Life chose you.

I was having a heartfelt conversation with a good friend, who shared her daughter's difficulty with having chosen art as her career. I can't tell you how many times I have questioned my path in Chinese medicine. It has been difficult facing the financial challenges and the working difficulties of trying to share this non mainstream modality to health care.

In talking to this friend it finally occurred to me. Her daughter did not choose art, ART chose her. I DID NOT choose a healing path, IT chose me. The more I resist that FACT the more I suffer. The more I resist the life that wants to flow through me, the greater strain I create and I become unhappy.

The disappointment is not in what I chose, but in denying what life has chosen for me.

When you connect to your truth and what drives you and stop resisting it, that is when suffering seizes. It doesn't mean that everything becomes "easy", rather the challenges become worthwhile and you are able to show up more, with greater energy and drive.

I love what I do in my heart and when I do it I feel free and happy. When I allow for my life force to be expressed, regardless of the "benefits", my life makes sense, because I am in the flow of life and what it wants for me.

If you can't connect to this, but feel there is truth to this, try the work, it just might set you free.