Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Calm In the Middle of Disarray

By Hal Neff


On the road of life, many individuals find themselves in the midst of confusion trying just to deal with life. Frequently people just go from crisis to crisis whether it is with health or monetary and never seem get on top of their problems. They let their external situations determine all areas of their life.

However, life is more than your challenge. It's more than the total of all the negative things that might confront you. If you are not personally confronting an imminent crisis in your life, you definitely know of people in your circle who are. Life can be full of a long list of issues and mayhem often appears inescapable.

In spite of all the difficulties, it is important to get a grip on how to stay relaxed since not finding that calm in the middle of the storm can have a big impact in your life in terms of your own psychological and physical health. So what exactly could you do to reduce the effects of the "storms" which are bound to be everywhere.

When you turn on the News today the one thing you will discover is bad news. Bad news sells, yet hearing the bad news does very little to better anybody's life. It might be a great deal better to do some positive psychological growth first thing each morning rather than taking that newspaper to see who was shot, killed or maimed.

Preventing placing this negative pictures in your mind and replacing positive thoughts and images can give you a completely different viewpoint on life. Begin by creating an optimistic inner voice that can help you become "others" centered rather than self absorbed. This on its own can transform your whole outlook on life. It's this that will help you generate a calm demeanor even if you might find yourself in the middle of a storm personally.

The Seventeenth Century clergyman, Matthew Henry said, "After the storm comes the calm". Have you ever noticed how calm it can be after a violent storm? That can also be true in the middle of the eye of a storm. I personally recall being in the midst of a violent tropical storm just north of the equator in Africa. It was a huge tropical thunderstorm which ripped roofs of many of the houses. Yet, as the eye of the storm shifted directly over where I was, it was incredibly calm. The truth is there was a "stillness" in the air that I never have experienced since. It is that kind of calm that we need to get into our lives.

To obtain this kind of calm requires you to be vigilant about the insight that goes into your thoughts. It's best to stay away from as much of the negative around you as possible. If your input is extremely good, you'll probably have a greater ability to stay calm in spite of the storm. This would not only help you in keeping better health physically but it will also help you in your own psychological health giving you a genuine clarity of mind.

In these stressful times, life can apparently bring a good deal of confusion. Developing a calm mind will be what helps you make it through the storm.




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