Hello, I'm Tony factory. Thank you for joining me today on this video blog. Today's topic is your challenges, your lessons. Okay? Here are some principles to guide you through that. Listen, whatever challenges are present in your life right now are there for your purpose there to guide your personal growth in your personal evolution.

And sure, when we are in the midst of a challenge and embroiled in the turmoil, it seems like we just want to get rid of it. And that's fine. Go with the feeling. Go with what you feel. Don't push up against the resistance of the feelings that come up rather feel them, allow them to come through you and pass for you. Welcome them in as you would affirm Coming to your front door, just let them pass, but stop the resistance.

Secondly, challenges are a call to accept change both externally and within. So when a challenge presents itself in your life, it is asking you to change something within now might be a thought, a belief, a disempowering emotion, it is something internally which does not match your outside circumstances. So, as you go within and change that landscape change that in a thought that you know, beliefs or ideas and principles, then your outside world begins to change. So, what you then looked as a challenge suddenly dissolves, it becomes transparent because you have gone with even in order to solve the problem, so listen, life is change. Life is subject to continual and perpetual Change, nothing remains the same. So therefore often less resistance to that.

And is much like a surfer surfing a wave and expecting every wave to the, you know one to made a swell, it's not going to happen. Yet a good surfer, which is akin to our position in life knows that some waves will be larger than others and others will be smaller, but learns to take advantage of those. So the bigger waves serve to remind the surfer that he can become technical, stronger, more powerful, while the small ones prepare him or her rather for the bigger challenges the bigger waves and as I've said, there is no permanency to life. Even our thoughts and emotions are subject to change. And I've referred to this in past videos, being wary of attaching an eye to something and that is I am you know, feeling depressed, I am feeling sad I am feeling rather I am having the experience of sadness, allow it to pass through you, rather than identifying you as the owner of that experience.

So let your challenges take you where they need to without resistance. simply say yes to the experience. And I like to think of a challenge as leaning into the challenge. So when a challenge arrives into your life, rather than resisting it, simply lean forward lean into the challenge. What could this challenge be asking of me see it as an opportunity to see it as a stepping stone, rather than purely something that disrupts your life and listen, change is difficult challenges are difficult. We want to stay comfortable, it's inherent, it is the human nature, to remain stable to remain comfortable rather than jump outside.

Of our comfort zone. So when challenges arrive, it really disrupts our equilibrium, our inner balance. And so there's this inner resistance that normally begins at the initial stages. And then suddenly it gives way, much like a volcano that big eruption occurs. And then suddenly, there's this sense of peace or, you know, the lava begins to make its way down the mountain. So, think of life as the same.

Offer less resistance to that initial period, when your challenges begin to surface. So what we think we need and what is right for us are two distinct things. And in keeping with that, let go of your need to control life. And in my experience, working with people and audiences, that is possibly the biggest thing stopping us from attaining happiness, joy, success, you name it, and that is Resistance. The moment we resist, we put up obstacles we put up a wall, you've heard the saying what you resist, persists. So stop the resistance go with life.

I can tell you the more you learn to ride the wave, the more you learn to flow with life, the more you will begin to see the benefits, the changes and the inner guidance and happiness taking you to where you need to go. So simply allow life to permeate through let life take you where it needs to. Because as it does, everything that will happen, will happen for a good reason. And again, referring back to the surfer, sometimes when the surfer catches the two, three meter swell or a wave, he gets spit out and life will do that to you. it'll, it'll take you it'll turn you inside out and then spit you out. But guess what?

You're alive. If you're stronger, you're much happier. And there is a sense of peace to accomplishment and joy that emanates from within. God just reminding you once again about my book the power to navigate life, which is available through amazon.com. A lot of these teachings and principles which I've espoused in these video programs are contained within the book. And the principles encompass both a health and self empowerment, personal growth, and self awareness guide.

And it's an opportunity to experience personal growth from the inside out and it's written in a very simple, easy manner, much like the way I talk and present in these videos. Anyway, enough for me, thank you once again for joining me on these video blogs. My name is Tony factory.