You are the Creator of your Destiny

New experience gives us the chance to observe how open we are to life. We may claim that we are very open, only to find that we are holding on tightly to our old habits and opinions of how things should be done. Alas, when we move to a new place or start a new job, life tells us otherwise. We may think that we are friendly, loving and positive, but then we turn out to be unfriendly, hateful, and negative when things don’t meet our expectation. All these new experiences give us the opportunity to realize how closed-minded we still can be. Life is there to show us how to discover the mind-patterns that still run us. There is a reason that we are thrown in these new situations because we haven’t learned our lessons yet.

I have observed in myself that I tend to be quite negative whenever I move to a new place.  There is always something that doesn't quite meets my expectation: the house is too old, the school doesn't communicate as well as the previous did, the air quality is not as good as in the previous neighborhood, the food is not quite as good. Instead of telling others nicely about my needs and expectations, I find myself acting rude and doubting nearly everyone I encounter. I am a Tao traveler, yet I radiate the energy of pain.

 Whenever I am caught in a negative energy field, I actually create a vicious cycle around me, which in turn attracts more negative feed-back loops. Luckily, mindfulness always liberates me from these negatives cycles and allows me to work on creating a positive experience for myself and the people who are in my life.

We live in a responsive world.  Our thoughts and actions interact with the environment we operate in. Whenever we have a loving, creative, and positive attitude towards the people and environment we are interacting with, they receive this energy and respond to us in kind; on the opposite side, whenever, we lose our trust, being destructive rather than creative, we experience hell.

What do you want to experience in your life?  Be creative!  You decide what environment you want to operate in and you will attract the people in your life who are happy to play with you. You are the creator of your destiny so please use your creative powers well.

By Su Zhen