You’re Allowed Moments of Good Amid This Bad
Life/reality is never only one thing.
This is one of the most convoluted, ridiculous times anyone could have imagined living in. After some 50 years of steady progress with inclusivity, diversity, environmental protections, expanding rights, and other milestones, here we are. In just 6 months, our so-called leaders have done truly surreal harm.
It’s not just here in the United States, of course. Putin and his war in Ukraine, the insanity between Netanyahu’s government and Hamas and the Palestinians, it feels like we are utterly surrounded by bad people and awful things.
Maybe shit’s going down around the world. But that doesn’t mean your life should reflect that.
You have every right to moments of good amid this bad.
The three levels of reality in everyone’s life
Life, and reality as we know it, exists on 3 levels.
Level One: Level one reality is usually the most abstract and distant from you and me. This is where our greater society is. In level one, you get demagogues, gurus, celebrities, and all sorts of influencers that you likely have ZERO actual, factual contact with. Ergo, you have no control over them.
Level Two: Level two reality is the world immediately outside of yourself. This is where your home, family, friends, and all the things in your life, externally, exist. The collective consciousness, where our fear-based society tends to feed, is how the people around you, together, accept certain things. This includes the color of the sky, laws of the land, and such. Here, you have no control, but you might have influence to one degree or another.
Level Three: Level three reality is your reality. This is your perception of life, of reality, from within your head, heart, and soul. Level three reality is where your subconscious and conscious mind collaborate or fight one another. This is where you can apply active conscious awareness — i.e., mindfulness — to be who, what, where, how, and why you desire to be. This is where you have ALL of the control, since you’re the only one who can think, feel, intend, and act for you.
The only level of reality where you can exert control is Level Three. You. Yourself. That’s it. You have ZERO control of the abstract world around you, and maybe influence, but no control of the world immediately outside of yourself.
Levels one and two of reality are the most in-your-face. However, you can’t do jack shit about them (save voting in elections, attending protests, boycotting awful businesses, and the like).
You’re allowed moments of good in your personal reality/life
The bad that comes from these will impact you, but how much is yours to choose.
There’s no denying things are insane out there. You might be directly impacted by them if you lost a job, certain benefits, or someone you cared about. People are hurting and being harmed in this insanity.
However, good things also happen. New friendships and relationships are starting. Better jobs are found. New homes are moved into. Pets are adopted. That show you’ve waited a year or more to see airs.
It all counts. But more than that, you’re allowed moments of good even during all this bad. Especially now. Because nobody lives a reality of all bad, all the time. At least, you can choose not to.
Some people see nothing but doom and gloom, terror and horror, and endless bad. That’s probably one reason depression leads people to take their own lives, even if they’re celebrities. However, you need nobody’s permission to have moments of good. It’s not selfish, bad, or wrong.
Your reality, level three, is the only one you can control. Ergo, you can live a good life and have moments of good happen even when shit’s going down on levels one and two of life/reality.
This is where mindfulness helps.
Mindfulness for moments of good
The only person in your head, heart, and soul, is you. Nobody else can be you. There’s nobody else thinking your thoughts, feeling your feelings, intending your intentions, choosing your positive or negative approach, or doing what you do. Only you can control that.
Even in the middle of all this bad, you might be having many moments of good. And that’s okay. Know why? Because when you have moments of good, you are more present and mindful. From there, you’re more empowered. When you’re more empowered, you can influence others to choose/find their empowerment.
The power to change the world is in you. It starts when you make choices and decisions for your life experience. Hence, accepting and relishing in moments of good, even in these bad times, is something you’re worthy and deserving of.
When you choose to be mindful and consciously aware of your personal reality, you become empowered. Use that to accept, find, and/or create moments of good where you can to build more and greater empowerment.
Do you see how moments of good amid the bad are something you have every right to?
This is the seventh-hundred-eleventh (711) exploration of my Pathwalking philosophy. These weekly essays are my ideas for – and experiences with – applying mindfulness and positivity to walk along a chosen path of life to consciously create reality.
I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world and empower as many people as I can with conscious reality creation.
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