Stop chasing your dreams

By Ayda Page

December 2nd 2018 3 minutes read

Life can be BEAUTIFUL, if we stop chasing our dreams!!! Yes, you heard correct, stop chasing your dreams! Why?

Think about it this way: if you have a dream then you want make it happen, and during the process you’re most likely to forget right NOW, and you will miss the most important thing in your life, living!

We spend so much effort focusing on the future, thinking and worrying about it, missing sleep, even causing lasting damage to our health. Do you know that stress can actually make you really sick, but at the same time the relaxation response can reverse it?

Do you know what stress is? I 100% agree with the way that my favorite author, Dan Millman, defines stress:

“In life, stress happens when you resist... Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds. No matter what comes your way, if you take a rigid position, you experience pain.

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering.

Never oppose force with force. Instead, absorb it and use it... Yielding can overcome even a superior force.”

So you may now ask, does this mean that we should not have any dreams? Of course not! We should have dreams, however we are not our dreams so we can only really enjoy dreams that are not only about us. Because if we’re dreaming about ourself, no matter how much we dream we’ll always want a little more than what we have.

“The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.” — Sadhguru

Maybe you’re wondering now about how stressful your private life and your work are, and what you can do? First, think about what I mentioned before, that when we resist and not accept a situation, whatever the problem is, it will never help and actually will make things worse. Acceptance is the key to lower your stress and enable your to look for a solution. So we need to manage ourselves first. We need to learn how to control our emotions, body and mind. Rather than looking for outside solutions, just be quiet so that you can hear the answer within you. I promise that if you pay attention you will get the best solution for you!

Do you know how our body reacts, when we’re stressed? Stress causes hormone imbalance and dysfunction and metabolic abnormalities, and the hormone imbalances create fatigue. It causes imbalances in adrenal function too. And if you have too much cortisol at night, that will stop you from sleeping. These are just some of the negative effects of stress, I will go into more detail for my future articles.