Dain Heer – Being You, Changing the World
Tez: When we are facing adversity, how can we overcome it?
Dain: Firstly, it starts with making the demand that you’re not going to let it get you down, and you’re not going to let it destroy you. Secondly, ask yourself a question like
“What is it going to take to change this?”
“What else is possible?”
“What is right about this situation I am not getting?” or
“How does it get any better than this?”
Most of us, when we’re faced with adversity, think we’re stuck with it. Asking a question always opens a different door of possibility and the situation changes because is there any such thing as adversity, or is that how we define it and how we judge it? If we can get over our judgment that it is adversity, is it possible that it might be possibility? Also ask yourself, “what possibility is available here that I haven’t yet considered?” and it will take you out of having to fight it because it’s adversity, because that’s how the Universe shows us possibility; shows us that it’s a place where we need to change, or where there is something available that we haven’t yet chosen.
Tez: What’s your life philosophy?
Dain: To me life is about having fun. That doesn’t mean lying on the beach, shirking responsibility, it means having fun even while doing those things that you’re responsible for doing. What if you created your life form the joy of it rather than the pain and suffering of it? Twelve years ago I was at the place where I was going to kill myself, because none of my life was fun or enjoyable and having come through that I realize that having a life that is fun and enjoyable is a choice, and we can create it. The tools are available.
