Life sometimes presents us with challenges that seem insurmountable. We feel like we’re facing difficult tests that require just that little too much of us. We wonder where we’ll find the strength to do what needs to get done - to be who we need to be - in order to rise to this challenge. Some people face this through a crisis in health, others through financial disasters, yet others face crises in relationships, or through suffering existential angst. In these moments we are confronted with ourselves head on. All of our weaknesses and vulnerabilities show themselves and become hard to ignore. Our reactive responses can become even more reactive. Those inner whisperings of the unloving kind, want to reveal themselves in their full glory, and they will get that chance if we allow ourselves to stay in automatic reaction. These challenges really do have an energy of ‘the test’ about them. And indeed they are powerful tests. The difference is, there is no pass or fail. There is no, this is the right way, and this is the wrong way. There is only: ‘Does this reaction serve you? Does it soothe you? Does this bring you to peaceful resolution?’ The questions are asked with a loving interest in our answers, not with a waiting chastisement or deserved punishment. Continue Reading wp.me/p3r8My-bB
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:53:39 +0000
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