If you have ever been to the doctor and had a prescription medication that required you to revisit the doctor, the you will understand the difference between responding and reacting.\u00a0 We have read about the power of words we use and how we control our thoughts.\u00a0 In life do you respond or react.\u00a0 When you take a medication and do the follow up appointment with a physician if the doctor says your body is responding that is a positive and have begun healing.\u00a0 If the doctor says, you are reacting to the medication that means you are having a negative result.
\nIn life we have a choice, as has been stated by so many, everything is a choice.\u00a0 Even the items that are not your choice in life require you to make a choice of how you will respond or react to the situation.\u00a0 If you go through life\u00a0 responding to the influences and pressures around you then you will have life dictated to you.\u00a0 Your choice is to place blame and give up control of your future.\u00a0 This is the path of least resistance that many find themselves on and since they do not take ownership for their actions, it feels hopeless.\u00a0 Depression and anxiety come from reacting to life.\u00a0 When we allow our situation to dictate our feelings and happiness we have chosen to react to life.
\nResponding to life is not easy.\u00a0 I think this is why so many of us struggle with responding versus reacting.\u00a0 You can also respond in some areas of life and react in others.\u00a0 This makes life even more challenging because if you see you are reacting to situations you may begin to give up hope in other areas of life as well.\u00a0 There are so many influences in life designed to make us grow.\u00a0 Our whole purpose in this mortal life is to be tested.\u00a0 If we do not understand this and then just react to life we shall fail indeed.
\nThere is hope and it is as simple as making the commitment to ourselves to respond to life and not let life control our feelings.\u00a0 Challenge your mind when you begin to worry or find that you are fearful.\u00a0 I like to talk with my children when they have a fear or insecurity.\u00a0 It is easy for me having already lived through the challenges they are facing to see the solution.\u00a0 Still with all my knowledge, it is their choice how they will respond.\u00a0 I have started talking with myself as I would give advice to my children.\u00a0 It helps me overcome silly obstacles and fears that I build up in my mind and never materialize.
\nDon\u2019t make a mountain our of a mole hill.\u00a0 Things are never as bad as they seem and never as good either.\u00a0 If we can learn to stay calm and remove emotion from making rush decisions life becomes more manageable.\u00a0 Chose to respond to a situation even when you do not feel like responding.\u00a0 We are surrounded by those that would love nothing more than to insure we are miserable like unto them.\u00a0 Be the light unto the world that helps others come out of the darkness.\u00a0 When we see the world around us crumbling, respond by being part of the unshakable foundation that others can rely on.\u00a0 Chose this day to be happen in the now.\u00a0 Do not wait for circumstances to decide you fate and happiness.\u00a0 Chose to be happy and make you destiny a reality.\u00a0 Remember it will not happen as you plan because we will be tested to see if we have the faith and true desire to respond to life versus react.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you have ever been to the doctor and had a prescription medication that required you to revisit the doctor, the you will understand the difference between responding and reacting.\u00a0 We have read about the power of words we use and how we control our thoughts.\u00a0 In life do you respond or react.\u00a0 When you …<\/p>\n