If you’re a subscriber to any life-enhancing ezine (including mine, of course!), you’ll know how wonderful it is to receive those regular blessings of love and wisdom, written from the heart to inspire you to live your greatest life.

Helen Elizabeth Evans writes such an ezine. In a recent edition, she told us about Mayo – a special, gentle man who not only profoundly affected the lives of others during his short life, but is also doing so now, after his passing.

I’ve asked Helen Elizabeth whether I could share her (and his) story with you, and she has generously agreed. So here it is, in her words and the words of Mayo. Soak it up, and carry its message with you throughout your day today:

Are you a touch fed up?

Yes, I definitely have my moments when I feel really fed up! I’ve even been quite depressed at times in my life and I meet a lot of depressed people these days. It makes me think about what gets us into our depressions and what gets us out. My experience is that it is about how we think!

The reality is we cannot control what happens to us, nor the behaviour of others around us, but… we CAN control how, a) we think about what happens to us and b) how we respond to what happens to us. I use the world respond deliberately as response requires a conscious behaviour choice whereas our reaction is an unconscious knee-jerk behaviour pattern.

I could share so much with you about getting rid of that feeling that life is awful, depressing or just ordinarily hum-drum, but I’d far rather let Mayo Charles Marriott inspire you!

Before I do let me share a little about him… I did my NLP Masters at a place on the Scottish borders. It was cold and wind-swept and the house we were doing our work in was old and had only the most basic facilities for a person in a wheelchair; and yet there was Mayo in his motorised wheelchair, breathing machine and full-time carer.

See him in the front of our picture here? He wasn’t able to do anything physical for himself (including feed himself) but he did not let that hold him back from growing as a person, from becoming a coach and inspiration to so many others. A couple of weeks ago we heard he had an unexpected heart attack and died 4 days later. He would have been 38 in August.

Here he is with us at the local (and very cold) Tibetan monastery we visited.

Visit his facebook page to see the tributes pouring out to him from those who knew him. Click his photo to go to his Facebook page. It’s below the following letter he left behind, which his sisters shared with his friends.

“If I died in my sleep tonight, what would I want people to think, feel and say? Thank God would not be my favourite choice! The first word I would like to use is positivity, positivity and positivity.

For a long time the feeling of not knowing how long I will live for, used to plague me before I went to sleep at night. The thought pattern went something like this “this night could be my last, so I want to make sure I am awake as long as possible, so I will keep the radio on until I wake up, if I wake up.” I guess the radio was an easy distraction from the uncomfortable thoughts of passing away in my sleep.

Anyway that was in the past, now I am cured completely! I cannot tell you when these repetitive thoughts stopped or how, but I think it was when I had a serious car accident and I was in hospital for some time. I could have easily been killed in this car accident, but amazingly I had survived with a few minor fractures and my life!

When you look at death in the face it ceases to hold any power over you, then you realise that you have to make the most of life. Nobody knows when the Grim Reaper will come knocking, I for one don’t want to know! I think positivity is very important; it is what keeps me alive and interested in all the delights that life has to offer! Don’t worry I do have bad days as well and I am not 100% positive all of the time! I cannot think of any reason why positivity is bad, it doesn’t mean being unrealistic. Think about what you have to be grateful for, do the things that give you joy and pleasure, talk to and be around positive people, you are not alone; other people are going through the difficult emotions of living.

There is an opportunity inside everybody if you look deep enough, and being disabled is no exception to this rule. It can be a tool to teach others that you can still have a great life whatever limitations you have, with the right kind of perspective and motivation.

Having a trauma (emotional or physical), getting injured in any way, or becoming disabled in my eyes isn’t the end of the world, it is the beginning of a new one in which you can find new possibilities, new goals and meaning. Even if your physical condition is getting worse, your personal development doesn’t stop. Whatever your situation is, you have always got the choice, how to think about it, how to feel about it. It is always you who chooses.

I think there is a reason why we are all here living on this planet. From my experience and those of others I have opened my heart to the spiritual essence of who we really are. Don’t look at yourself or others as a disabled or abled person. We are disabled and we are not disabled, because our soul is free, whole and perfect.

Keep positive. Live long and prosper! Mayo“

I could share with you about Mayo’s illness and suggest you might want to make a donation to fighting the disease but I know that he would far prefer to know that he inspired you to change your experience of your life, that his story made you live more fully and joyfully that you had before you knew of him…

Today I was walking hoodless without an umbrella in the rain along the streets of London and felt the joy of being alive, of being able to walk, feel the rain and get wet, the joy of the city around me, noticing things along the way I’d been too busy rushing to notice before and it was wonderful!!!

Sending you love, light, laughter and the joy of being here now!

Helen Elizabeth

Helen’s Elizabeth Evans is the UK’s Premier Life Purpose Expert & Your Signature Brilliance Decoder. Her gift is opening you up to your unique brilliance and then showing you how to integrate it with your unique soul purpose in a practical and meaningful way. Her clients describe her as a powerful alchemist and pathfinder which is testimony to the impact working with her has on them and their lives. Connect with her at www.stepintoyourlight.com or via her Facebook page: Step Into your Light.