Enjoy All Your Problems
Every solution has a problem. You can’t have one without the other. So why do we say that we hate problems? Why do we claim to want a hassle-free existence? When someone is emotionally sick, why do we say, “He’s got problems”? Deep down, when our wisdom lives, we know that problems are good for us. We are so superstitious about our own problems that we tend to run from them rather than solve them. We have demonised problems to such a degree that they are like monsters that live under the bed. And by not solving them during the day, we tremble over them at night. Problems are not curses. Problems are simple tough games for the athletes of the mind, and true athletes always long to get a game going. “Every problem in your life,” said Richard Bach, author of Illusions , “carries a gift inside it.” He is right. But we have to be thinking that way first, or the gift will never appear. In his groundbreaking studies of natural healing, Dr. Andrew Weil s...