PAY IT FORWARD
Have you ever had a bad day and then everything changed because a stranger smiled or said or did something nice for you? Do you remember what that felt like? Was it a good feeling? Something you want to feel again? Something you wish for others to experience? What would it take for you to smile at the people you meet on the street on any given day? Would that be a big change? Would that be something you could consider doing? What if the choice to help a stranger means the difference between Life or Death for that person that day? Would it be worth it then to get out of your comfort zone? What if before you smiled at that person, the darkness they felt inside was so overwhelming they were about to end their life, but the warmth they felt from that one smile was enough to actually keep them from doing it that day. If you knew that, would you do it more often?  Have you ever felt that grateful feeling when someone has given you a helping hand that was no big deal to them, but it made all the difference in the world to you? Do you remember how grateful that made you feel? Like you actually mattered? Like you're important enough for someone else to take time out of their life to help you. To be on the receiving end of that feels amazing, but I think the giving end feels even better.  It’s a nice feeling to put a smile on someone’s face just because you can. To always say out loud the compliments you think. To always lend a hand when you see someone struggle. To not be the person that looks the other way, but to actively choses to pay it forward to anyone and everyone just because you can.  To actually take time to ask a someone who is struggling if there is some way you can help brighten their day. Sometimes just talking is enough. That one kind word that didn’t cost you anything might have put some sunshine in that person’s life that day. You have no idea what goes on in the lives of the people you meet on the street. The pain that some people carry inside. To give of yourself and to notice someone that has never been seen before might make a world of difference. It might be the turning point in that person’s life.
I took the train to work everyday prior to Bliss and every single morning I saw this homeless guy sitting by the exit begging for money. I’ve given him some from time to time. From day one I’ve felt this urge to talk to him, and one day I decided to make the change from looking to doing so I did. I went and bought him breakfast and then instead of just giving it to him and walk away I decided to sit down next to him and talk to him. I felt like it must have been so long since he actually felt like a human being, so if nothing else I wanted to give him that. I gave him his food and started to talk to him. I think the first thing I said sitting down was;  – What happened?  He told me his life story and the exact moment when it all went south. He slept in different toilettes around the city and was addicted to heroin. The authority’s had not helped him, so he was left out in the cold to die basically. He had a 10 year old daughter. He showed me a picture of her. She lived with her mom. She was the sunshine in his world but something happened and now he wasn’t aloud to see her anymore. That had made his whole world dark.  I decided that I was going to help this man. I started by giving him food everyday. I also sat down and talked to him every day. I coached him back to life and helped him find his inner strengths to get the social services to open up the doors for him again so he could get into rehab. His face lit up when I came by. He looked so grateful. That in return made me feel even more grateful that I hade made the choice to reach out to him that day.
Gratefulness is an incredible feeling. So what happened in this world to make the compassion for people in desperate need of help disappear? Why is money more important than people? How did that happen? What inside you is stopping you from actually reaching out? Ask yourself that. What is keeping you from changing? What will it take for you to lose your mind and go with what feels right instead?  Do you need help getting there? Is the step from where you are at today to actually make that shift too big? Could a smaller step be to start helping yourself break free and find inner peace? What is keeping you from helping yourself finding your own bliss? What is keeping you from being who you truly are? What is keeping you from making it right? To create more love in this world is so easy to do, but for some reason so incredibly hard for people to actually see as a truth. Maybe one of the reasons there is so many people in need in this world is so that the rest of us can learn how to help. The reason for things being what they are doesn't really matter. It's what you choose to do about it that counts. The human race is a very young creation and what you need the most right now to rise in consciousness level is to learn how to help in a new way the actually helps. Helping someone stems from kindness and compassion that in turn comes from love. Love is the root to everything good and it's what's lacking in this world. There is this amazing movie called Pay It Forward. When someone helps you, don’t pay it back – pay it forward.  It basically works like this; you do a favor for three people. Something they can’t do for themselves and then you ask each of them to pay the favor forward by doing favors for three other people each, and so on. It will spread endlessly. I highly recommend watching it if you haven’t seen it already.  We are all in this human experience together so BE HUMAN! If you can, help someone who can’t. Give everyone you meet something to be grateful for. It will bounce back onto you. Every single thing you do comes back to you, so the more love and positivity you spread the more of that will fill your world. Choose positive thinking to help create a better world. Find inner peace to help create World Peace. It's not that hard! Give love to yourself and everyone you meet. It changes everything. There is enough of everything on this planet for everyone. Use your power to create. If you would use all the money spent on war- poverty would be no more. It’s time for a change.  We are all connected. Figure out how to help someone and someone will help you. This world needs healing.  It’s desperately crying out to get our attention! What do you think all these natural disasters are? It’s LIFE asking us to WAKE UP! If you take a step back and look at the bigger picture with the knowledge that whatever happens inside is what we are living on the outside, you will understand what I mean. Too many people are worshipping suffering. The thoughts of too many people are way too unbalanced hating on themselves. That combined is creating all the misery we see. We are living and experiencing the lack of love people feel inside. Too many people have forgotten what’s true and are living solely through their egos instead of from their hearts. This World is in need of direction and that's exactly what Bliss is meant to be. Read it. See it. Feel it. Create it.
