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So read this proverb that I recently learned. . . .and take what you will from it
Atop a stove there are three covered pots of boiling.

In each of the pots is a different food thing

The first pot, there are boiling carrots,
In the second, hard-boiling eggs,
and in the third, it's a pot of tea leaves, which becomes tea
Notice that when confronted by heat, the carrots got soft and lost their color.
The eggs hardened their shells against it...
...and the tea leaves changed the water.


You have three major options whenever life turns up the heat on you:
Like the carrots, you could become a victim, go passive and lose your center.
Or you might, like the eggs, get reactive, defensive, and hard.
Or, you can use the challenge to your advantage, and like the tea leaves, use the situation to meet your goals of being strong, compassionate and loving and infuse the situation from the power of your essence.

The transformation into a happy, healthy and empowered you comes when you realize that you can take any, and I mean any experience, and either allow it to make you into less than you can be...or more than you ever dreamed. It's not the absence of fire that empowers you...it's how you walk through it.

Challenges we all face, from cravings to dysfunctional habits, relationship struggles and self-esteem issues, worries about money and stability and where to turn when life seems bleak, these are all different aspects of the same fire. And guess what? This fire is not something that automatically has to burn your house down, and turn you into a helpless mess.

In fact, the whole spectrum of your life, from the hardest day to the most peaceful, contains nothing but energy for you to use either constructively--or destructively. It's the stories we tack on to our
reality that make the difference between the two.