Life Is Not What Happens To You

Life is not the stuff that happens to you.

In Science of Mind, we say life happens through you. Well, once you get over feeling like a victim, which just means feeling like you are at the effect rather than the cause of the stuff in your life.

But whether it happens to you, through you, that still isn't life.

You are life. Stuff happens. Life is happening AS you.

Huh?

Take a deep breath. Let it go.
Close your eyes. Feel your toes without wiggling them. How do you know where your toes are?

There's an inner energy body inside your body that tells you where you are in space. Call it your autonomic nervous system, call it your energy body, call it your awareness. Whatever you call it, there is something that knows where you are in space, where your hands and feet are. It knows THAT you are, that you exist. That's feeling life.

So life isn't the stuff that happens.

The stuff that happens is like the clouds in the sky. You are the sky.

When we lose something important - a loved one, a job, a home - it feels more like a thunderstorm. But as we realize with time and experience, that feeling will pass.

So the more we can be like the sky, the more room there is in our experience of life to allow those
clouds to roll through, knowing that they are clouds, and you are the sky. The ever-present, unchanging sky in which clouds appear and disappear.

A great way to practice this is meditation. There are lots of ways to meditate, and lots of classes and resources on the subject. Here's one great book on meditation.

That's a much nicer way to live.

That's life.