Who Spilled my Coffee

I remember one particular time where I was absolutely beaten down by what life continued to throw my way. I was overwhelmed by everything happening, and beyond disheartened because I try so hard to be a good person and do the right thing and the universe seemed to be ignoring that. Instead of having good things come back to me, as Karma would predict, I felt as though punches were being thrown at me at every turn. It was especially painful when the instigators of those punches were from people who I tried so hard to do right by.

The way I lived the last few years as was ending until this point should have earned me serious Karma points. I acted with integrity and grace however it looked like story of the lip & the cup sipping coffee hotter in cold moments yes similar like who spilled my coffee moments .Yes i am responsible as i pour the best beans until i clear the vision & help shine screen yes its you make keep you stand firm & going yes its so true to like having those strong taste.... look for the lessons hidden in the downturns of life instead of wallowing in the negativity.And thus, I should be getting some good juju back, right?

It reminds of a great story i read of Carrot the egg or the coffee Been to uplift my soul ..?

Wrong.While I had found myself in a perfect storm, where every core area in my life was blowing up at once. Through this practice, I had the opportunity to ponder who I wanted to be through this downturn in my life. Was I the carrot who was strong, but allowed the adversity to steal my strength? Was I the egg, with the soft heart that became hardened and bitter? I knew I didn’t want either of those options. I had experienced both before, and I was not interested in going there again.

The story begins with a daughter telling her mother about all of the life challenges that have her so beaten down she just doesn’t know what to do anymore. Her mother put three pots of water on the stove to boil and placed carrots in the first, eggs in the second, and coffee beans in the remaining pot. After the items had a chance to swirl around in the boiling water for a bit, her mother asked her to look at each pot to determine what she saw. Each item had faced the same adversity, but came through it differently.

The carrot went into the water hard and strong, but came out weak. The eggs were fragile with a fluid center, but became hardened after being subjected to the boiling water. The coffee beans were different though, as they changed the water.Story further explained the experience of the boiling coffee bean. When things are tough, do you want to change the situation around you? When life throws you the most hurtful punches, will you elevate to persevere through the challenges and emerge a better version of yourself on the other side?

In that moment, I chose to be the coffee bean. I’ve been the carrot and the egg at many times during my life, and certainly through the time period leading up to my toughest task . Since that time, I have worked to be the coffee bean. At this point though, I’d been knocked down just enough to revert back to my old patterns.

So, I encourage you to ask yourself as you are in this phase of contemplating to be or not to be moments or well into the process — who are you going to be? How do you want to handle the challenges that will be thrown at you in a potentially unrelenting way?

The coffee bean is a good analogy for what we have aspired to create with Untangle The Knot. — Mind, body and spirit — to help you change your environment, create something wonderful from adversity and emerge on the other side a richer person who is now fully in the process of becoming who they are meant to be.

When Life Provides The Cup

You Choose How To FILL

You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere.Why did you spill the coffee? 

"Because someone bumped into me!!!"

Wrong answer.You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup. Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.

Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It's easy to fake it, until you get rattled.So we have to ask ourselves... “what's in my cup?"When life gets tough, what spills over?Joy, gratefulness, peace and humility? Anger, bitterness, harsh words and reactions? 

Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.

Today let's work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation; and kindness, gentleness and love for others.

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VALUES NEVER DIE

FILL YOUR CUP WITH VALUES