to experience. Sorrow with never disappear. But as it is stated in the Tao te Ching; know its purpose and how long it needs to remain in your life. Understanding people and their intentions and actions, I have learned that anything I have witnessed or experienced negatively from others has very little to do with me and more to do with how they have chosen to react (rather than act) to the events in their life.

Today I say live with intention, live with understanding, and most important, live with curiosity for life and what presents you every day. There is more that happens in one day that you miss (or dismiss) that could make a change in your understanding of life and yourself. I was told so many decades ago that there is one moment in each and every day where you can change the world. This statement had taken me years to understand. In its profound simplicity, it is so very true.

If you simply smile at one person (a person you walk past in a store, or the person handing you your morning coffee) that very event can carry from person to person. It is like the concept of paying it forward. Think of how that simple action can change the morning of the person, and how that can change their actions for others, so on and so forth. This is one of the most amazing human concepts I have learned. It is so very simple and it is free! So, tomorrow morning when you awaken, I ask that you awaken with curiosity and understanding in your heart. It can change your day and ultimately, your life.