4 Ingredients for Rising Above Circumstances

My month-long ‘staycation’ in Manhattan has come to an end.  Getting back into my car to start driving around for every little errand is not an exciting prospect after walking to Barnes and Noble at 10 PM to pick up a book on hold or going out to Coffee Bean for an iced berry tea at 11 and leisurely walking back to our apartment along the streets of beautiful brownstone houses.  My 7 AM walk to the local JCC for their daily free meditation class was an early morning treat.   The pulsating energy of the city is quite appealing after 30 years of suburb living.  But I’m sure I will pretty quickly re-acclimate to being back home.

I’ve been away from the blogging world for this time period.   And so I now start up again with the perfect timing of my guest blog post on the wonderful Tiny Buddha website.   A great entree into my blogging again.  I invite you over to Tiny Buddha to read, How to Rise Above Difficult Circumstances and Be Happy.  Start here and then continue there.

 

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ~Viktor Frankl

I first got wind of this transformative concept when I was a teenager reading Man’s Search for Meaning.

It has played beautifully into what has become my life theme: how people transcend their adversities. I’ve forever been inspired by how (some) people can go through so much and yet be able to rise above and live well. I call it living well despite…

It seems to boil down to something beyond circumstance and external situations. Because, as we all know, there are so many people who have gone through terrible situations and yet manage to be upbeat and strong, and push forward in their lives; and yet others who sink into perpetual disappointment and despair. It seems to be a natural tendency to go one way or the other.

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Thanks for being here.  Would love to read some of your thoughts in the Comment section here or there.  And share the piece too.  Thanks.