Don’t Blame the Teacher
What you see is your reflection
Do you have difficult people in your life? Those people who can really get you upset? Or, perhaps, are just an irritant?
Perfect.
You could call them your teachers. This might be one of those times where the problem is actually part of the solution. I know I had such a problem.
I am that I am.
Seems like a simple statement. “I Am That I Am” is what God told Moses, speaking through the Burning Bush. Well, that doesn’t solve any of my problems. I am that I am. What am I supposed to do with that?
When you stand in front of a mirror and, looking at the image of yourself in the mirror, you see that your hair is all messed up … do you take your comb and try to straighten the hair in the reflection? Bumping the comb up against the mirror? You can’t “correct” the reflection. The content of the image of the reflection is created by you and not by the mirror. You see what you see. That might apply to your image. You are what you are. These simple sentences can give us some insights into how teachers can show us aspects of ourselves.
I had an angry boss for a decade. He was a tyrant and cruel. And he was also my angel. A gift of this lifetime.
When the student is ready, a teacher will arrive.
He would trip my emotional triggers every day that I went into work. He could easily metaphorically push my buttons. The gift of this man was that he, my teacher, was reflecting me back to myself. Did that mean I was an angry man too? I certainly didn’t show it. I was a lighthearted, easygoing sort of guy. We were two totally different people. He couldn’t be a reflection of me. Until he was.
It wasn’t obvious for many years. His constant pestering of me eventually put me on a psychiatrist’s couch. And after a few years of counseling, we found it. I did have anger issues. Big anger issues. But they were all subconscious. I learned I had an immense amount of anger pent up within my subconscious. He was the reflection of what I had not resolved in MY subconscious. Subconscious? I could have gone my whole life and never discovered that. But he, as my angel, showed me aspects of myself that I was totally not aware of.
The really curious thing was that as I worked on cleaning up my unresolved anger, he no longer became my reflection. In other words, he was reflecting my anger back to me. Once I got my anger released out of my subconscious, I fell off his radar. He was no longer interested in giving me a hard time. He just quit bothering me. He had his own anger narrative running in him. He would pick out people who did have anger issues and he would pick on them.
When the student has learned the lesson, the teacher disappears.
Our triggers are our teachers. We can’t get triggered if we don’t have a corresponding emotional component within us. Everyone who can push your buttons is your teacher. Look within yourself for the emotional elements that you have not resolved. The teacher won’t quit teaching you until you have learned the lesson. Until when you have resolved the emotional component of yourself. Don’t avoid your teachers … learn from them.
Love You
Les
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