It is the Way it is

Why is peace of mind such a fickle state?  Why do you have so many things to get anxious about? Is it because life can be hard and events and outcomes can be beyond your control despite your best efforts? Do you worry about your health, your work and your finances? Do you always ask yourself whether your loved ones will turn out to be healthy and happy?

Whenever we try to manifest something which is beyond our control, we feel powerless and anxious. We lose trust in our environment, we start working on our own and feel alienated and lonely in the process. The harder we run, the more we struggle, the more dangerous and hostile we perceive our world to be. Ironically, that is how powerful we are. Whatever state we perceive to be in will manifest itself. Perceive your environment as hostile and it will be. Anticipate a protective and a loving world and you will create that too.

So what can you do to leave this fear-mongering mind castle and step into the real world instead? Open up to the world despite your perceived dangers. Start experiencing what is rather than thinking all the time about what could be. If your attitude in fact creates your life experience, be aware of what is going in your head. While you can't overwrite your fears, you can always anchor yourself in the present moment and that way you will be way to busy to get distracted by your fears and concerns.

Just observe, perhaps the people you think conspire against you in fact push you in a new direction that really works for you. Perhaps that illness that bothers you sets you up for an important life change. And when your daughter flunks college she may in fact find that career that really works for her. Reality is the way it is. Taoism is the understanding that the Way is working hard to make you the person you are born to be. Just try our  hypothesis and see for yourself how much more loving the "real" world is than the castle of your mind. The Tao is  taking good care of you and everything can be just perfect as is unless you stand in the Way.

By Christian and Su Zhen