If you woke up tomorrow morning and found your body 10 years
\nyounger, what would be different? How about 20 years younger?<\/p>\n
You might be tempted to think first of how you looked 10 or 20
\nyears ago. Maybe you’ll remember having more energy, better
\neyesight, or better memory.<\/p>\n
The truth is, youthfulness can be summed up in one word:
\nresilience.<\/p>\n
It’s all about the ability to respond and bounce back.<\/p>\n
And the good news is, you can have a more youthful body by
\nfocusing on resilience–but not on physical resilience.<\/p>\n
The more the average person longingly focuses on having the
\nbody, skin, energy, vision, hearing, teeth, blood pressure,
\ncholesterol levels, etc. of a healthy young person, the more that
\nperson usually experiences powerlessness, frustration and even
\ndepression that that’s not what’s happening.<\/p>\n
Then, the more powerlessness, frustration and depression about
\nthe aging process, the more stress, and the more quickly aging
\nprogresses.<\/p>\n
WAS WATTLES WRONG?<\/p>\n
But, isn’t that what we’re supposed to do? Aren’t we supposed to
\nfocus on what we want to manifest?<\/p>\n
Even though Mr. Wattles advises this, my experience is that most
\npeople do not experience healing or reversing the aging process
\nby focusing on health or youth. <\/p>\n
It’s not because Mr. Wattles was wrong. <\/p>\n
It’s because most of us are not in a high enough vibration most
\nof the time to be able to create that kind of body
\ntransformation.<\/p>\n
What should we do instead?<\/p>\n
One of the best things I’ve found is to focus on resilience.<\/p>\n
You’ve no doubt heard the advice that when you fall down, don’t
\njust wallow in the mud. Get up!<\/p>\n
But it’s important to know the metaphorical significance here.<\/p>\n
It’s not just the ACTION of getting up. It’s the courage to
\nchange the story you are telling yourself about what it meant to
\nfall down, what it means to get up, and why you want to.<\/p>\n
And, it’s not just changing the story, challenging your thoughts
\nand beliefs, it IS also about taking the action to get back up.<\/p>\n
Resilience is all of that.<\/p>\n
This may sound good and well as a general idea. But it’s
\nmeaningless until you can actually recognize when you are in a
\nrelevant situation and apply it in your life.<\/p>\n
AN EXAMPLE<\/p>\n
Here’s an example to help you out.<\/p>\n
Elvis has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He feels
\npretty depressed about the likelihood of losing his sex life
\npermanently, the time, effort, attention, and money it will take
\nto be treated, not to mention the possibility that he won’t be
\naround for his grandkids.<\/p>\n
In his case, the “falling down” is falling prey to the barrage
\nof negative thoughts about what it means for him to have prostate
\ncancer. Getting up is about reinterpreting his situation, telling
\na new story about what it means, and putting his attention on his
\nreasons for making the mental shift–and this last part is
\ncritical–REGARDLESS of the signs and symptoms in his body.<\/p>\n
In other words, getting sick or injured is not “falling down.”
\nIt’s not a sign of failure or accident. It’s the natural,
\ncumulative result of your own energetic vibrational state. <\/p>\n
The falling down part is when you believe you are powerless to
\ncreate happiness, that there’s something wrong with you, that
\nsomeone is to blame for your situation.<\/p>\n
The getting up part is when you remember your true relationship
\nwith the divine, with all of creation. It’s when you remember you
\nhave eternal life, so your opportunities for love, life, growth,
\nand creation, are endless.<\/p>\n
The getting up part is when you remember that you are entirely
\ncapable of believing what you choose to believe, and that you are
\ntherefore capable of being happy, you are fine just where and as
\nyou are, and you are powerful enough to create your life as you
\nwish it to be.<\/p>\n
Even if this doesn’t quite match your religious or spiritual
\nbeliefs, you can apply the concept of resilience to any situation
\nin which you find yourself.<\/p>\n
It means that whatever mood you find yourself in, whatever you
\nfind yourself focusing on, if you don’t like it, turn your
\nattention to what you would prefer. <\/p>\n
As soon as you start thinking about resilience, you’re
\nremembering that it isn’t always like this. You aren’t always in
\nthis space. This isn’t the only way to view what’s going on. You
\nare a person who can shift from wherever you are to a more
\nflexible perspective.<\/p>\n
It’s a funny thing that happens to some people as they “age.”
\nThey get more attached to being right about “how it is,” because
\nthey have piled up lots of evidence to confirm their beliefs.<\/p>\n
But, if it’s true that your beliefs are self-fulfilling
\nprophecies, then the only thing that has happened is that
\nbeliefs, helpful or not, are reinforced by their own
\nconsequences. <\/p>\n
When you understand resilience, you understand that you do not
\nwant to build your life based on evidence that limiting,
\nscarcity, separation, or fear-based beliefs are correct. <\/p>\n
You want to build your life based on evidence of abundance,
\noneness, goodness, power, optimism, expansion, and possibility.<\/p>\n
YOUR OWN RESILIENT LIFE<\/p>\n
When you think about how to apply resilience in your own life,
\nconsider the situations in which you feel stuck or limited.
\nFamily relationships? Money? Career? Home? Intimate relationship?
\nFriends? Something about your body or personality that you don’t
\nlike?<\/p>\n
What beliefs are you practicing? What aspects of things are you
\nfocusing your attention on?<\/p>\n
What would be a more resilient way to respond to the situation?<\/p>\n
In a way, resilience is all about applying the serenity prayer:
\nhaving the courage to accept the things you cannot change, change
\nthe things you can, and having the wisdom to know the difference.<\/p>\n
The key is to know just how much power you really do have to
\naffect change your own life experience, by focusing on the two
\nthings you really can change: the thoughts, beliefs, and
\nsensations you focus your attention on, and the actions you take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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