I heard a great piece of wisdom recently: “Life gives us situations — we add the anguish.”  If you think about it, this is true.  It is sort of like in the movie Forrest Gump, when he says “Life is like a box of chocolates.  You never know what you are going to get.”  Only he fails to add “Life is like a box of chocolates.  You never know what you are going to get.  Some chocolates are going to be sweet and delicious, decadent and delightful.  Other chocolates are going to be bitter, disgusting, nauseating, and otherwise repugnant.  The sweet ones you will want more of.  You will want the taste and flavor to dance in your mouth endlessly.  The bitter ones you will want to spit out, discard, and wish you never tasted them to begin with.”  I think this would be quite an accurate description of life.

Bottom line, there are a number of situations that we must go through in life, some pleasant, some downright unpleasant.  The question is, how can you enjoy the pleasant without clinging and grasping, and how can you navigate the unpleasant without adding anguish?  How can you cultivate equanimity? 

Now equanimity does not mean you don’t experience the emotions that come with life.  It does not mean that you become a robot, immune to the natural human reactions.  When something pleasant comes your way, it is natural to feel joyful.  And when the unpleasant knocks at your door, you may feel frightened, petrified, sad, miserable.  A panoply of emotions are possible.

Cultivating equanimity means that you are able to expand your awareness, that you are able to have a larger perspective.  You begin to see through your own experience that life presents both the pleasurable and the painful.  Both come and go.  Both are a required part of human life.

As you begin to see this, you can begin to create less anguish when you are going through difficult or challenging times.  Before you have this increased awareness, it is easy to feel like difficult times will last forever.  Do you recall going through a painful or unpleasant time and being convinced that it would never end?  Even if it is not fully conscious, this is the outlook that many of us have.

As you begin to increase your awareness, as you begin to cultivate equanimity, you are able to take life in stride a little bit more.  As you realize that everything does in fact come and go, that nothing lasts forever, you are able to enjoy the pleasant without grasping, and you are able to navigate the painful without letting it derail you.  You are able to ride the waves of life without thinking that each time a wave crashes the world is over.  You are able to more easily ride the ups and downs that are part of every human life. 

Are you willing to expand your awareness, cultivate equanimity, and discover what is possible?  Check out the upcoming tele-class entitled Dancing in the Rain, Standing in the Sun – Cultivating Equanimity.

For many, challenging life circumstances present challenging emotions, which can often translate into self-destructive tendencies.  If you have struggled with negative body obsession and disordered eating, chances are you have some self-destructive tendencies that may show up when life presents difficulties.

So then, how do we navigate life’s storms with equanimity?

Join me for November's Tele-class and learn how to not be overwhelmed by your emotions, as you discover how to cultivate equanimity in the face of life’s many ups and downs.

“Dancing in the Rain, Standing in the Sun – Cultivating Equanimity”

Date: Wednesday, November 3rd
Time: 6pm PDT / 9 pm EDT

In this upcoming Tele-class you will discover:

	How we can prevent ourselves from being tossed and turned by our emotions, making decisions that we later regret
	How we can navigate the ups and downs of life without being swept away and washed away
	How we can cultivate equanimity in the face of both pleasure and pain

Join me for the November 3rd Tele-class Cultivating Equanimity.
Click here for details and to register today.

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