Navigating life’s difficulties can sometimes seem impossible. Reactions are sometimes quick and unfeeling as one is hurt or angered. Such reactions are the necessary letting go of steam and frustration yet not necessarily right. If one holds back, however, anger builds like steam under pressure and will seek eventual release in another way. Holding in and holding on to anger or hurt feelings is never a good idea. Between the two extremes there is a middle way and the middle way allows for both release and contemplation that will lead to right action.

The middle way offers a little bit of everything, as all is accepted as necessary, and yet the goal of the middle way is really to navigate life taking in all that it offers and all that it challenges yet learning detachment from it as well. To walk the middle way is to walk a path with heart, in true balance with all that is and all that will be.

Truths are revealed all the time. Arguments reveal truths. Disappointments do too. Even joy brings truths. Are you ready for them? Are you ready to understand the deeper meanings that are being revealed to you every day? The universe has a habit of finding a way to show us what we need to know and when. You can probably point out the truths that are being revealed to you like stars in the night sky, like birds flying past, like pebbles on the ground. So many. To ignore them is an option of course, but pretty soon something has to give, for in the end the truth will find its way, ready or not. Today, like any other day, will be filled with truths. What will you decide to do?

Level with the self each day. The truth must be faced. Sometimes it is only right to let go and move on. At other times it is appropriate to stay put, focused on the goal at hand. Sometimes both moves are appropriate simultaneously, for often there is something that must go for something else to flourish. To let go of that which inhibits so that growth may happen is like weeding a garden that has been overtaken by rogue plants, its beauty choked. To allow room for beauty one must remove the unruly, that which has gotten out of hand. Sometimes it’s just time to call it like it is. Restore the beauty that it may bloom and grow. Begin within and soon find it flourishing without.

Learn to pay attention to your body’s speak as much as you pay attention to your mind’s speak, for it communicates more truths in its own way than your busy mind ever will. The body has its own intelligence, its own center of knowledge, and its own means of relaying its truths. Pay attention to what it says and how it says it. It will tell you what is most important for you to hear on any given day. Its energy will tell you what you need to do or not do.

Once you begin listening to your own body, as you learn its language, you will find that it speaks very clearly and you will wonder how you never heard it before. Your life may change as you get into alignment with all that you most naturally are, as natural as the earth around you, your human body environment needing as much tending as the planet you reside upon. To neglect either is to be out of synch with the Tao, the Tao of nature and the Tao of self.

Listening is as important as doing in the Tao of all that is. Listen carefully to the Tao of you and the Tao of you will speak words of wisdom. Are you ready to hear them?

Without regret live your life to the fullest. Be open of heart, mind, and spirit. Be unafraid, certain that all will be fine because as life unfolds you will find this to be true. Plan to live your life according to your life’s plan and all will be well, for your life’s plan is to bring you closer to knowing your Self, and who could be afraid of that!