Life without any problem is just like a match without an opposite team! You cannot even practice without an opponent. Similarly, problems are an integral part of life. Suppose, you get an opportunity to play against a great team, don't you feel proud when your opponent is stronger. In such a situation, you make the best use of the opportunity, put all your resources together, manifest your hidden potential and play the game to the best of your ability. When you face problems in your life, first accept them and see them as opportunities to unearth your hidden strength. If you accept a problem, you will also find the strength to resolve it!
Just like you prepare to meet your opponent in a cricket match, prepare to first accept things that are not in your control. By accepting a situation, you are not surrendering to it, but creating avenues to tide over it. A problem may affect you in different ways. For instance, when a person's eyesight is diminishing and he comes to know that he will soon turn blind, the news will affect him in two ways. At the first level, he will have to deal with practical challenges of moving about, reading, seeing, people and watching TV, and at the second level, he will have to deal with its psychological impact.
The practical part of the problem will consume only 25 percent of the individual's energy, whereas the psychological aspect will take up at least 75 percent of the individual's mind-space. He will spend more time worrying about his present and future and as a result, he will not be able to concentrate on his work; enjoy delicious food; listen to melodious music. If the person accepts that he is turning blind, the main psychological enemy who consumes major part of the energy will no longer exist. Your full potential will be available to you to overcome the situation and even sort out your problem.
Everybody faces some kind of setback, crisis or difficulty in life. The more you dwell on it, the more it tends to overpower to you. The more you talk about it, the more overwhelmed you feel. Often people tend to think, "Why is this happening to me? What did I do to deserve a life like this? Why did he do this to me?" Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, a person must focus on 'what should be done next?' This would help the mind free itself from negativity and to search for solutions to the problem while objectively analysing reasons to prevent its recurrence.
There is another approach to face a problem that seems to have no solution. You have to understand that you are facing your prarabdha, your karma from a previous life, and your karmic debt in this life is reducing. This thought will give you some consolation to carry on, knowing that however difficult the situation may be - it will come to pass. According to the theory of causation, all our experiences are the results of sum total of all our previous and present actions only.
If you accept the problem and ask the Almighty to give you the strength to bear it, you may be able to get over the crisis without much ado.
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