What do you do when things aren’t going well? When you are in pain, when you are suffering setbacks and reversals, when you have received a mighty injury during an epic battle … what do you do? The true warrior knows that things that have happened cannot be changed. They have already happened. It is a fait acompli. What can be changed is what you do now. In the case of pain and adversity, the true warrior knows that to embrace it lessens its impact, and preserves his or her strength or ammunition for another day. If you are in pain, embrace that pain. Become one with the pain. Let the pain flow through you and warm you. By embracing the pain, it will lessen and diminish. You will use less energy as a result. In fact, if you can meditate on the pain, as you become one with it, you can absorb healing energy from the pain itself as you help yourself heal and strengthen.

We have spoken before about swimming across the current, instead of against it. It is the same with adversity. Go across the flow or in the general direction of the flow, while gathering supplies, manpower, weapons, munitions, tools, and additional resources … until the point is achieved where you are able to step out onto Terra Firma and strike out in the direction of your own choosing—replenished and strengthened. True warriors are smart. Like MacGyver1, they use what is at hand to their advantage, and act when it makes sense to do so.

You are warriors, and by being resourceful, you will surprise yourself with the discoveries you make. It is with this resourcefulness that you will turn the tide and achieve victory and success. So it has been written.