We have spent most of this week understanding positivity and gratitude and how important

it is for health and well-being. But human beings experience many more complex emotions.

The feeling of regret and failure are two thorns

on the rose bush we have all grappled with in our lives. But before you fall into their trap, consider this.

Regret is a thought about something that doesn't exist anymore. So regret is not real, it's in the imagination.

I personally have no regrets in my life. I used to smoke heavily at one time and that experience taught me all about what it was to be unhealthy and I've done many things like that

that have been amazing events

that I don't regret because I learned from them.

So everything that happens to you is a learning experience.

Moreover, it's important to recognize that everyone does

whatever they do from a certain state of consciousness and a certain state of conditioning.

In a sense, everybody is doing the best they can from their state of awareness or their state of

mental conditioning

due to the situation, circumstances, events, history,

ancestors, economics, on and on.

We could go on forever. So when you truly understand that there's no regrets

and there's no judgment either. This allows us to create a quiet mind and when the mind is quiet then inner energies wake up and they do things for you spontaneously. So if you want to really live fully, then the formula, the

mantra is no regrets, no anticipation, no resistance, just this moment as it is. And needless to say, failure falls in line with my

feeling on regret. If you call yourself a failure, then you will be a failure.

Because that's your self-image and that's your self-assessment.

If on the other hand you interpret failure as an opportunity to not

repeat the same mistakes, then every so-called failure becomes success.

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