Feeling Lost
Marie Forleo is one of the women who are a source of inspiration for me, a role model that helps me get my life in order. This particular video is about feeling lost and confused. I chose to write specifically about this video because recently I felt like a mess, bad thoughts were running around in my head and didn’t give me rest, I felt lost, helpless, like the world was crumbling. Maybe it’s a bit dramatic, but these feelings and thoughts occasionally appear in all of our heads and don’t give us rest. In the video Marie teaches how to deal with this reality in which we feel lost and come out on the other side, strong and renewed.
In this video Marie emphasizes the following principles:
* Take it one step at a time: Concentrate on what you’re doing right now, and slowly achieve the goals that are in front of you.
* Everything happens for the best / for a reason: It may sound clichéd, but it is a great worldview! We must remember that a thing has no meaning other than the meaning we attribute to it. The choice is in our hands, whether to attribute to each case a meaning that uplifts us or a meaning that oppresses us.
* Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional: Nothing lasts forever, not even pain. Instead of repeatedly thinking that we are victims and recreating the pain with depressing thoughts, allow yourself to feel the pain in your body and experience it without experiencing mental drama and without getting lost in thoughts like “Why did this happen to me?”, “Why am I such a failure?” etc… These are all stories we tell ourselves, which are not true, and if we experience the physical pain without focusing on the mental pain the suffering will end before we even notice.
* Live in the present: What usually keeps us captive in this confusion are anxieties and fears that arise from thoughts about the past and the future – despite the fact that the only time in which we are able to control what is happening is the present. In order to find our way, we must live in the moment and deal with the things that are happening now, give the present our full attention and experience it, fully.
* Today is the day: In order to return to the norm we must start eating healthy today and leave the “mourning food” aside (ice cream and Chinese fast food), do sports TODAY, go out with friends TODAY, do what needs to be done TODAY. Not for the whole week, not to commit for a month or for the rest of your life, but today! Especially when we don’t feel like doing something that has to be done anyway (laundry for example…).
-Sapir-