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Step 25: “All pain comes to cause growth”
The 88 rungs of happy people
In this chapter of “The 88 Steps of Happy People” I explain that when you see each event as a teacher, you take each setback as a gift
ATTENTION: DANGER. This Rung is for people whose Inner Success Belt is 7 and up. If you estimate that your Belt is less than 6, you may not understand it when reading it and it disturbs you, and may even lead you to feel rejection. If that’s the case, this is what’s going to happen. You will read it again in a year, or two, or ten, when life has given you experiences that you have translated into growth and that have raised your inner height, and surprisingly, everything that is written here will have made sense. The interesting thing is that the text will be … exactly the same as you are reading today. Therefore the text will not have changed. The one who has changed will have been you.
The world thinks this way. Something happens to you that you consider good and of course you should… give thanks. Something happens to you that you consider bad and of course you should … freak out. Well, this Step defends just the opposite. Give thanks not only for what you like best, but also for what you like least. They are… the other graces.
– Anxo, are you telling me that if something hard happens to me, on top of that I have to thank it?
Yes, but remember that you can only measure up to your inner Belt. If you are not in a high Belt at the moment, perhaps you can expect of yourself to learn to be grateful for things that are not too hard, such as a cold, but not as challenging as a traffic accident, although the day that you can, will always and when you continue to evolve.
– Anxo, what is the point of thanking for something that is unpleasant?
The point is that every event that you call unpleasant (“unpleasant” with the limited knowledge you have today) brings with it a lesson that is greater than the event itself. There are two ways to live life. One is classifying each event as good or bad, being the good what produces happiness and the bad what produces suffering. The other is to live accepting that everything brings you gratitude. The paradox is that the first leads to suffering, and the second to happiness. When you live judging everything as positive or negative, you live longing (insanely) for the good to happen and fearing (insanely) the arrival of the bad. When you live from gratitude, you put aside judgment and enter a state of acceptance, coming to understand something impossible to understand for the masses, but of incalculable value: all pain comes to cause growth.
Absolutely EVERY challenge in life comes with a learning pill. Depending on how big the challenge, that pill can weigh a gram or a ton. If you fight it with all your might from rejection, it will turn into a ton of weight that crushes you. If you accept it out of gratitude, it will turn into a ton of growth that propels you.
Luciana, a workaholic lawyer, suffers a motorcycle accident. He spends his entire stay in the hospital cursing his accident. Thanks to him, she learns to stop the suicidal rhythm of work that she was carrying out. A year later, he realizes that this saved his life, and discovers … the other graces. Ignacio, a wealthy businessman with the need for nothing to escape his control, suffers from an illness that leaves him bedridden for months. At first he rebels against what happens to him, just like an enraged child. The more you rebel, the more your pill’s ton of weight suffers. Little by little he begins to recognize that the disease has been his best instructor, teaching him how much he needed humility, patience, learning to let go of control, getting closer to his loved ones and giving more time to what he has greater. importance. Finally he gets to thank him, thus giving … the other thanks.
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