Why It’s a Challenge To Live In a Place of Contentment

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Feel Good Project Day 8

A HUGE part of feeling good-and NOT feeling good-seem to be greatly affected by my level of contentment it seems.

Very interesting.

I have taken notice this week of the times I feel my best and the times I feel my worst. I have always known that stress is a giant factor in how a person feels-and I am one who is affected directly by this mental and physical predator.

However, I am realizing today for the first time just HOW much rests on the feeling of content or discontent I feel about my life, both on a daily basis as well as a seasonal basis.

It was just ABSURD how much noise was swirling around us today-from the minute we woke up to up until right now (about 10pm), and it seriously felt like some of the life got sucked right out of me.

Some call it chi, others call it prana (or life force energy), but no mater what it is called, I sure know when it is slipping away from me, as this depletion turns me into a raging lunatic.

I love people. I really do. I LOVE them.

However, I know when both Justin and I have had enough, we begin to see the world as a place that is out to get us, ruin our lives and make us feel as if we were just bulldozed by a giant tractor.

Okay, that is a bit dramatic, but that is how today felt. Constant gardening noise all around us with leaf blowers and such, remodeling on the home next door (which has been going on over a year and a half now), drills, saws, people screaming and skateboarding down the street, loud fireworks, motorcycles and trash trucks-this pretty much sums up the kind of constant noise we was exposed to today.

It was an empath’s worst nightmare.

We both found it extremely difficult to stay positive. I have to say, given the situation, we usually do a pretty good job at seeing the bright side of things, but today was not such a day.

I felt my body react inside to this anger I felt. It was a day where my digestion started off pretty decent and slowly decreased as the day panned out. The times that my senses were the most heightened was the time that I would start to have twinges of discomfort or pain in my belly, liver or pancreas.

I had to stop and ask myself a few times during the day-what is it that I am so discontent with? Is it the noise around me and lack of any sort of peace and quiet? Is it the tiny place we live that we wish had more room? Is it that I am angry about not being able to quit my salon job sooner than I want to?

Just WHAT is it that I am so discontent with anyway?

I believe it is a bit of all the above all muddled together-at least that’s what I came up with today.

I get bummed on myself for having a terrible attitude at times, but judging myself does not help my case either.

Upon reflecting back over the day’s events a bit earlier, I heard a voice whisper to me “you need to learn to be content in a trailer OR a palace.”

Interesting.

Picking that apart, I realized the truth it held for me. It shouldn’t be about any of these outside circumstances-whether it be loud living situations, or lacking money to pay the bills. WHATEVER the issue at hand may be, that sentence pretty much summed up what I needed to hear today, in order to put my body back into relaxed mode and start to feel much better.

Contentment, to me, really does mean learning to be at peace with everything and every situation in life, no matter if I am dirt poor or rich as a king. Contentment does not come to people who don’t have hardship or struggles any more than to people who do.

Contentment happens within.

MY lesson is to learn to be content in EVERY season and stage of life, to suck the marrow from it, even when I want to scream sometimes.

I strive to be a person who has walked in many different shoes to be able to see contentment from others’ perspectives.

To be content in a trailer OR a palace is the goal. I find that to be a challenge to say the least, but the more I can let go and surrender attachments to particular outcomes , the faster my attitude about life in general changes.

Today, feeling good was all about recognizing what was bugging me, and trying to make peace with it, as I couldn’t make it just go away.

It is valuable to recognize and and know that this is part of the journey to feeling good.

FEEL GOOD MOMENT OF THE DAY: Amongst all the chaos, noise and traffic around our home today, they planted a beautiful tree right outside our kitchen window that reminds me of the peace I crave. Sometimes it’s the simple things in life…