Right Here. Right Now.
It is You.
I know it sounds simple but You is where it all happens … for You.
Whether you are experiencing Heaven or Hell, it is through the “vehicle” of you that ALL of your experiences happen. To become more mindful of that can help you steer your life. What are you feeling … now? And why are you feeling what you are feeling?
When we avoid feeling some of the not-so-pleasant feelings, we are setting ourselves up for more discomfort later. Let’s break that down a bit deeper. When you feel feelings you don’t prefer, what you do then is setting up your future relationship with that feeling. To avoid some aspects of your feelings is how you add karma to your own psyche. Whatever you push down, as far as your own feelings, you are saving for later. Not only that, but you are increasing the polarization with that very feeling.
Early on in our life, we can get set up, or programmed, to have habitual re-actions to our environment. If you grew up in an emotionally intense household, you developed coping skills to help you navigate those aspects of your life. In other words, if there was a particularly intense emotion in your family of origin, you, as a child, developed a coping skill to help you navigate that. As a child. But now, you are an adult. You can bring a broader perspective to what was happening. You can see, often in hindsight, what the intention of your soul was, to have you incarnate into that particular dynamic.
For example, for myself, I incarnated into a strict religious household where every question had an “official” answer. As such, perhaps a deeper aspect of myself wanted to know the answers. I wanted to know the “why” of it. This didn’t happen overnight. In high school, we had the option of attending seminary class. There was a small building with classrooms right across the street from the high school. So, for one of my classes a day, I could walk across the street and attend a religious class for that period. In my senior year of high school, I was my seminary class president. The leader of the class, so to speak. That year, for my seminary class, my grades for the four quarters of my senior year were … A, A, F and F. I went from standing in front of the class as the class student president, to sitting at the back of the class thinking everything they were talking about was malarkey. In the middle of my senior year, I no longer wanted to just accept all of the answers. I didn’t want to just follow the mindset. I wanted to personally understand the meaning behind it all. I wanted to know the why of it all, from my personal perspective.
I could have blamed my upbringing on my strict religious upbringing. And to be clear, I am not saying their (the religious institution) principles were wrong. I can see now, through the lens of hindsight, that that environment pushed me to question everything at a deeper level. Since everything had an official answer, I wanted to question all the answers. This has served me very well. I am thankful for having the wool pulled over my eyes, so to speak.
When I had a tyrant of a boss, I could have blamed him for my difficulties. At the time, he certainly was a difficult challenge for me. But again in hindsight, I see clearly that he was a very powerful positive influence on me. Both while I was going through the difficulties, and now in hindsight, in both instances of then and now, it was me having the experience. It was myself, in both cases, that was experiencing the situation. In other words, right here, right now, you are deciding your future. You are deciding what everything means to you. This might be happening on automatic. Or unconsciously. But right here, right now, you can look at your life through a new lens. A new perspective.
I have come to realize that every challenge or difficulty I have lived through has given me a gift of sorts. To realize my life through that lens, that our life’s challenges also have a gift for us, then I can look at the challenges in my life that I am having right now. I can see that they too have a gift for me as well. That if I can reframe my perspective of whatever I am being challenged with, I can now see that the challenge itself is calling me to look at my life in a different way. To look for the gifts that the challenge is holding for me. How are the challenges calling us to grow our sense of self? To grow a new perspective?
If you pay attention to yourself, right here and right now, you hold the keys to your freedom. It will only be in this now, that you feel anything about your life. To be present in the storm itself can help you navigate it. What is your life calling you to do? To liberate yourself from your challenging circumstances? None of it is personal. The mechanism of karma itself is as indifferent as the mechanism of gravity. Take a metaphorical step back and look at your life from a broader point of view. There are gifts awaiting your discovery. All within yourself. Open your presents. Harvest the gifts of your challenges. Tis the season.
Love You
Les
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