Embracing Challenges in Your Life

Mind Matters by Gordon Bruin

• If you choose to look at the very thing that you're struggling with right now as orchestrated for your benefit, all will be well with you.
• People enter therapy to resolve issues, but when they express the issues that they're really dealing with, they're complex issues. But if we look at things from a different perspective, we can learn from this struggle.
• A young boy found a cocoon lying on the ground and watched as a moth struggled to make its way out. In his sympathy, he reached down and tore open the cocoon, but the moth was not able to keep flying and soon died.
• I'd encourage you to consider looking at your challenges and problems from the perspective that they were designed for you specifically, on point, exactly what you're dealing with right now, and that you're still in the process of growing.
• The struggle with problems and challenges is what gives life its meaning. It's the struggle that makes us stronger, just like a moth trying to get out of its cocoon, and it's a great opportunity to develop patience, understanding, empathy, and above all, be kind to yourself.