When we find ourselves in situations we cannot control the normal reaction is to want to leave that environment as soon as possible.
Now imagine that environment was your own body and the hassles were a chronic illness and several disabilities.
Leaving your body is not the focus of this article, but developing conscious coping mechanisms is what I want to share.
If you can not change the challenge you face, you can control the mind-set that deals with those hassles.
 We have the power to create habits that sustain a perspective that looks beyond discomfort and pain.
Now if that is possible, then it is possible to look beyond your greatest challenge regardless of what it is.
 In the same way a karate expert focuses through the brick and breaks it, we can focus beyond our challenges and accomplish our goals.
When you are free from the limitations created by your own mind, you are free to have any goal you want.
Then once you realize your goal, you focus beyond any limitations.
Of course I feel you may heal better with that focus, but that focus may not heal you.
This is where you really realize the power of your beyond thought reality.
There is no perception of pain there.
In that silence you find simple love and a connection to the Wisdom of your Body.
It is natural to follow your thoughts and body sensations to experience pain and discomfort.
When you surrender to the flow of your breath, you will be aware of it.
As your breath takes you beyond thoughts into an inner peace, your breath returns you to the physical reality where the pain is.
Conscious breathing takes you beyond the mind-made reality into love and returns you to the physical reality with a heart full of love.
It is from that perspective you can deal with any challenge; even a painful situation you can not control.
Then if you have a condition the medical community can partially cure; you respond to their treatments with the Wisdom of your Body instead of a frustrated mind.
When a patient plays an active role like that, not only does his body respond better...
his mind creates less resistance and a deeper quality emerges.
That is when the quality of life doesn't depend on the health of the Body, it depends on your focus and that is something everybody can control.
Are you willing to trust the Wisdom of your Body to that extent? The word "believe" in Latin comes from "to allow".
If you believe what I shared to be true...
you have to allow it to manifest.
© Marc Lerner and Life Skills 2009