This is not a rehearsal for another life.

Today is not a rehearsal for another life–though there are those who believe that we are always transistioning to and from another life. What I want to have you do is to empower yourself to enjoy this life today–a life to be proud of. A life full of love. A life full of joy.  Remember you are always surrounded by people who care and who are willing to help. Sometimes you may feel a cloud of dispair–remember there is always a clear sky above the clouds with endless possibilities. Clouds are not walls. We create our own walls which we have the power to remove.

If you were in an airplane that was suddenly thrown into an emergency situation, all of the air masks drop from the ceilings. You are instructed to put the mask on yourself first before assisting your own loved one, or even the perfect stranger sitting next to you needing help. You have to take care of yourself first before you can help others. As you walk around feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders–think of each one of your challenges as an individual sandbag filled with 100 pounds of filthy dirt on your shoulders. As you allow those sandbags to accumulate on your shoulders, you find yourself literally walking slower, slumping over, a perfect candidate as a patient for a physical therapists like myself.  Just take this moment to see how you are sitting or standing. Are you slumped in a chair or dragging your feet. Are you comfortable? Nobody can remove those sandbags for you. Only you can. For each sandbag you deal with, the lighter the load. When you go into a room and see the thermostat set at 72 degrees, to you it may feel warm. To someone else it may seem cold. Which one of you is correct? How you and the other person feels is yours and their own reality. Trying to convince the other of your reality is frustrating, even maddening, but ultimately a waste of everyone’s time. Remove those sandbags of frustration. Feel the weight lift off your shoulders. You have the power to empower not only yourself but many others to accept their own realities. Before you can love someone else, you have to love yourself. You can’t “change” somebody. You do have the ability to “inspire” people. and to “accept” people for who they are.

I believe everything happens for a reason–which is why I believe you are reading this book. If you recieved this book from another person, know they care enough about you and think you are worth it. If you got this book for yourself, then know you care enough about yourself because you are worth it. Keep this book as a guide.  You are not alone in your feelings, so there is no reason not to share them. Give this book to all you care about. Even to a perfect stranger you see looking as though they have a million pounds of sandbags on their shoulders.

Today is not a rehearsal for another life–though there are those who believe that we are always transistioning to and from another life. What I want to have you do is to empower yourself to enjoy this life today–a life to be proud of. A life full of love. A life full of joy.  Remember you are always surrounded by people who care and who are willing to help. Sometimes you may feel a cloud of dispair–remember there is always a clear sky above the clouds with endless possibilities. Clouds are not walls. We create our own walls which we have the power to remove.

If you were in an airplane that was suddenly thrown into an emergency situation, all of the air masks drop from the ceilings. You are instructed to put the mask on yourself first before assisting your own loved one, or even the perfect stranger sitting next to you needing help. You have to take care of yourself first before you can help others. As you walk around feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders–think of each one of your challenges as an individual sandbag filled with 100 pounds of filthy dirt on your shoulders.

As you allow those sandbags to accumulate on your shoulders, you find yourself literally walking slower, slumping over, a perfect candidate as a patient for a physical therapists.  Just take this moment to see how you are sitting or standing. Are you slumped in a chair or dragging your feet. Are you comfortable? Nobody can remove those sandbags for you. Only you can. For each sandbag you deal with, the lighter the load.

When you go into a room and see the thermostat set at 72 degrees, to you it may feel warm. To someone else it may seem cold. Which one of you is correct? How you and the other person feels is yours and their own reality. Trying to convince the other of your reality is frustrating, even maddening, but ultimately a waste of everyone’s time. Remove those sandbags of frustration. Feel the weight lift off your shoulders. You have the power to empower not only yourself but many others to accept their own realities.

Before you can love someone else, you have to love yourself. You can’t “change” somebody. You do have the ability to “inspire” people. and to “accept” people for who they are.

Pass these thoughts on to all you care about. Even to a perfect stranger you see looking as though they have a million pounds of sandbags on their shoulders.

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