It has been said that there are no accidents in life, and yet all of life could not have been predicted. Life is one surprise after another. Certainly, there is synchronicity and yet there are no accidents. Even an accident is not an accident. You did not expect it, and yet you ran toward it.

There is tension, and there is relaxation. Choose relaxation. Give up battling and protesting. Then you will have let tension go.

Flight and fight are not good enough for you. Skip along and meet life half-way. Say, “Okay.” Say, “Okay, life. In whatever guise you come, you are my friend. I sought you out, and you sought me out. Let us go hand in hand along our merry way. When life is hard and when life is soft, I relax into life. I am soft. Non-resistant, we relax. Non-resistant, we melt. I am not a warrior of life. I am not on a battlefield. I surrender my resistance. That is how I bounce back. That is how I get on with it.

“Life loves me. It means me no harm. That which harms me, I must let go of. If I did not want it in the first place, why would I hold it tight now?

“It is like that in life I am at a dance. Different partners choose me, and I dance. Some dance partners, I prefer, and, yet, while I dance with my erstwhile partner, I dance. One dance finishes, and another starts. I dance my lifelong life.

“Sometimes there is a movie on the screen that I absolutely adore, and sometimes there is a scary movie, and all kinds of other varieties, and each is my dance partner while he is. I would rather dance than not dance. And so I turn, and so I twirl and meet life as it comes to me. May I say thank you for every dance, for I am a dancer in life. All dances are proof that I am alive on Earth, and so I welcome my varied dance partners. I spin, and I twirl, and I dance amicably.

“It is not so much that I roll with the punches. By and by I come to the realization that there are no punches, just life doing its dance. A waltz is a waltz. A tango is a tango. I choose to dance with life. In high heels or flat shoes, I dance. In heat and in cold. In sickness and in health. I can love the gift of life no matter who my dance partner is, for all partners are my neighbors. I can love my neighbors as myself. I do love my neighbors as myself, only I have not always loved myself.

“I welcome life in all its forms. I welcome stability, and I welcome change. I welcome life as it comes to me. I do not push it away. I welcome life, for I am alive. No longer do I protest life. It has come as my friend, and I will be a friend to life. May I be a good friend to life.

“Just as I bake a cake with the ingredients I have on hand, so do I live life. I may want to make a chocolate cake, yet, if I do not have chocolate in my pantry, I will make a vanilla cake and be pleased. Life is ever at my side, and I will walk with it as its companion. I will be companionable. I will take life as it comes, and I will be friendly to it. I will embrace the life I live and thank it for being mine.”