“It is interesting to see how our lives have turned around. What was once a relatively peaceful existence is now a more upbeat and even at times an impossible life.
“We feel all of us to be striving at such a pace that it is almost impossible to keep up with ourselves.
“We pretend we are happy most of the time, when the true reality is that we are all worn out and in much need of comfort and mild relief.
“We often take it for granted that our health will stand up to the pace, almost as if we are invincible in one form or another, never ever thinking of the impossible strain we each put upon ourselves.
“We have failed to allow ourselves to have quality in our lives and always expect quantity. Not until a breakdown of sorts appears do we then start to take stock of what is really important and then we finally realise we are human and not robotic and we are vulnerable to much stress and anxiety – most of which is self inflicted.
“Until we learn to say, “No” and begin to moderate our lives and our activity, will we ever be able to survive to any kind of true age?
“So many young people today are run ragged with exhaustion, juggling a dozen things in the air all at the same time until they become dizzy and disoriented.
“Bad temper and irritability is often witnessed by those close to them and it is rather taken as the norm these days.
“Until we begin to see that quality in our lives is our saving grace and natural fulfilment for our minds and bodies, we will continue to make slaves of ourselves with never ending process.
“Quality time for ourselves, for those in our family and for close friends, is what is required for the success of ourselves.
“Until we reshape our lives and put ourselves back on a better footing then we will continue to damage ourselves and those around us.
“The pace of life, the rat race, is for many a life they only know. They are perhaps brought up in a household where everybody was running around all the time with little time to spend with their offspring.
“There are ways to turn our lives around, but only when we choose to see sense and make a conscience effort.
“I appreciate with the Credit Crunch and where jobs are at a premium and added pressure is put on the individual to perform, but at what cost to them personally?
“It is all about trust in the end. Trust in a Higher Power to provide a solution to our problems.
“We never seem to ask. We go along blindly day by day at crucifying speed just to get through another day until we are finally broken and of no use to neither man nor beast.
“Then when we are on exhaustion level, so great we can no longer function, does the solution to our problems become noticed.
“We actually begin to see a way out. A positive change in direction is actually shown to us and, by taking this decision, quality of life is restored. It is fear that keeps us prisoners on the treadmill of life.
“We never think that any kind of help is out there for us. We seem to think we must shoulder the entire burden of our lives onto our own shoulders all the time.
“The Higher Power of ‘God’ is all around us. We just need to recognise it and ask for help. Help then presents itself. Not necessarily in the way we want it, but always in a way that is best for us.
“We cannot always know what is best for us. We only think we know, because our tiny minds only are able to see a short way ahead. We are not aware of the bigger picture and so, when the help comes in, it is for our benefit with the long term view in place.
“It is only then with hindsight that can we see just how well it has suited us and how in fact we are so well provided for.
“So until we begin to realise that we can all have quality of life and not quantity, which only breaks us in the end. We must ask and expect the better way to be shown to us, which of course it always is.
“Never doubt that the Higher Intelligence constantly looks after us and, out of much mayhem and sometimes disaster, the better way is shown.
“You only need to take up the directive and peace again is restored to your hearts and minds.”
Jenny Ayers
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