The Gift of Challenging Times: Learn how our greatest life gift is handed to us in our most challenging time.
For the past twenty years or so, the world has been rapidly going through a major transformation. Our world has been shrinking and melting into one community. With the advent of new technologies and information high way, a person in USA can pick up a phone and speak with a person in China within seconds with such clarity. Business and board meetings are conducted through electronic technologies. Speed has collapsed time in ways that cannot be imagined two hundred years ago. One can get in an air plane from Oklahoma City and arrive in New York City in a matter of less than three hours.
These blessings, just like everything else in life also come with some hefty prices. Among the prices are corporate greed; relocation of economic infrastructures from one part of the world to another for bottom line competitive advantage; wars; crime; unemployment; disintegration of families; lawlessness and disregards for human decency that gave ways to terrorism in the name of religion and massive oil spills in the Gulf in the name of corporate greed.
These transformations present also major life challenges. These life challenges tend to bring out the worst in all of us. We look for somebody or something to blame. These challenges drive nations to turn against each other; communities against one another; race against race, family against their own; youth against senior citizens, and citizens against their own governments. These challenges pierce the core of our wellness and manifest in our collective human unconscious in forms of anger, resentment, hate, anxiety about what tomorrow may or may not brings. It threatens and in many cases collapses our divine inherent values and human decency. It shakes the core of everything we believe in. In many cases, these challenges appear so downright hateful, painful, so monumental and insurmountable to the point the heart prays for death.
The truth of the matter is many of our greatest gifts in life are handed to us in our darkest hours. The reason many of us do not recognize the blessings in disguise and claim some of these life-changing gift/s during these difficult times is that we focus only on the pain. We allow our minds to be clouded with anger; resentments, hate, blame, despair, hopelessness and all the things that do not enhance our ability to realize that the power to beat any challenge belongs to us and resides in us. Many of us turn to mind altering substances and other destructive behaviors to prevent us from looking ourselves in the eyes of our souls and face the challenges life presents to us. As difficult and painful as these challenges may appear to be, they do not have any power other than the power we give to them.
Individuals and nations who have done well in challenging times and enjoy the gifts that comes with challenging times are those individuals, nations and organizations who understand that every challenge also presents big opportunities and greater gifts of life. They are individuals and nations who are able to quiet the storms of their minds and national psyche, and seek the light instead of the darkness. These are organizations and individual who are able to understand that the day light always follows the darkness of the night and that every single day presents complete sets of blessings and solutions to every challenge. These are people and nations who take advantages of the challenges of life, understanding that behind every difficult time is an abundance of blessings waiting to hold and nurture whomever that stands the test of the storm.
These individuals, nations and organizations rally the troops of their minds and collective psyche of their nations and organizations, and rise up with unshakable drive to meet every obstacle and every challenge. These are individuals, nations and organization that have done well in all areas of personal, organization and national growth.
Look around you and the world around you. You will recognize these individuals, nations and organizations. They seem to appear smarter and more blessed than the rest of us. They always seem to ride with the tide of life relatively smooth and with victory always on their side. Are you one of them? Is your nation and organization among these movers and shakers?
If you are not and want to belong to this class of people and organization contact the International Institute for Wellness and Integrated Healing (IIWIH. Our specialty is rebuilding individual life and organizational psyche. We help you build your war room for successful living. We stand shoulder to shoulder with you or your organization crushing every challenge life throws at you. We attach yours or your organizational challenges using the most amazing holistic and integrative approach that incorporates mind-body-spirit.
At the International Institute for Wellness and Integrated Healing, we challenge you to challenge yourself or organization! Just come and hold our hands “Life rewards those who challenge it.”
By Dr Chris O’Banye




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