Everything we experience....everything we encounter...in this lifetime, is simply an Opportunity to Learn and Grow. So that being said, a Failure or mistake is actually just another opportunity for growth and re-evaluation. I happen to believe this with my whole heart. In the past, I played the victim role and now I accept responsibility for wherever I am at in life...good, bad or otherwise. If I walk around looking upset or being miserable, it is because I am choosing to allow those emotions to run my experience. If I allow other people's moods, choices or behavior to cause my own mood to change, or cause me to make bad choices or even behave badly, then I would be doing the Opposite of taking personal responsibility. I would be playing victim. Earlier this week, I had plans with someone. I had 2 choices as I made my plans with this person. Choice number one involved having my own vehicle and meeting them wherever we were going. Choice number two involved them picking me up. I made the choice to be picked up... So when circumstances changed and no one informed me, I was with no vehicle and no plans. I was unhappy at first and I did let the emotions get to me for a a while. I am human and so I allowed that human reaction to take over. Then I felt the difference...because I don't live like this anymore and so it felt really different from my usual feelings of peace and comfort. I decided to make the most of the changes and enjoy the weather...enjoy my son...enjoy the beach and the sunshine and the serenity of not being out in stores and in traffic and using gasoline. I sat in the sun and felt the warmth melt away my frustrations and help cure my exzema on my skin. I talked to a friend on the phone and just let my mind leave my worries as I shared in their thoughts. I reached out...I snuggled my child. I smelled the flowers. I cleaned the house. These small gestures turned my mood around and I found that time takes away disappointments. we must release...release them.
My HOPE for the future is to one day live in a world where the SCHOOLS we send our children to do not just incorporate some "character-building" along the way as they pump youngsters full of worldly facts and figures. I dream that SCHOOL will be FOR the purpose OF building character and instructing people how to BELIEVE THEY ARE THE CREATORS OF THEIR LIVES.
Until the day when we live in such a society, I will stand on the sidelines and I will say it...I will share and encourage and believe and devote myself to the cause of advancing PERSONAL POWER for every man, woman and child. I want to end the DREAM of life as we know it now and see every person embrace a NEW DREAM...a dream with no dollar bills, bank institutions, Rich and poor dynamics (duality at it's worst), no hunger and no fear. There is no need to live in fear as a society. We truly ARE all connected. What I think and feel and believe is happening to everyone, not just myself and so I cannot, CANNOT...afford to allow myself to simmer in anger and frustration or WALLOW in self-pity of all sorts! If I love, then I increase the love vibration on the planet. If I smile, then I send the ripple of happiness and joy that echoes through the valley and reverberates off the mountains...it causes a wave along the water....it tickles the ear and the breeze blows through the trees...because I smiled. All because I FELT JOY. Did you feel it? Have you ever just felt joy for no reason and with no cause? Perhaps someone or some group of someones was working very hard to send that LOVE TO YOU! Send it back! Return the favor and keep that loving energy flowing around the world. The fastest way to get out of "stinkin' thinkin' " is to think of OTHERS and what THEY are going through or experiencing. We are TOO BIASED to help ourselves because we are HARD on ourselves. It is so much easier to be compassionate on someone else when they are struggling. Just calmly meditate, relax and visualize that other person smiling and then you will smile. Feel them healing if they are sick and you will heal. See unexpected gifts or whatever they need, just spontaneously coming to them and them being happy as they receive. Feel the sensation of a warm hug. When you start to feel lifted...send that energy back out to the universe to share in it. If every person did this, we could heal the world as we know it and end sickness forever.
Lilac
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