Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Jennie Lee, author of True Yoga and the new Breathing Love.
When something challenging happens, the first thing we usually cry is, "Why?!" Think of the last unfortunate occurrence in your life. How much time and energy did you expend wondering, "Why this? Why now? Why me?" As natural as this is, it is not really helpful. In fact, we can get so stuck in the misery of wondering why a particular experience has happened that we paralyze ourselves from being able to respond effectively.
It is far more beneficial to accept each life event as it is happening and conserve our energy to determine what we need to learn and how we need to move