Give as much guidance as you can
Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 5:36AM Healing is not a short-term experience, though it does involve short-lived revelations. It is something each being spends a lifetime exploring in ways often unacknowledged, disregarded or unforseen. When was the last time you asked yourself why that is? How do your views on the matter change?
Early on, everyone imagines what is best for them. You decide what you will listen to within yourself and what just seems like hocus pocus. You encounter many crossroads and at each one, you must choose; be authentic to yourself or something else.
During dreams or while awake, you recall speaking freely to "invisible friends." Adults persuaded you these friends do not exist. Little-by-little you revised your notion of what is okay to say and to whom, and forgot who you are in the process.
The moment may arise when you become aware something about how you live, think or do, no longer makes sense. If this happens, then be willing to give as much guidance as you can. You may be shifting a notch to think again on your own. As you begin reflecting differently, be sure to consider this;
1) suffering may pass in a wink, but the lead-up never does.
2) to spare yourself mistakes would prevent deeper growth.
3) the desire to avoid suffering may just be the root of all suffering.
Reader Comments (4)
I am glad that you said healing is not a short-term experience. It is ongoing all the time on many levels.
Whether it's about healing or suffering, the point to note is that life is a contiual stream of consciousness and whether we consciously move WITH it, we are moved BY it.
Suffering may be tied into our internal time code. We wallow in it and anticipate it's end. That often comes sooner that we think, but we are stuck in a time period of initial suffering. Thanks for a brillant post. :D
You made an interesting point - that the desire to avoid suffering may be what causes suffering in the first place. Fear of loss, for example, causes the suffering of jealousy, insecurity, possessiveness etc. Great perspective, as usual!
Daphne, to postpone what evokes discomfort does not make the source of the discomfort disappear. Such behaviour merely gives a person opportunities to explore contradictions betwen effectiveness and idleness.
Jannie, as you realize everything depends on thought, then you begin to gain a different perspective on intense feelings you sense inside you. This invites a person to recognize he determines his choices and can evolve to become awre of new possibilities befoe new choices are made. Its can seem a revelation to discern you determine the perception of your suffering and how long it lasts.