I've been reminding myself lately how absurd it is to let anything in my life have power over me and stress me out/give me anxiety.
If I TRULY believe that I am the Creator of my reality, then I *am* my reality. Nothing seemingly external is "coming for me." It can't. It doesn't have power over me. It's coming *from* me, not at me.
It's all flowing from me, so I'm only going to create good things for myself.
This has been my belief for years now, but I still have to consciously remind myself oftentimes.
It's an especially important reminder when I catch myself becoming frustrated with a difficult or unpleasant experience/circumstance, because at that time, I'll be viewing that experience as something "external."
It's not external, even though it's unpleasant. It's something I created in my life.
Once I remember that Fact and accept it, then I can create a new reality for myself. First by changing how I'm feeling in that moment toward that experience, by switching from a negative mindset to a positive one.
Then by letting that new positive mindset reprogram my reality.
Everything in life is leading to deeper and greater love. Love for the beauty and love that is within and all around us. As too, the love for the mysteries unfolding all around us.
“If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like.
Leap clear of all that is corporeal, and make yourself grown to a like expanse with that greatness which is beyond all measure; rise above all time and become eternal; then you will apprehend God. Think that for you too nothing is impossible; deem that you too are immortal, and that you are able to grasp all things in your thought, to know every craft and science; find your home in the haunts of every living creature; make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths; bring together in yourself all opposites of quality, heat and cold, dryness and fluidity; think that you are everywhere at once, on land, at sea, in heaven; think that you are not yet begotten, that you are in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you have died, that you are in the world beyond the grave; grasp in your thought all of this at once, all times and places, all substances and qualities and magnitudes together; then you can apprehend God.
But if you shut up your soul in your body, and abase yourself, and say “I know nothing, I can do nothing; I am afraid of earth and sea, I cannot mount to heaven; I know not what I was, nor what I shall be,” then what have you to do with God?”
― Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius