READ: Hopes, fears probed in ‘The Hunger Games’ by Brent Marchant

It can be easy to let our fears get the best of us. And it can be even harder to shake them once we allow them to settle in and become comfortable. But rising above these self-imposed limitations is crucial if ever we hope to get by in life, even under the most trying of circumstances, a notion explored in the new cinematic blockbuster, “The Hunger Games.”

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Perhaps forcing viewers to consider this unnerving possibility is the point of this film, pushing us to examine a consciously created probability that’s just as valid (even if not as palatable) as all the others we might manifest for ourselves. Then again, given the dispiriting nature of this picture, one might also wonder why anybody would want to sit through a two-hour exploration of the idea that “life sucks and then you die.”

How Divorce Saved My Marriage – The final installment of a 3-part series

I already knew that I had it in me to change my story anytime I wanted. So I no longer had to worry about making the “wrong” decision because if I didn’t like how things worked out, I could always change them again.

How Divorce Saved My Marriage – Part 2

Feeling a need to be supported is natural because we all want to know that we are doing the right thing. But no one on this planet can possibly understand what is best for you except YOU. This is something I knew and believed, yet still struggled with. I was really forced to trust the unknown for the first time in my life and I really hoped that I had the strength to walk this road “alone” if I had to.

READ: How Divorce Saved My Marriage – A Three Part Series

I began to realize that this is the gift that I had been given in Greece during my meditation. The gift to feel the great presence around me. To know that I was being watched over, cared for and kept safe. I knew that I could make this leap and that I would be okay because I would be living what was truly in my heart.

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