You imagine that, because all the supposed knowledge you've got from your self improvement materials, books and CDs, you have already attained a certain level of spiritual development and power. Thus, you are now entitled to create your life experiences at will, or should be able to create your life the way you want it, more easily.
You do not understand how some people you judge undeserving, can manage quite well in their life, and sometimes far better than you who are supposed to be, according to yourself, a master capable of producing miracles, or at least fantastic results, almost immediately.
You even wonder why making all these efforts, why wasting your time learning these things, if there is not any sort of visible improvement in your life. Yes, that’s it. You’d like to measure your spiritual advancement with material, social or financial indicators such as the level of success you have, the amount of money in your bank account, the kind of home you live in, the car you drive, your relationships, etc.
To the eyes of other people, you want to be seen as a guru, the person who knows everything and has an answer for every situation. But, your frustration grows, more and more, when you realize that you are neither capable of demonstrating what you teach, nor experiencing yourself the life you describe to others.
Today, you have the feeling that some of your relationships which were seeing you as someone exceptional, are changing their mind about you, and are becoming reluctant to listen to you again.
You’d like, above anything else, demonstrate your power to their face, so that they change their mind about you and appreciate you again. Until they do, you'll feel guilty and unworthy.
If we go deeper in our investigations, we will discover that it’s only about a few people. And who knows, maybe it's one person, just only one, who makes you feel uncomfortable. Maybe some people around you appreciate what you have realized so far, but until this one recognizes your value, you will not be happy. Your frustration, therefore, increases again and again.
Are you wondering why you aren't experiencing the life you want for yourself and for all the persons you care about?
First, this question is wrong and not appropriate. Because when you know some truths about life and how the universe works, such a question should not be asked. It's like someone who wonders why it's dark in the room during a sunny day, while there is light outside. He forgets that he has just either to switch the light on, or open the windows to get light.
Anyway, to answer this question the way it is formulated, although it is pure nonsense, I’d say, you aren’t experiencing the life you want (a happy life) because you aren’t experiencing the life you want, period. The reverse is also true. You are experiencing the life you are experiencing (a unhappy life), because you are experiencing the life you are experiencing. This sounds like "Conversations with God" by N.D.Walsch!.
A bit tricky, isn’t it? But not really at all, when you look at it more closely. Why do you feel frustrated, powerless, or whatever the kind of feeling you experience in your life right now? The only reason you feel that way is because you feel that way, period!
You feel frustrated only because you feel frustrated, you feel angry because you feel angry, and you feel good because you feel good. You cannot expect feeling happy when the thoughts you are entertaining in your mind are negative. That would defy the natural laws of mind.
Your negative thoughts produce negative feelings, such as frustration, shame, resentment, anger, etc. And your positive thoughts produce feelings of the same nature. In life, you have only two choices. First, you live in a state of gratitude and appreciation for what you are and have now; second, you live with frustration, sadness, anger and resistance for what you want, but is not there yet. There is no other choice.
Life is like the wind. It blows in the direction it wants. You cannot predict it in advance or do anything about it. You have, but only two choices: to align yourself with the flow of life or resist it. In other words, you accept to follow the current, or swim against it.
Let’s go back to your question. As said earlier, this question does not make sense, if we know how the universe works. Because when we do, we become more humble, and only this humility before life can restore us to our true place in relationship with the Universe.
Therefore, instead of wondering why you are not experiencing the life you want, become humble before Life, turn this question around into its more appropriate and significant sense, for example:
Why aren’t you appreciating the life “life wants” for you and the persons you care about?
You see, many issues look like problems, but in reality they are not ones at all. That’s why, very often, they remain unresolved. You cannot solve any problem if you do not first identify its true origin and its root causes.
In front of any challenge or obstacle, take first the time to identify where the problem really resides. Because in your confusion, you can imagine that the problem is where or what it is not in reality. Turn around the situation, to find the true issue behind it. Do not rush to find the solution before you know the true problem, and you will discover the true problem, only by asking the right question, according to the knowledge you have about life, the universe and its laws.
Without that, you will waste all your time, beating the wall in front of you with your head, and not seeing the door largely open just two feet behind you.
Again, ask yourself the right question.
Why is your initial question a nonsense? Simply because, in relationship with life, the group words “you want” is wrong. Life works as it works, and nobody has any kind of power over it. Any affirmation contrary to that is pure lie and manipulation.
So, when you have a question in mind, analyse it deeply and ensure that it is right, both in its form and in its sense, according to what you know to be true.
The fact is that, right now, in this moment, you are experiencing Life, in its multiple forms. But, it is also evident that you are not appreciating it as you should, because in your mind, you desire something else .
So, if a question is to be asked, I mean a right one, according to what you know about the universe, it could be:
Why aren’t you appreciating what you are experiencing in your life now? Why aren’t you grateful for what Life has brought to you up to this moment?
That’s the true question which is to be asked, and which I think, makes more sense, doesn’t it?
Life is Infinite intelligence, Omnipresent, Omniscient and Omnipotent. Therefore, it knows better than us what is suitable to us. And according to that, it brings to us, moment to moment, what it choses, which is not necessarily what we want.
The contrary would mean that we have the hability to place orders to life and a power over it, which is false. Otherwise, we would be able to predict our own future, and avoid all obstacles that arise on our path everyday.
Don’t think, only one moment, that life is unfair, and that some people have more favour than others. Never believe that it is so. All the people you see around you, no exception, have their
personal challenges and everyone manages the best he can. Your problems may even be insignificant, compared to the difficulties others are experiencing.
In addition, don’t live with the illusion that the people you admire have no problems in their life. That’s a false perception about the universe also. If you hadn’t any problems, you would'nt surely be here, in this planet, any longer.
Some people may have nice surroundings, lots of money, relationships, power, nice homes, cars and all kind of stuff. However, none of them, I say none, is really as you imagine them to be: entirely fulfilled and happy. Even when they want you to believe that it is so, never agree.
Someone who is truly happy will never try to convince you that he is. Happiness emanates from him, and you can sense it. Money and stuff are good, but they do not represent an indicator of happiness, which is related to something abstract and different, the core of our being. Happiness has nothing to do with external things.
Faith and trust are the only things required from you by life. Remember that the universe loves you, even though this seems difficult to believe, when you consider some difficult circumstances you often find yourselve in. However, all you experience, no matter what, is for your highest good.
That's the truth.
Stay synchronized...
Monday, February 23, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Are you a cat or a mouse ?
People are generally divided into two categories. They are either mice or cats. But, it's possible to be both also, according to specific circumstances. For example, someone can be a cat in his family, with his wife and children, and be a super mouse at work, with his boss or colleagues.
To which category do you belong to ?
To know it, take the time to observe yourself in your daily life. How do you behave among your colleagues, or your friends, or in your family ? Are you for example always afraid of public speaking ? or do you experience difficulties to express your opinion during meetings or other circumstances ? Are you unease in official gatherings, or in front of your boss or any other personality ?
If your answer is yes, to these few questions, chances are that you are a mouse. However, there are lots of mice that force themselves to behave like cats in some circumstances, in order to prove to others and to themselves that they are different.
The problem is that, when they do so, they become aggressive or arrogant, because their attitude does not come naturally. By forcing themselves that way, they finish by hurting others around them, and their yesterday friends become today, their worse ennemies.
A mouse cannot become a cat, nor a cat become a mouse. They are different creatures with different and specific faculties. And each of them develops its own natural faculties in order to survive in life.
You will never see a mouse trying to become a cat because it is tired of being chased and devoured all the time, no. The only thing it can do is develop more and more its intelligence, its rapidity and fastness, to be able to escape mice permanent pursuits.
If you recognize yourself to be a mouse, instead of a cat, learn to do the same. Develop the faculties you already have, and express them when necessary. But first, accept yourself fully as you are and never try to be someone else. Never.
If you think you are afraid of public speaking for example, accept it and don't be ashamed of it. Then, develop something else, like your listening or written skills. Good listeners are very much appreciated, contrary to what people believe. Don't talk about writers...
You can also improve aspects of your life in which you have identified some weaknesses. But, as I said before, the first thing is to accept these weaknesses as such. You cannot improve anything that is not recognized first by yourself as being a weakness.
When this step is made, you can exercise yourself with small audience first, even with two people. Then, bit by bit, little by little and without forcing anything, improvment will follow, until you reach more important groups. The same applies to everything; exercise is the key.
To conclude, if you recognize yourself to be a mouse, accept it. Do not try to be a cat overnight. Instead, improve your own inherent faculties, to become the best mouse ever. Have you ever heard of Speedy Gonzalez, the fastest mouse of Mexico ?
I hope you understand what I mean...
Stay synchronized...
To which category do you belong to ?
To know it, take the time to observe yourself in your daily life. How do you behave among your colleagues, or your friends, or in your family ? Are you for example always afraid of public speaking ? or do you experience difficulties to express your opinion during meetings or other circumstances ? Are you unease in official gatherings, or in front of your boss or any other personality ?
If your answer is yes, to these few questions, chances are that you are a mouse. However, there are lots of mice that force themselves to behave like cats in some circumstances, in order to prove to others and to themselves that they are different.
The problem is that, when they do so, they become aggressive or arrogant, because their attitude does not come naturally. By forcing themselves that way, they finish by hurting others around them, and their yesterday friends become today, their worse ennemies.
A mouse cannot become a cat, nor a cat become a mouse. They are different creatures with different and specific faculties. And each of them develops its own natural faculties in order to survive in life.
You will never see a mouse trying to become a cat because it is tired of being chased and devoured all the time, no. The only thing it can do is develop more and more its intelligence, its rapidity and fastness, to be able to escape mice permanent pursuits.
If you recognize yourself to be a mouse, instead of a cat, learn to do the same. Develop the faculties you already have, and express them when necessary. But first, accept yourself fully as you are and never try to be someone else. Never.
If you think you are afraid of public speaking for example, accept it and don't be ashamed of it. Then, develop something else, like your listening or written skills. Good listeners are very much appreciated, contrary to what people believe. Don't talk about writers...
You can also improve aspects of your life in which you have identified some weaknesses. But, as I said before, the first thing is to accept these weaknesses as such. You cannot improve anything that is not recognized first by yourself as being a weakness.
When this step is made, you can exercise yourself with small audience first, even with two people. Then, bit by bit, little by little and without forcing anything, improvment will follow, until you reach more important groups. The same applies to everything; exercise is the key.
To conclude, if you recognize yourself to be a mouse, accept it. Do not try to be a cat overnight. Instead, improve your own inherent faculties, to become the best mouse ever. Have you ever heard of Speedy Gonzalez, the fastest mouse of Mexico ?
I hope you understand what I mean...
Stay synchronized...
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Chose your own beliefs
Generally, we behave according to what we have learned in the past from other people, our family, our parents, our friends, our society, our environment and so on, but rarelly from what we trully believe, or think to be true for ourselves.
As a result, what we experience in life becomes in alignment to social or traditional beliefs, and not to our true nature as individuals, or the core of our being.
Me, as individual, I have nothing to do with another individual. I have a personal focus on life, different from others's. Therefore, my reality shouldn't be the same as everybody's reality. I stand in life from a specific perspective that has nothing to do with the perspective from which other people stand in like.
That's why I must chose my own beliefs, and live according to them. As this has been stated by many people, the law of life is the law of belief. Your life is a mirror, a projection or a reflection of your beliefs. That's why in order to change your life, you must change your beliefs, not the outer world.
You cannot remove something on your face from the mirror you have in hand, no. The mirror just reflects what you have on your face, so that you decide to remove it or not. In the same way, you cannot extinguish fire in a house by fighting against the smoke outside the house, no. You do it by extinguishing the fire itself, in the house. The smoke is just a signal for you that your house is burning, so that you take action.
You see, you must change your beliefs, in order to change your current experiences. Let's say for example that you think you are stuck in some difficulty. You will remain stuck in this difficulty as long as you will believe that you are stuck.
If you think you have not enough of something, your reality will be the same as long as you do not change your mind about it; and this is true for everything you experience in your life. You think like this, because your environment is doing the same, according to what their physical senses have been telling them over and over.
Things have been working like that for centuries. But today, you can decide to chose your own beliefs, according to what you want to be true for yourself, and no longer live from the opinion of the mass.
For example, if it is about money, what you have just to do is believe that money if flowing to you abundantly. Believe it, no matter what your senses or people suggest to you. Do it over and over, even though nothing happens, believe it anyway, because it is your own choice.
If it is about health, job, promotion, relationship or whatever, do the same. Your beliefs are yours and they are personal. Live from them, always, and see them be reflected in your experiences.
Stay synchronized...
As a result, what we experience in life becomes in alignment to social or traditional beliefs, and not to our true nature as individuals, or the core of our being.
Me, as individual, I have nothing to do with another individual. I have a personal focus on life, different from others's. Therefore, my reality shouldn't be the same as everybody's reality. I stand in life from a specific perspective that has nothing to do with the perspective from which other people stand in like.
That's why I must chose my own beliefs, and live according to them. As this has been stated by many people, the law of life is the law of belief. Your life is a mirror, a projection or a reflection of your beliefs. That's why in order to change your life, you must change your beliefs, not the outer world.
You cannot remove something on your face from the mirror you have in hand, no. The mirror just reflects what you have on your face, so that you decide to remove it or not. In the same way, you cannot extinguish fire in a house by fighting against the smoke outside the house, no. You do it by extinguishing the fire itself, in the house. The smoke is just a signal for you that your house is burning, so that you take action.
You see, you must change your beliefs, in order to change your current experiences. Let's say for example that you think you are stuck in some difficulty. You will remain stuck in this difficulty as long as you will believe that you are stuck.
If you think you have not enough of something, your reality will be the same as long as you do not change your mind about it; and this is true for everything you experience in your life. You think like this, because your environment is doing the same, according to what their physical senses have been telling them over and over.
Things have been working like that for centuries. But today, you can decide to chose your own beliefs, according to what you want to be true for yourself, and no longer live from the opinion of the mass.
For example, if it is about money, what you have just to do is believe that money if flowing to you abundantly. Believe it, no matter what your senses or people suggest to you. Do it over and over, even though nothing happens, believe it anyway, because it is your own choice.
If it is about health, job, promotion, relationship or whatever, do the same. Your beliefs are yours and they are personal. Live from them, always, and see them be reflected in your experiences.
Stay synchronized...
Decide to not suffer anymore
Which is better, to suffer or not suffer ?
In my opinion, the second option is far better than the first. Because I notice that When I am angry, worried, afraid, or anxious about something, I feel bad inside of me and experience lot of suffering at the same time.
When I am happy about something, I feel good and delighted. Why is that ? and what that means ?
As many people have already found, all feelings are inside of us, good and bad, positive and negative. Feelings do not come from the outside, external events and circumstances are only pretexts for us to bring dormant feelings in us to life. But, they always have been, are always, and will always be there, in us.
The good news is that, we have the choice. Yes, no matter what happens to us, we have the choice to suffer or not. I am not talking about happiness here. I am talking about deciding not to suffer anymore, no matter what may happens to us.
There is one simple reason to that. When you experience something "bad", then get angry, worried, sad, or whatever. Do you, through those reactions, change anything to what is ? I don't think so. Instead, you suffer in your heart and your body, which is by the way, the source of many of your diseases.
However, when you decide to react differently, things may not change either, but at least, your health will be safe and you will not feel bad, or suffer uselessly. When you do that, chances are that you will experience less resistance about what is and feel good, which is far better that feeling bad.
The thing to remember therefore is this : all feelings are inside of you, they do not come from outside. When you know that, you chose the ones you want to experience now, instead of being driven by automatic feelings and reactions coming from you and often created by external events and circumstances .
Refuse to be a puppet. Chose, no matter what, to not suffer again, and be free !
Stay synchronized...
In my opinion, the second option is far better than the first. Because I notice that When I am angry, worried, afraid, or anxious about something, I feel bad inside of me and experience lot of suffering at the same time.
When I am happy about something, I feel good and delighted. Why is that ? and what that means ?
As many people have already found, all feelings are inside of us, good and bad, positive and negative. Feelings do not come from the outside, external events and circumstances are only pretexts for us to bring dormant feelings in us to life. But, they always have been, are always, and will always be there, in us.
The good news is that, we have the choice. Yes, no matter what happens to us, we have the choice to suffer or not. I am not talking about happiness here. I am talking about deciding not to suffer anymore, no matter what may happens to us.
There is one simple reason to that. When you experience something "bad", then get angry, worried, sad, or whatever. Do you, through those reactions, change anything to what is ? I don't think so. Instead, you suffer in your heart and your body, which is by the way, the source of many of your diseases.
However, when you decide to react differently, things may not change either, but at least, your health will be safe and you will not feel bad, or suffer uselessly. When you do that, chances are that you will experience less resistance about what is and feel good, which is far better that feeling bad.
The thing to remember therefore is this : all feelings are inside of you, they do not come from outside. When you know that, you chose the ones you want to experience now, instead of being driven by automatic feelings and reactions coming from you and often created by external events and circumstances .
Refuse to be a puppet. Chose, no matter what, to not suffer again, and be free !
Stay synchronized...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Nothing is an answer
God, Life, the Universe or whatever you call it, answers all the time. There is not any single request or prayer that has not ever been answered to you. Never. The truth is, most of the time if not always, you refuse the answer and resist it. Not receiving anything or what we want after a prayer is, in fact, receiving something : nothing !
Absolutely. When nothing is what is, it is exactly what life, God or the Universe wants. But, we disagree with Life or God, and resist the answer given to us. Acting this way is like paddling against the current in a river, or the flow of life. Nevertheless, the answer is there, standing before you, and there is nothing you can do about it.
The only thing to do is accept it, love it, be grateful for it. Because Life's Infinite Wisdom that brought it to you, knows why. If you refuse and resist it, you will never be free. Accept it, embrace it, go with the flow of life, and joy will be yours.
Look at a leaf, still suspended at a branch of a tree. It is happy to be there, playing with the wind and floating in the air from one side to another. Then, while playing, it is detached from the branch by the wind, and thrown onto the surface on the river.
What's the reaction of the leaf ? Do you think it resists its new situation ? Not at all. Instead, it starts floating joyously and just follows the course of the river, without any regret whatsoever. Later, in its course on the river, something will stop it for a moment or even for days, until the current releases it and allows it to float again.
You see, even when you think you have received nothing, it only because you refuse what is, which is what you have exactly in your present moment, now. Your present situation or circumstance is your gift. Receive it joyously and be grateful.
You will say, "but there is nothing special in this moment I am living". How do you know ? Or should I ask as Byron katie in "The Work" : Is it true ? Can you absolutely know that it is true ?
We have learned that human being has no clue about what is happening, because he is aware of only 25 bits of informations per second when, in reality, 25 millions are coming to him every split second !
But you look with your physical eyes, and conclude that nothing happens to you in this moment; that you aren't receiving anything now. How do you know ? Aren't you receiving life in this very moment ? What is more important than that ?
Look around you now, in this moment, not the moment to come. What do you see, hear, touch, taste or smell ? That's your gift. Appreciate and be grateful for it. Do not live your life randomly, being in the past, the present and the future at the same time.
Human being have been wise enough to devide time in seconds, minutes and hours. But they are not able to live their life the same way, which means decide to make this seconds the best you can; this minute the best you can, and this hour the best you can.
If you live intensily today and die tomorrow, you will have lived better than someone who lived longer, but didn't filled every moment of his life with joy, happiness, appreciation and gratitude.
A good life cannot be evaluated in its length, but in its intensity. Fill every moment you are given with joy and happiness and be grateful for the luck and opportunity you have of being here.
Stay synchronized...
Absolutely. When nothing is what is, it is exactly what life, God or the Universe wants. But, we disagree with Life or God, and resist the answer given to us. Acting this way is like paddling against the current in a river, or the flow of life. Nevertheless, the answer is there, standing before you, and there is nothing you can do about it.
The only thing to do is accept it, love it, be grateful for it. Because Life's Infinite Wisdom that brought it to you, knows why. If you refuse and resist it, you will never be free. Accept it, embrace it, go with the flow of life, and joy will be yours.
Look at a leaf, still suspended at a branch of a tree. It is happy to be there, playing with the wind and floating in the air from one side to another. Then, while playing, it is detached from the branch by the wind, and thrown onto the surface on the river.
What's the reaction of the leaf ? Do you think it resists its new situation ? Not at all. Instead, it starts floating joyously and just follows the course of the river, without any regret whatsoever. Later, in its course on the river, something will stop it for a moment or even for days, until the current releases it and allows it to float again.
You see, even when you think you have received nothing, it only because you refuse what is, which is what you have exactly in your present moment, now. Your present situation or circumstance is your gift. Receive it joyously and be grateful.
You will say, "but there is nothing special in this moment I am living". How do you know ? Or should I ask as Byron katie in "The Work" : Is it true ? Can you absolutely know that it is true ?
We have learned that human being has no clue about what is happening, because he is aware of only 25 bits of informations per second when, in reality, 25 millions are coming to him every split second !
But you look with your physical eyes, and conclude that nothing happens to you in this moment; that you aren't receiving anything now. How do you know ? Aren't you receiving life in this very moment ? What is more important than that ?
Look around you now, in this moment, not the moment to come. What do you see, hear, touch, taste or smell ? That's your gift. Appreciate and be grateful for it. Do not live your life randomly, being in the past, the present and the future at the same time.
Human being have been wise enough to devide time in seconds, minutes and hours. But they are not able to live their life the same way, which means decide to make this seconds the best you can; this minute the best you can, and this hour the best you can.
If you live intensily today and die tomorrow, you will have lived better than someone who lived longer, but didn't filled every moment of his life with joy, happiness, appreciation and gratitude.
A good life cannot be evaluated in its length, but in its intensity. Fill every moment you are given with joy and happiness and be grateful for the luck and opportunity you have of being here.
Stay synchronized...
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Escape from the mind web
Today, we come back again to a subject we discussed yesterday and the day before. This subject is the web we wrap ourselves in, everyone of us, without exception. You know, human mind is like a spider web whose threads are made of all our troubles, problems and challenges in life that cause doubts, worries and fears in us all the time.
We said that when the fly gets caught in the web, the solution is not to resist and attempt hardly to escape from the web. This is useless, because the more it tries, the more trapped it gets. The same thing applies to human being when being trapped in one or many difficult situations. There is no solution in anger, worry, frustration or fear.
Because the more you engage yourself in these negative attitudes, the more opaque and dark your view becomes. What to do then ?
As already suggested, one part of the solution is to relax and become still. In fact, just like the fly, you have no choice at all. Whatever it does, it will remain trapped in the web, as you will be in your mind.
Another part of the solution is to recognize that you have not the power to escape by yourself, and to surrender to something greater than you, a power which is in you that knows everything and can do anything.
If the fly stops struggling and becomes still, chances are that in time, its body would become a little bit heavy, be droped from the threads that maintain it prisoner and get free. Unfortunatly, the fly cannot think this way.
In the case of human being, things are a little bit different. Man is not physically prisoner, but mentally, because he thinks. The thoughts he helds in his mind are the roots of all his troubles. When he struggles and resists against the threats (thoughts) of his mind related to his problems, this becomes an attack, and attack implies separation. You would not attack your Self if you knew that it is you. No.
In a word, when you resist something, that means you think it is separate from you. But it is not. Nothing is separate from you. You are everything around you, no exception, even if you don't think so. But, because you don't know it or believe it, you attack it by resisting and struggling against it.
But the truth is, nothing is separate from you. Nothing. We are all One, and resisting against something is resisting against yourself. That's why you suffer, because in your resistance you are attacking your own Self, and this attack is a denyal of the love which is due to yourself.
When you remember that we are all One, including everybody, everything and every circumstance, that Life loves you and is never against you, that everything that happens to you is for your highest good, you realize that the only relationship you must have with Life is the one of love and gratitude, instead of resistance and struggle.
When you reach this point, Life, Love, God, All That Is, supports you. All the threads that kept you captive are transformed into love and you are free. You are here to come back to Yourself to Love, which is who you really are.
Be grateful, therefore, for anything that comes your way, because it is part of You...
Stay synchronized...
We said that when the fly gets caught in the web, the solution is not to resist and attempt hardly to escape from the web. This is useless, because the more it tries, the more trapped it gets. The same thing applies to human being when being trapped in one or many difficult situations. There is no solution in anger, worry, frustration or fear.
Because the more you engage yourself in these negative attitudes, the more opaque and dark your view becomes. What to do then ?
As already suggested, one part of the solution is to relax and become still. In fact, just like the fly, you have no choice at all. Whatever it does, it will remain trapped in the web, as you will be in your mind.
Another part of the solution is to recognize that you have not the power to escape by yourself, and to surrender to something greater than you, a power which is in you that knows everything and can do anything.
If the fly stops struggling and becomes still, chances are that in time, its body would become a little bit heavy, be droped from the threads that maintain it prisoner and get free. Unfortunatly, the fly cannot think this way.
In the case of human being, things are a little bit different. Man is not physically prisoner, but mentally, because he thinks. The thoughts he helds in his mind are the roots of all his troubles. When he struggles and resists against the threats (thoughts) of his mind related to his problems, this becomes an attack, and attack implies separation. You would not attack your Self if you knew that it is you. No.
In a word, when you resist something, that means you think it is separate from you. But it is not. Nothing is separate from you. You are everything around you, no exception, even if you don't think so. But, because you don't know it or believe it, you attack it by resisting and struggling against it.
But the truth is, nothing is separate from you. Nothing. We are all One, and resisting against something is resisting against yourself. That's why you suffer, because in your resistance you are attacking your own Self, and this attack is a denyal of the love which is due to yourself.
When you remember that we are all One, including everybody, everything and every circumstance, that Life loves you and is never against you, that everything that happens to you is for your highest good, you realize that the only relationship you must have with Life is the one of love and gratitude, instead of resistance and struggle.
When you reach this point, Life, Love, God, All That Is, supports you. All the threads that kept you captive are transformed into love and you are free. You are here to come back to Yourself to Love, which is who you really are.
Be grateful, therefore, for anything that comes your way, because it is part of You...
Stay synchronized...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Savour every moment of your life
Life is a gift, the most precious of all gifts, from which everything else proceeds. Without life, you do not exist and, if you do not exist, there is nothingness.
But, most of the time, we neglect this precious gift, because we are lost in the grand scheme of life with its challenges, obstacles and all kind of troubles at the origin of our doubts, worries, fears, etc.
We are engaged in a pursuit that never stops, until we die and hand over to others behind us. But if we could stop just a moment, and be conscious of the chance we have right now, just for being alive, things would be different for many.
They would savour every moment they have, and appreciate this blessed gift we call life. People live as though they are their body, which they think is eternal. Death, physical death, is always for someone else, not for us. If they could know when their turn would come, they would change their mind about life, then be grateful and appreciate it more. Things they neglect now would have another signification and another meaning.
To live is like walking in a cloudy day, or in the dark, without an idea of what stands before you. Then, as you make your next step, you fall suddenly into a precipice. You never know what is before you in life. Never.
Therefore, before you fall, stop just where you are and appreciate whatever is in this moment, and be grateful for this opportunity you have of being there. Do you know why ? Because in this very moment, someone like you, has just left the show.
Savour every breath in, and every breath out, now and then. Forget anything else. That is, to live...
Stay synchronized...
But, most of the time, we neglect this precious gift, because we are lost in the grand scheme of life with its challenges, obstacles and all kind of troubles at the origin of our doubts, worries, fears, etc.
We are engaged in a pursuit that never stops, until we die and hand over to others behind us. But if we could stop just a moment, and be conscious of the chance we have right now, just for being alive, things would be different for many.
They would savour every moment they have, and appreciate this blessed gift we call life. People live as though they are their body, which they think is eternal. Death, physical death, is always for someone else, not for us. If they could know when their turn would come, they would change their mind about life, then be grateful and appreciate it more. Things they neglect now would have another signification and another meaning.
To live is like walking in a cloudy day, or in the dark, without an idea of what stands before you. Then, as you make your next step, you fall suddenly into a precipice. You never know what is before you in life. Never.
Therefore, before you fall, stop just where you are and appreciate whatever is in this moment, and be grateful for this opportunity you have of being there. Do you know why ? Because in this very moment, someone like you, has just left the show.
Savour every breath in, and every breath out, now and then. Forget anything else. That is, to live...
Stay synchronized...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Releasing resistance
Yesterday, we've been discussing about resistance we create and wrap ourselves in, whenever we struggle with what is, that we do not like, and attempt hardly to escape from it. And, to illustrate this, we evoked the image of a fly trapped in a spider web and trying desperately and unsuccessfully to escape from it.
The web, as we said, is the representation of any kind of problem we put ourselves in, consciously or unconsciously and for which, in the moment, we have no solution in view, no way out. What we do very often is resisting and trying hardly, like a fly, to escape from it. But the more we try, the more tied we get in the web of our problem.
The wise thing to do, instead of struggling and resisting like a fly in the web, is to immerse ourselves completely and lovingly into the situation, be silent, still and let go entirely. When you achieve this state of total abandonment and nothingness, you become resistant free. Yes. You must become nothing in order to release your resistance.
When you oppose yourself to the situation and struggle, you want to prove to yourself that you are something you are not. And, because of trying, you activate resistance in you that maintains you captive in its web.
Your situation, whatever it is, is always twofold : one side you like, and another you dislike and resist. Generally, we focus on the side we dislike and try to change it directly. But the more we try, the more resistance we create and the more strength it gets. At the end, nothing changes at all and things become even worse.
Nevertheless, there is a solution to this issue. It consists in completely forgetting what we dislike, and focusing only on the other side, which is evidently what we prefer. We must realize that our attention on anything is what creates and perpetuates what we focus on. Removing our attention from something literally disintegrates it.
Therefore, refuse to face the situation by completely removing your attention from it. Let go of your pride and let a power far greater than you to handle the situation, whatever it may be, by focusing only on what you'd prefer, which is its opposite side.
Nothing is above this power which is in you. And the only thing that prevents it from working is you, when you try to be in charge and the doer. The only thing that is required from you, to activate it is giving up struggle and letting go. Then, turn all your attention on what you want or prefer, be grateful, appreciate, love with all your heart.
Why ?
In order to really understand and integrate the necessity for you to let go of your struggle and replace it by your gratitude, faith and trust to your Higher Self, you must start from the following premises :
1- Your Higher Self, or God, loves you unconditionally.
2- Everything that happens to you is for your highest good. Everything.
3-Because every moment and in every situation, you are given the opportunity to
chose what you prefer and manifest it. Always.
4- If you don't know why or how, God does.
5- Let go of your struggle once and for all
6- You attention on what you prefer is the key
7- Have faith, be grateful, appreciate and love
Always, and every time, have these premises in your mind. Remember to let go of any struggle by removing your attention from what you do not want. Then, put it only on what you want with gratitude, appreciation, love and faith.
Stay synchronized...
The web, as we said, is the representation of any kind of problem we put ourselves in, consciously or unconsciously and for which, in the moment, we have no solution in view, no way out. What we do very often is resisting and trying hardly, like a fly, to escape from it. But the more we try, the more tied we get in the web of our problem.
The wise thing to do, instead of struggling and resisting like a fly in the web, is to immerse ourselves completely and lovingly into the situation, be silent, still and let go entirely. When you achieve this state of total abandonment and nothingness, you become resistant free. Yes. You must become nothing in order to release your resistance.
When you oppose yourself to the situation and struggle, you want to prove to yourself that you are something you are not. And, because of trying, you activate resistance in you that maintains you captive in its web.
Your situation, whatever it is, is always twofold : one side you like, and another you dislike and resist. Generally, we focus on the side we dislike and try to change it directly. But the more we try, the more resistance we create and the more strength it gets. At the end, nothing changes at all and things become even worse.
Nevertheless, there is a solution to this issue. It consists in completely forgetting what we dislike, and focusing only on the other side, which is evidently what we prefer. We must realize that our attention on anything is what creates and perpetuates what we focus on. Removing our attention from something literally disintegrates it.
Therefore, refuse to face the situation by completely removing your attention from it. Let go of your pride and let a power far greater than you to handle the situation, whatever it may be, by focusing only on what you'd prefer, which is its opposite side.
Nothing is above this power which is in you. And the only thing that prevents it from working is you, when you try to be in charge and the doer. The only thing that is required from you, to activate it is giving up struggle and letting go. Then, turn all your attention on what you want or prefer, be grateful, appreciate, love with all your heart.
Why ?
In order to really understand and integrate the necessity for you to let go of your struggle and replace it by your gratitude, faith and trust to your Higher Self, you must start from the following premises :
1- Your Higher Self, or God, loves you unconditionally.
2- Everything that happens to you is for your highest good. Everything.
3-Because every moment and in every situation, you are given the opportunity to
chose what you prefer and manifest it. Always.
4- If you don't know why or how, God does.
5- Let go of your struggle once and for all
6- You attention on what you prefer is the key
7- Have faith, be grateful, appreciate and love
Always, and every time, have these premises in your mind. Remember to let go of any struggle by removing your attention from what you do not want. Then, put it only on what you want with gratitude, appreciation, love and faith.
Stay synchronized...
Monday, February 2, 2009
Until you embrace,appreciate and love what is, it will just stay there
Have you ever seen a fly trapped in a spider web ? have you ? If yes, what have you noticed ?
Haven't you observed that the more it struggles and attempts hardly to escape from the web, the more strongly trapped it becomes ?
Yes, that's it. And it is like that with us, also. Every time you are confronted with some difficult issue, for example in your relationship, your work, family, business or finances and try hardly to fight against it and to push it away, you create a great resistance. And the more hardly you try, the more resistance you create, to such an extent that the way out seems almost impossible.
You have probably heard that "what you resist persists". That's true. Instead of resisting to what you experience and do not like in your life, be quite, silent and still. Totally, dismiss any form of resistance that may arise from you. Look, listen and appreciate whatever it is there that frightens or disgusts you. Know that everything that comes to you brings something with the purpose to teach or heal you.
Don't escape or fear. If you do not know what it is, ask for guidance to your Higher Self, it will help you. Until you accept what it is and learn the lesson, what you resist will not leave you. It will stay there. Until you love and accept fully what is there, it will not go away.
The only thing you have to do is give up struggle and resistance. Then embrace, love, appreciate whatever it is there, in order to learn from it get and receive your gift. Otherwise, your struggle will never stop and you will stay in captivity forever.
Stay synchronized...
Haven't you observed that the more it struggles and attempts hardly to escape from the web, the more strongly trapped it becomes ?
Yes, that's it. And it is like that with us, also. Every time you are confronted with some difficult issue, for example in your relationship, your work, family, business or finances and try hardly to fight against it and to push it away, you create a great resistance. And the more hardly you try, the more resistance you create, to such an extent that the way out seems almost impossible.
You have probably heard that "what you resist persists". That's true. Instead of resisting to what you experience and do not like in your life, be quite, silent and still. Totally, dismiss any form of resistance that may arise from you. Look, listen and appreciate whatever it is there that frightens or disgusts you. Know that everything that comes to you brings something with the purpose to teach or heal you.
Don't escape or fear. If you do not know what it is, ask for guidance to your Higher Self, it will help you. Until you accept what it is and learn the lesson, what you resist will not leave you. It will stay there. Until you love and accept fully what is there, it will not go away.
The only thing you have to do is give up struggle and resistance. Then embrace, love, appreciate whatever it is there, in order to learn from it get and receive your gift. Otherwise, your struggle will never stop and you will stay in captivity forever.
Stay synchronized...
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