12 Things obstacles tell you

The universe presents situations for different reasons. You choose how to view and react to each event that unfolds. Consider these twelve possible answers to the query, "what are obstacles telling you?

1) Review the path you are on (for it no longer serves you).

2) Recognize fear is the root cause of perceiving an obstacle.

3) Prepare to be disillusioned.

4) Stand back and revise your thought process.

5) Confront your emotional demons.

6) Revisit your values and goals.

7) See a stepping stone to an unforseen, beneficial situation.

8) Redefine "progress" and "success."

9) Accept yourself as you are and inner harmony that is.

10) Re-examine the underlying nature of the question.

11) Let go of the insatiable external quest for answers.

12) Stop living in the past or future. Just be in the now.

Comments

[rummuser]

Wonderful post. These are invaluable tools to use to live a more productive and less stressful life.

[Liara Covert]

rummuser, obstacles are multi-facited phenomena. Something that might seem harmful to you, could be healing for someone else. Or something which might hurt now, could be healing later. To live in peace and is to know everything sorts itself out in its own way.

[Mama Zen]

Just what I needed this morning!

[Jannie Funster]

I am reborn from this post.

Actually I became reborn last night by letting go of fear in my music, but this only reinforces my path.

Thanks.

[C. Om]

Excellent tools for contemplation. I can see in hindsight how some of the biggest obstacles in my life were there for me to grow and become larger than the situation. Being in the moment is great for perspective as well. Thank you!

[Liara Covert]

Mama Zen, inner peace is found as a person discerns that questions always draw him back to inner truhs. Human beings meander from truth more than they realize. Your core being always offers key answers at a given moment.

[Liara Covert]

Jannie, every moment, obstacles remind you to stop focusing on future possibilities or past perceptions. That is, you are in the process of relearning to focus on your innate talent and where it has brought you in the now. If you hold firm to "the past", "expectations", "lies", "issues" , then release is postponed. Anger may also follow destructive means to create the release required.

[Liara Covert]

C.Om, people are often taught to base personal acceptance upon external views over and above their own personal values. Life obstacles are silently prodding you to let go of those things you believe contribute to your identity. You gradually stop defining yourself as you were.

[Alexys Fairfield]

Hi Liara,

I would add that obstacles beg us to stop, look, listen and wake up. We can't live with them, but we can't live without them.

[Liara Covert]

Alexys, you make a valid point. The trick is learning what to discern. What is it you are missing of key importance in a given situation? Is it a character flaw? Obstacles draw attention to what you are missing. How you interpret is up to you. Obstacles will teach what you are ready to learn.

[Mark Salinas]

12) Stop living in the past or future. Just be in the now.

I am trying so hard..a major challenge!

[Liara Covert]

Mark, sometimes, permitting the mind to wander through different perceptions of time enables you to collect with information you require to live more fully in the present. That is, exploring your own observations of experiences in the perceived past or future, shows how stepping back actually increases awareness of who you are and always have been. At such a revelation, your sense of time changes completely. Past and future dissolve and you experience presence.

[Mark Salinas]

Very well put. Often it seams as though the advice is to live in the now...not sure I can grasp that completely. Isn't "living in the now" a slightly blurry approach to life? I can see how stress would be reduced but wouldn't preparation be compromised? Such an interesting topic! I have been researching reading, discussing this! I appreciate your feedback very much! :)

[Liara Covert]

Mark, part of you is always in the now or you would not be aware of what this is. As you evolve to recognize the mind is a fragmented phenomena, you slowly take steps to merge your differing perspectives. Time is the illusion human beings create as a way to examine and learn from fragments of perceived time and experiences. You only delude yourself into believing in an illusive timeline as a way to stretch out and explore the meaning of individual events in more detail. It is an unconscious strategy. Sometimes one view of time seems more dominant than another, but they are all present and part of wholeness. You choose what matters at a given moment. That does not mean everything else that is happening simultaneously stops. You simply choose to block it out temporarily. This is selective consciousness inside self.