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Let’s face it, life is a challenge sometimes. We try our hardest to do the best we can, but sometimes still feel like we are not successful. We ALL have challenges in this life, regardless of how it looks from the “outside” perspective. The key is to learn and grow from our challenges and let them open our hearts to compassion and love instead of closing us off and keeping us entrenched in fear and doubt.
How do we look on the “bright side” when we feel like there isn’t one?
I have health challenges. I have written about them before. They are not something I am able to control, although I spent almost a decade trying to do so. In my controlling and ego-based mindset, I thought if I just ate a certain way, or didn’t eat certain things, or took the right combination of supplements, then I would feel better. You wouldn’t believe the hundreds of combinations I have tried over the past ten years!
What I have discovered though, is that the answers do not lie in controlling behaviors. For me, answers do not lie in pills to mask the symptoms. My answers lie within my heart and have always been there, I was just too afraid to look. The “bright-side” that we look for is the hope and love and connection to “Source” that only come to us through our hearts.
My body imbalances are here to help me open my heart to compassion and love. Let’s face it, all of our challenges are here to help us find our heart center and true nature.
So, do you let the circumstances in your life drive a wedge between you and the world? Do you embrace the fear and use it to keep you shrouded in the illusion of separation? Do you think that it is really you versus the world?
I know many people do feel this way. Life has beaten them up so badly that they feel that their choices have been taken away from them. They feel like life is “happening” to them, and they are a victim to the terrible circumstances that seemingly come at them, time and time again.
We are not victims though, and have never been victims. We are Divine expressions of love. We are beautiful, brilliant, powerful, loving, amazing, joyful, creative, (the list goes on!), but we are NOT victims. Nothing is happening to us that we haven’t called to us on some level to help us grow and move towards wholeness. The longer one thinks one is a victim, the longer it will take for them to move past the negative circumstances that continue to barrage them in this life.
Embracing this thought pattern leads to other thought patterns that are very far from the Divine being that we are. When we are victims we tend to judge others, lack compassion, lose hope, be ill or imbalanced, and forget that we are the powerful beings that we are! When we are in these thought patterns, we tend to think our circumstances are the worst–case of the “one-upper”, often heard saying “You think you have it bad, that’s nothing…I have much worse circumstances.”
When you are having a rough time, has anyone ever said, “It’s ok, it’s alright. It’s all gonna be alright. You are fine, you are just having a rough time.” Doesn’t it feel wonderful to have someone not judge you and just support and love you? Wouldn’t you want to do that for someone else? Instead of judging them and making them feel worse, wouldn’t you want to tell them you love them and that they are doing just fine in this game we call life?
Because, believe it or not, we ARE all doing just fine in this game called life. We are all finding our way back to our center and there is no wrong or right way to do it. We are growing and expanding, and remembering that love is the only answer-for ourselves, others and the world.
So I invite you to try to view your own circumstances through a different set of eyes. If you have been having a rough time, perhaps you can be gentle and nurturing towards yourself. I also invite you to do the same for the ones around you who find themselves in challenging situations. Compassion and love will go a long way towards bringing the joyful abundance into our lives that we so crave. Remember, you get what you send out. You attract to you what you are giving to others. Find a way towards love and letting go of judgment and control and you will find yourself flowing with the Divinity of your heart.
Even if you cannot hold that space for very long, make a conscious effort to show appreciation, gratitude, love, and compassion towards yourself and others. The more you do this, the better you will feel, and your life circumstances will reflect your efforts! Opening the heart is a process though, and it doesn’t happen overnight for most people because we are comfortable in our routines. The judgment, control and negative attitudes we have adopted are familiar to us.
But keep it up! My guess is, once you start flowing gratitude and love you will crave it. You will notice how you feel when you are embracing negative emotions over positive ones, and you will not like how you feel. You will be a witness, watching yourself and deciding how you would like to “show up.”
Many blessings to you all on your fabulous journeys!
Tobi’s personal recommendation for reading, “Oneness” by Rasha.
November 24th, 2009
Title: 30-min readings
Location: Tobi’s Littleton Office
Description: Special “fair day” rate
30 min-$40
Limited slots, first come-first served
Date: 11-21-2009
Start Time: 1:00 p.m.
End Time: 5:00 p.m.
November 11th, 2009