In our world the drive to be successful has taken precedent over the urge to be joyful.

An average adult will get up in the morning with a list of the things he or she must accomplish.  There is a commitment to go to work, to get the children to school, to finish the assignment and so on.  There is the obligation to, dressed in a suitable manner, arrive at work at the pre-ordained hour and then the need to deal with co-workers, bosses and employees.

As the average day and week progress this pressure invariably rises; more deadlines, obligations, social functions and crises to be dealt with, all before an elusive weekend when there will be the hope of release.  In our society the popular way is to party, take our escape in some form of oblivion.  Finding relief through physical self inflicted abuse?

Does this sound something like your week?  Would you like to change it?  It is possible.   It is also very unlikely that an average person will change a situation like this before a crisis arises.  If you are not one of these people you are a rare blessing to an otherwise overstressed society and are one of the more fortunate who knows all the blessings they have to count.

Of course you could possibly be on the other end of the spectrum.  You might be one of the many casualties of a society gone ‘ballistic’, recovering from one of any number of stress related ailments, the bottom line of all disease.  In your case you are probably looking for ways to find healthy balance in your life.

So my purpose here is not to point out the problems of our society, most of us are all too aware of the problems, in fact that is exactly the problem.  What I want to do is help people find the solution.    

The solution, the golden egg, is very simply a new perspective.  As I alluded to earlier all disease, discomfort and dissatisfaction is a result of stress, all of it.  So the answer to our problems is to de-stress ourselves and the way to do that is to change our attitude; our perspective.  You can change your problems (work, relationship, neighbourhood) but that will not solve your problems, it will only postpone them because ultimately wherever you go you will be sure to find your attitudes there as well.

So if the solution is a changed attitude how do you begin to do that?  The very first step is to begin to pay attention to how you feel, to how you really feel.  Until we can begin to do that there is no possibility of creating change.  All creation even the creation of change is a conscious process based on feelings, intentions and actions.  So we must become imminently aware of our feelings and then choose ways to change those feelings.