Allowing what is.
“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be”. Wayne W. Dyer
Probably one of my biggest difficulties, which unfortunately (or fortunately) impacts my life on all levels.
I have such a hard time just accepting what is. To surrender to the present moment, which more often than not, doesn’t look and feel exactly how I would choose for it to look and feel like, instead of trying to constantly control the uncontrollable ! It’s become a sort of reflex with time, with the unpleasant surprises and accumulated moments that have left me believing I would be submerged and overwhelmed by life’s ups and downs, by the waves that I don’t see coming. As soon as a situation knocks up against me, or even just grazes me in a way that leaves me ever so slightly rattled, my first reaction is often one of contraction instead of expansion, of backing off instead of leaning in, of avoidance and running away instead of facing up to whatever is being presented.
I have to work at this every single day, and each time that I curb my first automatic response, each time that I allow myself the freedom to choose differently, to accept whatever is being presented to me in the here and now, (that which already exists anyways whether I like it not), well with each of these times I get a little closer to overturning my instinctive reflex of shunning from life’s calls forward. Every time I make a different choice, I’m ushered into an ample promise of what’s possible, of stretching who I thought I was, of reaching edges of my experience I previously couldn’t have dreamed of being capable of reaching!
Have you ever thought of everything that is completely out of our control ? I have… a lot ! And surprise, surprise, there’s a whole bunch of stuff you and I have absolutely no control over, most things in fact ! But the lure of control remains so eloquent 
The difference today is that I’m no longer willing to trade in my peace of mind for an unquenchable desire, an unattainable goal of bending reality to fit my pretty limited view of what would be my ideal. And deep down, (way way deep sometimes), I am glad it’s not all up to me ! I’m glad to be slowly letting go of my attachment to my version of this story, in exchange for a grander tale, filled with adventure and consciousness-opening revelations, that pull me onto the stage of my life.
Knowing in my heart of hearts that there’s so much love infused in the design of life, that whatever is being presented to me is always being offered with the very best of intentions and that all that is presented is meant for my highest good, surely helps me retrain myself to embrace this shift in perspective quite a bit 
Wishing you an amazing day !