Everything happens for us. Not to us.

“We have forgotten in those dark moments that everything happens FOR us instead of TO us. We have forgotten that the only things holding us back in life is not our circumstances, but our beliefs about our circumstances. And when we change the beliefs and take constant and persistent action towards them - we change our lives for GOOD!” Mastin Kipp, the Daily Love

I saw this line the other day in Mastin Kipp’s Blog, The Daily Love, and I just had to steal it because it resonated so much with me. Right now I am involved in several situations where people are being asked to change their beliefs about the circumstances they find themselves in. And it is like beating my head up against the wall. Because everyone is blaming everyone else for the circumstances they are in rather than admitting we all played a part in where we are right now. And instead of blaming, we need to reflect internally and act rather than point fingers at others.

I feel as if many of us have become immune to our own internal voices and instead take great comfort in blaming everyone else for the circumstances we find ourselves in.

If only there was a way that I could have this quote become our internal mantra. Something that whenever I meet someone who believes it is someone outside of them that is causing them the most angst, I could trigger them to remember they have the power to change. To remind them to look inside themselves. To listen to that voice that always knows.  If only I could then we would see a significant shift in mindset and intention and as a result a shift in situations we thought were impossible to change.

If every one of us could wake up in the morning with continuous thoughts of joy, gratitude and abundance rather than scarcity, sadness and fear, we would see there is so much good in our lives. Even on our darkest days, we would see life offers us so much but we are so busy stumbling in the dark that we can’t and won’t see the light.

And we don’t accept that everything no matter how bad that happens in our lives, as Mastin so eloquently stated, happens for us not to us. By that he is saying, and I concur, that when something happens, it happens to help us to grow. To learn. To understand our place in this world. To make us stronger. To make us more compassionate. To be what we were sent here to be.

And sometimes what happens brings us to our knees and in some cases flat out on the ground but when these situations occur, if we take the time to learn from them, we will see they were sent to us to help us rise again. To be even better than we were before.  We will see the gift of even our darkest days when we accept the ups and downs of life. Because we will learn that no matter what circumstances we may find ourselves in, those circumstances were delivered to us especially to free us from the shackles of our own minds.

Remembering always everything that happens in our lives, happens for us and not to us. Shifting our mindset from blaming others to owning every circumstance, situation and encounter as gifts from the Universe to help us to be who we were sent here to be. Imagine what our lives would be like then....