Life is a Positive Event

What positive events have taken place in your life over the past year?

I had a wake up call this week. Unfortunately I’d allowed myself to spiral down.

Tony was made redundant earlier this year affecting our retirement plans. He was two weeks off 64 and they blithely said “oh you’ll get another job”. Which was nothing more than a conscience soothing exercise.

He did get another job on 2/3 of his old wage, leaving us £1k short a month.

I don’t particularly worry about money, but I do hate the way they treated him. The boss wrote in his card that he was indebted to Tony and wouldn’t have known what to do without him at the beginning, and he was instrumental in getting the company where it was today.

I’m becoming increasingly fed up with the casual unkindness in this world. As well as all the other things humans can cook up to do that the average decent mind cannot comprehend.

Fed up with politicians who do nothing and allow countries to spiral, and definitely fed up with the war mongers.

You get the drift, but the drift has stopped.

The positive drift

I was meditating and gratitude came into my mind. We may not like where we live but we have a house. it may not be well decorated but it could be, and we just prefer going out. We’re not interested in a show home anyway, pretty dumb idea with pets. 😻🙄🤣

Where we live has possibly the best road system in the UK. We’re getting hundreds more houses and I doubt if we will notice that much. We have a shopping mall and new shops are always opening.

Instead of thinking “oh yes, gratitude, excellent idea, I must pencil that in to consider”, I found that the word resonated as never before. This is happening a lot lately. Words I’ve heard a hundred times are switching on lightbulbs all over the place. If I was a house you would see me from space.

Advanced (age) improvement

It may sound odd that at way over 60 I’ve had this improvement in my mindset, I’ve known about gratitude for a very long time and I’ve practiced it. Ho’oponopono is based on love and gratitude, and there have been times in my life that I’ve been filled to the brim with it. But it comes and goes, and being alone 90% of the time for 34 years, sometimes 100% of the time when hubby worked away, is tiring.

Upbeat becomes just another burden to carry in a mind exhausted by stubbornly being happy.

Something I learned years ago is in play here, you can know something in your mind, recognise it as absolute truth, but until that truth reaches the heart and becomes who you are it’s knowledge not being.

That’s what’s happened. My meditations now mean far more to me, and the power of them has increased ten fold.

There’s another thing in play too. It’s absolutely wonderful to be able to change and grow when you’re actually in your 7th decade with the 8th pulling you gently towards it by the hand.

It’s amazing to still be open minded, not jaded, recognising the problems of life but not being aged by them. To not be banging on about the good old days, how much better things were, and they were. But it is no more use to me to think like that than to younger generations who didn’t experience it.

These are the good old days to them, and I sincerely hope they get better good old days going forward. I was born at an utterly blessed time in history.

So, maybe I can’t bring many positive events to mind from this year, but there have certainly been good times. Over the years there have been many exciting times and I’m re- appreciating them with my new mindset.

Never be too old to change for the better.

Let me repeat that:

Never be too old to change for the better. it’s positively youthful to change for the better.

Best love as always

Amorah – Deb