‘Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it’ - The Powerful Meaning of This Common Phrase.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it’ - The Powerful Meaning of This Common Phrase.
January 22, 2017
Life is a sequence of events, which continue to play out in front of us from a moment that we are born to when to our deathbeds. Throughout the sequence of our lives, we experience a magnitude of events, both positive and negative throughout our lives, which can either test, change or reward us. Yet according to this saying, all of that is only the 10% of what is actually going on. In fact, it is our reactions and how we deal and interpret events in our lives, it is what truly counts. Since when something happens, it is only on a physical level. It is how we think and interpret it, and how that makes us think is what causes us to experience emotion form that. Either a lot of intense emotion or very little, that is all still a reaction. In fact those positive, negative and testing things that happen around us, we are the ones labeling and reacting to it by calling it those words. Which effects, our thoughts and offer emotions we may have. In today’s clarity blog, we are going to be creating deep meaning out of this phrase. Recognizing why this phrase is so important and discovering the power of interpretation.
After experiencing hardship, we tend to interpret it and try our hardest to understand what took place, why and why you. Even if we do not know why, and we are a victim to circumstance. The thinking mind does not like to be out of the knowhow. We want to understand it and calculate it so it does not happen again. That is what we do. We avoid hardships and suffering. In addition, our reaction is how we go about doing that. It is easy to choice to act out and, further put yourself into a negative state. In addition, that, sudden shift of negativity and self – destruction will only attract more of the same. Whereas If you choice to optimistic, meditate and accept what happened. No longer, fight and rest it and not stress on the details over it. As well as work, ensure a better future by taking actions based on happiness and fulfillment. Then of course, you will attract thoughts that are more positive and offer positive actions to take place. For example, being the victim to gun violence, the mind tries to make sense of what’s taken place and find ways to cope. The initial reaction of running or finding help. We have to think and act in the best way, our emotions may want some thoughts and us to get revenge or worse. Yet it is the choice that makes the difference.
Think of the word REACTION. It begins with ‘re’, rethinking and re- examining what has taken place. The there is ‘Act’ or ‘action’, how we take those thoughts and act upon them. Think of it like a chemical reaction, elements individually changing itself to transform into something different. That is what 90% of our life is made up of; it is a sequence of thought and action that makes the different. Our own free will and individual choices. There is so, much power in this process, since it dictates what happens next and how we adapt. According to this saying, we are not a victim, it is up to us to make our own decisions and make the most out of everything that takes place around us. There is no excuse, we cannot just say that we are a victim to something, that we were powerless and had no offer choice than to behave carelessly. In addition, that truth, that realization feels like the truth. Because it is on one level, we are our thoughts and our reactions. And we are not what happens to us.
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