And that’s when in times of darkness it’s the hope of a better future that keeps us going.
Yes, it would be great if we could control everything in life, but that’s not how life is. More often than not, we humans have a desire and a tendency to control. There was no helper, but neither was there an opponent to stop me, except for myself and my ongoing relationship with misery and hopelessness. I wrote about experiencing loss in my book Using the Power of Consciousness and of one of the powerful lessons I learned. When times of hopelessness feel overwhelming So allow the life giving energy of hope to uplift your spirits and shine a light to guide you through life’s ups and downs.
Why limit yourself in this way when within is a treasure trove full of hope and life and spirit. Especially thoughts and feelings that feel…well hopeless. Re-hashing the same old thoughts and feelings can only bring the same old results. Most likely you never found new answers to those old problems because by using the same old, worn-out thoughts you were limiting your ability to discover fresh possibilities. How many times in life have you searched in your mind for solutions to challenges, upsets or obstacles, going over and over the same information time and again, in a fruitless attempt to find something that you must have missed? My experience in the hospital where my husband was ill depended on those very things. The very quality of your life depends upon the quality of the thoughts and feelings you revisit in your days, weeks and years. In seeking to be more hopeful in life, it’s important to pay attention to how you view the world, your experiences in it and your feelings about it. How hopeful feelings impact the quality of your life It matters because without it we can’t spread our wings, and without spreading our wings we can’t fly. It’s an energy motivating us to move towards the better times that hopefully lie ahead. Hope matters because it’s more than surviving the current storm, it’s doing something to get out of it. Even in those moments when my best coping mechanism seemed to be the desire to run away. I found hope to be my life jacket, keeping me afloat when it felt as though I would drown in fear. It keeps us going even on those days when it seems as though we’ll never bounce back. Because living with a life without hope is a surefire path to getting physically ill, while the pain festers within.įeeling hopeful guards against falling into the trap that present problems equal problems in your future. It means admitting that you have no idea what the next step will be like, but you are going to stop assuming the worst. It means being open to feeling your fear or any other painful emotion. Having hope doesn’t mean everything that hurts or is scary instantly disappears. And it can help you to create a mind-set that helps you face your current challenges and allows you to emotionally and physically move on. It’s the feelings of hope that helped me resume living after more than one devastating loss in life. To keep on smiling, loving and living, despite the fear or pain of loss and sense of despair that we all probably endure on our life journey.Įven when our present comes littered with negative experiences that doesn’t mean the future will continue to be as difficult or scary. Where we find the motivation to keep on keeping on. What is hopeĪ dictionary definition would be ‘a feeling of expectation and a desire for certain things to happen’.įor me it’s a feeling of positivity where I see the potential for a good future. And I was happy that somehow I had radiated that hope into another human being who took it up and ran with it towards his healthier future. I have no idea to this day what words I actually spoke, but I knew that I had immersed myself in hope, because the alternative was too awful to contemplate. She never thought she’d see this day arrive, since he had been sinking lower and lower into depression, and fading away before her very eyes. Her husband had the same type of cancer as mine and she told me that hearing my perspective on hope had such an influence on him that this was the day he was being discharged. So hope and I joined them.Īnd one day, whilst visiting my husband, a woman sought me out.
They thought my positive attitude might be of help to others. Nevertheless, I was so full of hope that the hospital staff asked me to sit in on their cancer group. They never actually said in so many words how serious it was, but I knew. It was years and years ago when my husband was diagnosed with cancer. Where true hope, not only lifted me up, but lifted others too. Have you ever been in a situation where hope kept you afloat? I know I have.