{"id":3305,"date":"2023-05-23T00:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T06:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winwinwomen.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2023-05-23T00:27:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T06:27:31","slug":"on-self-transformation-a-story-youll-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winwinwomen.com\/?p=3305","title":{"rendered":"On Self-Transformation: A Story You\u2019ll Never Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Self-Transformation: A Story You\u2019ll Never Forget<\/h2>\n

One of the most important lessons I\u2019ve ever learned is this: The most important thing you can do for your personal well-being is to stop trying to control what you can\u2019t control \u2013 others \u2013 and begin to control what you can control \u2013 yourself.<\/p>\n

In part, I learned this through a wonderful story that I\u2019d like to share with you.<\/p>\n

There was once an aging Hindu master who grew tired of his apprentice complaining and so one morning he sent the young man for some salt. When the apprentice returned, the master instructed the unhappy, negative youth to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow does it taste?\u201d the master asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery bitter,\u201d spit the apprentice.<\/p>\n

The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake, and once the apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water, the old man directed, \u201cNow drink from the lake.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the water dripped down the young man\u2019s chin, the master asked, \u201cHow does it taste?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFresh,\u201d remarked the apprentice.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you taste the salt?\u201d asked the master.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d replied the young man.<\/p>\n

At this, the master sat beside this serious young man who so reminded him of himself and took his hands, saying, \u201cThe pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So, when you are in pain, enlarge your sense of things, expand your perspective. Stop being a small glass. Become a lake.\u201d<\/p>\n

How can we apply this in our lives? How do you \u201cbecome a lake\u201d and experience such self-transformation?<\/p>\n

I thought about this long and hard, and I came up with this:<\/p>\n

Use the principle of choice. Don\u2019t allow others to offend you or to pierce your dreaming heart. Take the negative behavior of others and drop their painful words into the calm expanse of your abundance mentality ~ your tolerant, loving kindness ~ and watch the negativity disappear.<\/em><\/p>\n

Written By Dr. Paula Fellingham<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0Founder of\u00a0<\/em>WIN WIN Women<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Self-Transformation: A Story You\u2019ll Never Forget One of the most important lessons I\u2019ve ever learned is this: The most important thing you can do for your personal well-being is to stop trying to control what you can\u2019t control \u2013 others \u2013 and begin to control what you can control \u2013 yourself. In part, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":3306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winwinwomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winwinwomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winwinwomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winwinwomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winwinwomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winwinwomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winwinwomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winwinwomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winwinwomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winwinwomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}