We do everything in our power to control everything in our lives, ensuring that everything goes according to plan as we desire, so that our lives are filled with success and happiness and we are able to do whatever we choose to do that stimulates and fulfills us. What most people do not stop to consider, is that we do not control even the most basic functions in our lives that keep us alive, such as our breathing, circulation and heartbeats (100,000 a day) and the trillions of cells in our bodies with their myriad chemical reactions taking place every second of our lives. We simply are not in control of our lives. We are too frequently not in control of accidents and the often devastating outcomes physically and emotionally for us and our loved ones; the loss of loved ones; natural disasters and wars, to name but a few examples. We are in control of our thoughts, attitudes and actions, according to our level of consciousness but we are not in control of everything that happens to us in our lives, nor are we fully in control of our environment that is collectively controlled by many other humans, all with their own thoughts, ideas and level of consciousness. We cannot control our trillions of bodily functions. Every second of our lives, 37 billion trillion biochemical reactions are taking place in our bodies without us doing anything or being aware of it. How can we think that we control our lives?
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