Respond to adversity with love

Imagine you connect with someone who says he feels he approaches the end of his rope.  He shares with you that nothing is going right, that he is not getting what he wants and that his health is failing.  This person may be emotional, self-critical and focused on what he does not control.  This could also be you. What are you invited to learn?  How can you respond to adversity with love? Sense these five things;

1) Listen with your being.  See blessings wherever you are.

2) Feel every thought and emotion then, detach.  Know they are not you & do not control you unless you let them.

3) Love and accept everyone & everything unconditionally.

4) Recognize the impermanence of everything.

5)  Focus on your awareness of a situation & open to attract the thoughts that will reveal answers. Tap into universal wisdom consciousness.  Use what it offes without becoming slave to it.

Comments

[bern]

1) Often one has a hard time listening to one's self because the mind rambles on and on. One can learn to listen to the self by beginning to listen to other people. It stops ones own mind to listen to the ramblings of another mind. Then when one has learned to listen, they can then be in a position to listen to themselves.

When one begins to see the blessings wherever you are, then one can begin bestowing blessings wherever you are.

2) People often feel bad or guilty about their feelings or thoughts. Therefore, the feelings turn into emotions that become buried within the psyche. Know they must be respected to release them. But make the intention to fully release them back to where they came..back to the light..back to the self.....after they have their say. Consciously replace the emptiness after their ejection with light or love. We are not who we think we are. We invite experiences and feelings to enter us. They are not us. We confuse attachments or invitations of spirit as us. Once latched onto, the ego develops.

3) If you begin to see that you are in everything, then you want to love everything because you want love for your self.

4) The world evolves with every moment. You are a new species or vibration with every breath you take.

5) Begin to see that you live in a house of mirrors where light reflects off of every surface. Your thoughts and feelings and perceived collective image will bounce off of other objects and will come back to you in another form for you to see your self more clearly.

[Davina]

Hi Liara. Very true -- "This could also be you." In a way it is part of us even though it is "someone else's". I understand how we are all connected and so our positive attention to someone else's situation can only help the whole. Now... admittedly I get this intellectually, but emotionally...? Well, "knowing" is a start. Thanks for helping me remember this perspective.

[Liara Covert]

Bernie, you may have heard of a story where a human being enters a house of mirrors. This person hears inner voices leading him in different directions and the inner, loving voice gradually invites him to break the mirrors in order to reconnect with infinite self. In order to go through this process, the person is invited to overcome many layers of fear and reach deep inside for forgotten courage. Eventually, the voice encourages him to break the last mirror in order to find the answer to everything. Of course, the person is left with his authentic self.

[Liara Covert]

Davina, raising self-awareness occurs in stages. This post is indeed a gentle reminder that everyone is connected to everyone else and learning to step outside mental thinking is always possible.