#651

"It's not reality that people struggle with. It's the beliefs and values they set up as a preferred substitute to reality that causes grief."

Most things are not what they seem..... 

When you perceive something as overwhelming, something that you simply cannot comprehend, your beliefs system will dispatch the standard response to the forefront, and you'll react to accordingly. You have been indoctrinated since birth with beliefs that may not be valid in your life today. You are automatically reacting to stimuli as you have been programmed, with no forethought whatsoever. You are accepting a preferred substitute to reality to avoid what is.

Also, there are times when it's not what is actually happening at this moment that you are avoiding, but, it's what you think should be happening or what you wish was happening. Either way, life is happening NOW, and whatever is happening IS, you can't change it because by the time you react you are in a new NOW.... acceptance is the only way.