Life is full of unpredictable and uncontrollable moments. A doctor tells us that a shadow has shown up in our cat scan. A car runs a red light and smashes into us. Our computer is misbehaving and we have to stop what we are doing to try to get a live person on the line to tell us how to fix it. These are just a few examples of the many occurrences that show up unexpectedly in our lives. So, the question is: How can we better cope with our own sense of being overwhelmed by these unbidden occurrences? Here we explore ways to be more effective in coping with the challenges of daily life as well as how we can tap into our inner brilliance. When we feel overwhelmed by the outer conditions of the world, Finley contends that it isn’t life that is overwhelming us. “We are overwhelmed with resistance to life because we don’t know what to do when all this energy pours in and [therefore] we experience pain. We blame the pain of this on the content of the conditions around us instead of letting the conditions become the conductor of that which awakens us to these parts that do resist life.”
