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Life rarely follows a plan and there’s nothing much, we can do about it. Life-altering events force us into a personal reckoning, challenging what we know about ourselves and triggering a period of instability. Everyone in life faces a crisis. Crises often sap our energy and lead us to isolate ourselves. What we call a “Life Crisis” and its intensity is a person’s limit to a psychological response to major life-changing events. A crisis is a perception or experience of an event or situation as an intolerable difficulty that exceeds the person’s current resources and resolving mechanisms. A crisis presents an obstacle, trauma, or threat. But it tests our potential and also offers an opportunity to elevate us to meet the challenges given by life. But generally, we become victims in these critical situations by taking decisions under pressure.
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The quick and hasty decisions probably won’t take us out of the situation. Rather it will slow down the natural recovery process. What we can do is regulate our reactions. Letting things go off because acceptance of what we can’t change will help calm our minds. The fact is that the more time our body and mind spend in a state of stress, the more it perpetuates fear and anxiety. Fear of failure will come along with individual decisions. We must avoid operating from a place of fear. It leads to dropping the faith and the normal behaviour with everyone will compound the situation. We can keep a sense of normalcy, by telling our brain, that although we may be passing through a tough time, most of the things in life are functioning as usual. Everybody wants to get out of a crisis as quickly as they get into it. In this situation, we need to be surrounded by people who are trustworthy and stand by us fully throughout the crisis with a conviction “This too, shall pass”.
The first fallout of the crisis is that, we immediately switch over and land into the complaining mode. We feel an absolute deficit of motivation. We feel devoid of life values, so long nurtured by us. Since the mind gets trapped in complexities, negativity gets triggered and we always remain unhappy without knowing the reason for it. We feel no attachment to our daily activities. Our minds get filled with self-doubts and start finding fault in everything from situations to persons and lose trust in almost the whole surrounding. Also, people start noticing a negative swing in their mood. In that situation, we don’t know what we want and also start feeling lonely. We start telling ourselves, “Life will resume only when things will get better”. But we never know when this situation will come to an end.
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Today, we have made ourselves dependent on so many external factors which are monitoring and governing our life. We have become more focused on our requirements and associated thoughts in place of being sensitive to the feelings of others. Since we have squeezed our outlook, we are dominated by anxiety, annoyance, and worry. Consequently, it demonstrates that peace and harmony have not yet found a place to live within us. We need to connect and understand the importance of our inner world. Impulses that still drive our actions will reveal a great deal about our inner world. It lacks human wisdom. The earlier we go back in evolution, we will find that the more impulse-driven we are. The animal kingdom is almost completely impulse driven. We are unaware that, “We can never survive the external storm unless we learn to manage the internal storm”.
Today, we are so busy looking for brief enjoyment of the outside world as it attracts us ceaselessly through the illusion of the mind. We also get mesmerized by the common consciousness of unfathomable greed, created and developed by a nexus of a few intelligent people. We have lost in the cobweb of fear and insecurity emanating in the process. We miss the inner symphony of life that is playing like a river all the time. Every minute, we rob ourselves of ever-lasting inner joy residing inside us. We have given up the finer things of life and invited consistent confusion, constant conflicts, and confirmed chaos.
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The choice should have been “TO LIVE IN THE MOMENT”. It does not mean that living in the moment is simply forgetting the past and the future. Living in the present moment means that we can integrate the experience of the past with the meticulous planning of the future. But we must not allow our consciousness to move away to a place of an illusion of fear of future consequences in case of any failure. Because the future is always unpredictable. Leaving the present moment and visiting only the past and future is creating an illusion and is the cause of all the stress we are living with. If we can apply living in the moment successfully, this single deep-rooted trait will be much better than the long and hardly acquired unlimited external knowledge. We can achieve it only, just by being quiet with us. It’s not the skill but rather the “SPIRIT TO LIVE” which only helps in fighting the moment of crisis.
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