Reclaiming Your Mind

It can feel so unfair that some people seem to float through life with little effort and get everything, yet others struggle constantly and no matter how hard they work, their life never gets any better. It’s struggle, struggle, struggle day-in-day-out. Is it that some of us are just unlucky, or were some of us were just meant for a small life or a life of suffering? Or is there more to it?

I am a 55 year old woman who once had a panic attack on a family/kiddie monorail ride at adventure world in Perth Australia. My children are now fully grown, one with a baby of their own, and I realised that I have spent my life in fear, not doing the things I want to do, not enjoying life the way it should be enjoyed, not wanting to spend the rest of my life the same I decided to do something about it. Face the fear and the fear falls away, isn’t that what they say?  

My whole conscious journey with Positive Thinking started with a Self-Help Book. I was introduced to it by two relative strangers in a country I had only just relocated to. The fact that these two events happened so closely seems to be more than just a coincidence and more like serendipity, this felt like it was a journey I was meant to take and with each step it became clearer.

In fact, we can go back way before Shakespeare who was born back in 1564, there are plenty of writings from the likes of Socrates 470-399BCE