This video quote was inspired by Elizabeth Kubler Ross. Here I discuss mindfulness as we go through life challenges, and how everything happens for a reason. Watch and find out how. 
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Susan you’re very compelling on video! Thank you for sharing this great truth with us. I’ve been going through some challenges myself and it’s really good to hear/see you share. I like to call the challenges ‘wiggles’ instead of struggling because its more fun when you wiggle out of something
I love what you’re up to, keep going!!
“Everything happens for a reason”. I’ve heard that saying a lot. Whether it’s from a Christian, Muslim, Hindu, a spiritual person or even a non-believer. It seems like some Memes are hard to shake.
Why I am bringing this up? Well I do not think everything happens for a reason and I think that religious people hold these types of bite size sayings in their minds as part of their religious thinking. The Bible is too big, confusing and boring to be a daily source of advice and council (unless you keep it handy as a reference guide) so people need little nuggets of philosophy to constantly hold close in their minds as a way to think through life’s tough situations.
If you think scientifically you will understand that things that happen in the world/universe do not have a grand reason or purpose behind them. Things happen to you in your life as a matter of coincidence and reasoned decisions that other humans make that may effect you directly, indirectly or randomly. The laws of physics along with the uncountable variable of things that other people are doing in the world at any given moment set the environment for the things that will happen to you. There is no one or no god setting the stage for what will happen to you.
From anecdotal experience I feel like one of the major paradigm shifts in thinking someone needs to make when changing from a religious based thinker to a free thinker is to drop the notion that everything happens for a reason.
I feel there is a “spiritual” (in the emotional sense) awakening when one accepts that things do not happen for a reason. Because no one has declared a destiny for you; you are free to tunnel the path through life that you desire. Your situation in life or something tragic that happened to you or a loved one was not because a god does not like you or has cursed you. Whatever position and situation in life you currently find yourself in can be changed if you reflect on the power you have to shape and change who you are as a stream of thoughts and how you want to experience the rest of your life. Instead of dreams you can have goals. Instead of prayers you can have plans. It’s a liberating feeling.
I think that atheists and philosophers should develop new bite sized memes to keep in our minds and to teach our children. These bite sized memes can serve as simple scientific answers to life’s complicated questions that can help us feel more connected to our existence and the world around us.
Another good video Susan. You are so right everything does happen for a reason. I have found that sometimes I may not find out what the reason is a year. That is why it is so important not to get stressed out about things, because there is always a reason.
Debbie
Susan hits the nail on the head AGAIN!!!
Thanks so much Susan… I just love the way you talk to the idea of “just getting through it” and how that leads to losing the experience and the message… This powerful…
Just getting through it means we miss out on our full experience of life…
It’s okay to feel whatever it is that you’re feeling around disappointment… Letting go of the attachment of the outcome is so important.. EASY??? Heck no!!
Essential?? Heck yes…
We must take this information from our heads to our hearts as well…
Just going through a bunch of this right now…
Not easy, but I am allowing myself feel what I need to feel without it owning me as well…
This is such an involved topic for conversation, You could have an entire call about it!!!!
Big hugs,
Dianne
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Great message… sometimes when you are in the middle of something beyond your control, you just have to know there’s is a reason it is happening and there’s something to learn in the end. That has helped me get through some pretty tough things and I always try to remember I am a better person as a result.
Susan, thank you for a beautiful video and teaching
I like what you said about not having to ‘know’ right now – and it reminds me of this beautiful passage that I wanted to share with everyone here. It helps remind me when I’m in the thick of times when I *want*to ‘know’ and *need* to know – that I don’t *have* to know in order to live 
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Have patience with everything
unresolved in your heart and try to
love the questions themselves, as if they
were locked rooms, or books
written in a very foreign language.
Don’t search for the answers,
which could not be given to you
now, because you would not be
able to live them. And the point
is to live everything. Live the
questions now. Perhaps then, someday
far in the future, you will gradually,
without even noticing it, live
your way into the answer.
–Rainer Maria Rilke