:: Lis Cashin ::

When we learn how to consciously and deliberately create the lives that we really want to live, we are living our lives “on purpose”. Living life in this way is challenging and also incredibly rewarding. Choosing how you live your life is the greatest gift you can give to yourself.

I believe that a lot of the problems are caused by people not understanding who they really are and what they really want.

The LIVE IT! system has been devised to enable people to become clearer on both of these issues and from understanding and being who they really are, they naturally want to want to make a positive contribution to the world around them.

When I was growing up, I felt as though I was living in a glass box with the lid shut tight and the rest of the world was on the outside. No matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t open the lid – and believe me I tried really hard for many years. The more I pushed, the more the lid got tighter and tighter and tighter, until in the end, through absolute exhaustion, I gave up trying. And that is when my life really started to change.

There is a natural flow to life, like the flow of a river which eventually flows out to sea. The easy way to live is to get a comfortable boat and to float downstream, with the river’s natural current.

What a lot of people do however, is to find the smallest, most uncomfortable boat possible and try to paddle upstream against the natural flow and still expect to end up flowing out to sea (when they are pushing in completely the wrong direction). Have you ever tried to swim against the tide? No wonder some people feel exhausted a lot of the time!

When we feel like we are continually pushing and struggling in life (life just seems hard) it is because we are trying to swim against the current. If we let go, give up trying and just allow ourselves to be in the present moment, then we get into the flow of life and everything appears much easier than before.

I was always searching for happiness outside of myself. I wanted other people to provide it for me, which of course they could never do. To me, the world just seemed like a cold, hard, scary place to be. I expected pain and I got it. I expected things to turn out badly, and they did. My life was a self-perpetuating, self-fulfilling prophecy.

The amazing thing has been that as I have healed the struggle within myself, I now naturally want to give to others and to help them to heal the struggle within them selves.

In letting go of who I thought I was and in understanding who I really am, I feel a sense of inner peace that I never knew was possible before.

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