If you've ever had to deal with
uncertainty or a feeling of chaos in
your life, then I really hope that you
will listen to this episode, because I've
got a message that I really want to
share with you. That's today on the Art
of Life-ing with Keka.
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A few months ago,
my mum went through a health crisis
where we literally were taking her to
the hospital in an ambulance. And I'm
really grateful and thankful to report
that she's doing much better, and has
made a recovery, and is back to normal.
But you know, in that moment when I was
experiencing that crisis, that I would
call it, there were some moments where I
was really scared. You know, where I didn't
know what was going to happen in the
future. And we talk so much about
happiness and being purposeful in the
Art of Life-ing on this channel, but you
know, life happens sometimes and there
are things that can happen where you
have no control. And certainly that was a
moment where I had no control. But the
really crazy part about that experience
was, that 20 years ago, literally in 1999,
my mom had gotten sick at one point, and
we'd taken her to the hospital thinking
that she just had a bad cold, and maybe
something with her lungs that some
antibiotics could fix, but it turned out
she was much sicker than that. She had
had bronchial pneumonia, and they ended
up keeping her in the hospital for
several weeks, and her health had taken a
turn for the worse. And she had come very
close to dying at that time. So, much of
what happened to me recently with my mom
almost felt like a deja vu,
you know, from 20 years ago. And perhaps
it's life experience, perhaps it's
looking at life in a different way, but
the one thing that I realized when I was
going through this, a couple of months
ago, was that I have finally come to a
place in my life where I feel like, there
are things that we can do with intention,
and there are things that happen in life
that we have no control over. The
difference for me, in terms of what
happened 20 years ago versus what I was
going through now, was that 20 years ago
I had this complete sense of total chaos.
That you know, when my mom was sick and
we didn't know what was going to happen,
I felt this internal chaos inside of me,
where
I wanted to do something, I wanted to take
control, I wanted the outcome to be
something different. I almost wanted to
like, will the outcome to be different.
But this time around, I recognized that I
can only do as much as I can do. There's
only so many things that are in my
control, and then everything else is
going to happen as its supposed to
happen. And what I realized is that, you
know, when we go through difficult
periods of time, when...when we feel
uncertainty or we feel dis-balanced
or we feel a sense of chaos, if we can
take a step back for a moment, and really
analyze what it is that we can control
and do, and then let the things that we
cannot control go, it suddenly takes that
feeling of chaos away! And that's really
what happened for me, was that when I
realized that my mom is sick -  I want to
do everything we can to help her, but at
the end of the day, there are certain
things I just cannot control. I let go of
that and it made all the difference for
me. And over the last period of time as
we've been developing this Art of Life-ing
journey, it's a part of me that I feel
like I really need to give to the world.
I just need...I just feel this need to
share. But I feel like I'm in the right
place, and so when things happen that
don't go my way, or you know a particular
plan that I have, sort of blows up, or
goes in a different direction, or any
time I find myself in a difficult
circumstance, I keep reminding myself:
everything is happening for a reason.
What are the lessons we can take away
from this? And when you're feeling chaos
and uncertainty, quite often, I think, that
we stop looking for the lessons. And that
to me is the biggest difference, that I
feel today when I look at being on this
Art of Life-ing journey, and doing life
on purpose, doing it on my own terms,
the biggest thing I think about is when
something difficult is happening - I start
to ask myself: What are the lessons in
here that the universe is trying to tell
me? What is it that I need to look at
differently? I get much more
introspective, and the sense of chaos
goes away and I become much more
analytical. Now, life has its ups and
downs. And things are not always going to
be rosey., You know, that's just part
of the way that we are living. But the
message that I wanted to share with you
today is that, if you're feeling yourself...
if you're finding yourself in that sense
of chaos or a sense of uncertainty, maybe
it's worth just taking a step back and
asking yourself: What is the lesson that
I'm supposed to draw from this, in this
moment? Because when you start looking at
it that way, the imbalance that you
feel and the uncomfortableness sometimes
can pass, that can get better. It can be
much easier and in the process, there are
lessons we can take away and apply in
other areas of our life.
Thank you so
much for watching this video. If you
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Art of Life-ing, and really DO life on
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