Understand & release destructive feelings
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 8:13AM
Liara Covert in Self Improvement
You don't realize dreams unless you love yourself. You can't love yourself until you forgive all your perceived imperfections and see beyond. You don't learn to love fully before you realize you have reason to love the innocence in others. If your instinct is to judge or attack, then you have new opportunities to see new purpose in life. Fear is what sets in when you forget how to love. fear is a delusion. You don't fight fear, rather, you turn on the love and extinguish or dissolve the illusion of fear.

Are you unhappy people aren't nice to you? You might interpret their behavior as a call for compassion and love. Only what your own heart is doing determines whether you have peace within. If people seem nasty, aren't you forgetting to love yourself? Everybody loves you, they just don't all know it yet. We have a veil called a personality that hides the loving beings we are. We also fall into the trap of being blinded to the true personalities of others.  Any judgment you have on anyone, is a way to judge yourself and prolong your suffering. You may be saying, what is my mission? What should I do? Learn to use your mind to figure out why you're here.

You can experience clarity. The physical reality is only the level of effect. Consciousness is the level of cause. Changes you make in behavior will only be temporary unless you deal with the thoughts at the basic level. Invite yourself to rethink potentially destructive feelings and decipher them for what they really are. Knowing is a way to remove their power or hold over you. Its not your job to get things, its your job to discern why you create barriers to sensing and learning.

1) Denial: takes form when you fear anything other than what you think you know. Learn to let go by becoming more flexible and open-minded, and accepting that you don't know everything. You want a perfect relationship with whatever you deny yourself. Get comfortable with having whatever you fear not knowing or having.

2) Anger: takes form when your values, principles or beliefs are threatened. Learn to let go by accepting diverse ideas contribute to a wider view. The real matter is learning to see thoughts, expressions and others equally rather than unequally.

3) Annoyance: takes form when you allow yourself to judge and somehow feel discomfort about it. Learn to build self-confidence, to balance inner (spiritual) and outer (physical) world views. This implies transcending visions of hierarchies.

4) Depression: takes form when you give into doubt, lose direction or get wrapped up in what isn't enough or isn't working. Learn to let go by realizing everything happens at exactly the right time and you can learn from it all. You must go within to envision and create the world anew, attracting the experiences you want.

5) Resentment: takes form as reaction to criticism, sarcasm, judgment and control of ego-mind.  Learn to let go by tapping into the healing force of the Universe. Replace harsh impulses with the desire to share kindness, to align your mind with the Universe's forcefield of positive power. Expand on your view of "appropriate."

6) Discomfort: takes form when intolerance or disapproval are permitted to control your mind. Learn to let go by opening your heart, becoming more accepting, and sensing value in other people for who they are and how they think.

7) Hostility: takes form when you refuse to accept some aspect of yourself at soul-level. Learn to let go of the negative eneergy by pinpointing exactly what you don't love inside. Choose to seek within yourself and take down the barriers that prevent you from experiencing love. Realize why you condemn and decide you're worthy. 

8) Sadness: takes form when you sense lack, void, regret, and permit selfishness to prevail. Learn to surrender, celebrate what is, to grasp selflessness, altruism and infinite joy. Take opportunities to forgive people who don't think they deserve it. If you don't choose to love, you can't understand people. You also set them up to fail.

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