10 reasons to be grateful for difficulty

Energy is in constant motion. It takes form in relationships and circumstances that encourage you to explore emotional turmoil. The universe creates situations that relate to all your choices. This is karma in tow. Not everyone grasps the basis for karma. Consider 10 reasons to be grateful for difficulties;

1) It is opportunity to challenge your anger. Negative energy hides true reasons for upset. As you identify discomfort, you grow aware of parts of personality you can change, and shift mental focus to what you want to strengthen.

2) It draws attention to buried pain. Unless you heal root causes, suffering will not change. Only self-awareness permits you to reframe and heal painful memories. Knowing about your emotions and why you create them enables you to compare what you created before to how you feel now so you learn to create different feelings. This is a meaningful healing process.

3) It encourages you to heal a competitive nature. The desire to compete, to accept a challenge, to fight a court case, to defend your belief of innocence in any argument, all reflects deep-seated fear. Unless you address core reasons for inadequacy and insecurity, you fight misplaced battles you do not win. From the soul view, only love exists. It teaches how ego and emotion are measures of unacknowledged pain.

4) It suggests you to stop viewing self as victim. Contrary to popular belief, every experience you encounter is appropriate at a given moment. On some level you may not be aware of yet, you deserve every experience you get. When you do not choose to let go of expectations, you resist forgiveness of self and others and refuse to surrender to the moment.

5) It invites you to give up judging. No situation is good or bad. You attribute labels based on misunderstandings. You discover judgments obscure the truth. This  perpetuates discomfort and inner restlessness. You resist unconditional self-acceptance. You learn judging mirrors what you do to self.

6) It teaches how the soul communicates. Difficulty is soul's way of telling you healing is required. The remedy is not to withdraw from sources of hardship, but to realize how you contribute to them and learn to search inside the self for causes of apparent pain.  You are guided to speak from the heart rather than listen to ego-mind.

7) It teaches you to learn trust. Every experience is a test for awareness and faith in what you do not understand.  You are reminded it is not always clear why you exist right now. What matters is that you discern which parts of you prevent you from using your gifts to the best of your ability.  To develop deeper emotional awareness empowers you to make more responsible choices.

8) It teaches you escape is not the answer.  Part of you gets confused when you do not experience joy, harmony and enthusiasm.  Choosing to avoid difficulties simply means the emotions underneath them will create new hardships to get your attention until you listen. 

9) It brings out support in those around you.  Uncondtional love and support surround you in unseen ways, regardless of your actions.  Perceived difficulties also invite empathy and understanding from people you know and do not. They offer love and support.  This teaches you what soul wants you to do-to love and accept all of self. 

10) It prepares you to handle other hardship.  In some sense, each obstacle you face and work through can make other ones less intimidatng and easier to manage. You gain confidence as you reach each milestone.  You sense meaning and purpose in each hurdle.  Inner changes have already begun.  As you consciously intend harmony, cooperation and service to others, then you realize you exist to experiment with your life.  You figure out how to get out of vicious circles.   

Mother Theresa's Prayer

May today bring you peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.

Where does one go from here?

To awaken to the moment is to be willing to remind yourself of some fundamental points that orient your perception, belief systems and mindset. Bringing them to conscious awareness helps you decide where to go from here;

1) Realize misery is a choice. Review your take on basic mortality. Evolve to see it as it is, notice reactions of love or fear. Revelations are a springboard to transform you. To allow emotion to control you teaches you how to feel powerless, unloved and unlovable.  Reactions are all extensions of you.

2) Know love opens the senses. You are invited to view the self and the world with pure compassion. Sensing harmony, kindness and sharing shifts focus from desire to receive. Deep appreciation for life helps focus the mind on fearlessness.  You determine if you listen to love wisdom filling consciousness.

3) Rejecting invalidates who you are. To ignore soul impulse and practical experience is to ignore what is inside. When and if you will be aware and stop what does not serve you, is completely up to you. The ball is in your court.

4) Return to a dependable source. To grasp the source of your values, thoughts and actions helps you recognize the trail of unconscious conditioning and what truly comes naturally. Ideas from the universe do not have any Earthly source.

5) Experiment with truth.  As you choose to test your own assumptions, and move beyond just rationalizing, you come to realize what works.  Free will means you can discard ideas you outgrow that no longer seem to apply. Truth is as you like it, or not. It is static. Only external self transforms.

Move beyond the chains of time

Analysis of dream submitted by Ian in Melbourne, Australia.

Dream- I had an astral travel experience which took me to England. I flew through atunnel and found myself in the home of a friend (whom I have never visited in person). I saw him with his feet up on the table. He was smoking a cigar. I observed his furniture in detail and telepathically read his mind about his intentionfor a project.When I awoke, I wrote my friend and received confirmation of all I hadseen and feltin the astral. Part of me knew telepathically and through ESP what he would say. I struggle to separate dreaming fully from reality.

Predominant Emotion- fear, surprise, self-love and acceptance

Interpretation- This dream highlights an advancing awareness of timelessness. It is a process to learn to surrender completely to wherever you are, that is, to be totally present. It is one thing to visualize and reveals progressto experience it. As you drop levels of inner resistance, you discover hidden spiritual power. Imaginary projections are only in the future.

Many human beings live a fragmented existence. The physical body does things and the mind wanders between past and future. When mind is unsatisfied, it refuses to accept what is. When mind wanders away from the now, negativity arises, the inner space is not clear and conscious astral travel is inconceivable. As mind empties of thought, you are no longer trapped in the time continuum. You not only realize every event is happening simultaneously, but you travel between moments.

Telepathy is free-flowing dialogue among open minds.  All that is necessary is heightening levels of sensory perception.  An outer sense of purpose has limits yet and inner sense of purpose offer a labryinth of possibilities.  As mind-created layers of problems dissolve, untapped abilities present to you.

What brings you back?

To believe you know everything is not a complete illusion. Yet, to assume you currently access all this inner knowing is misleading. The ego may tell you yes, but the conscious mind echoes it needs more time to clarify and accept it has answers.

As it happens, its a misunderstanding to believe the future will free you from the past. One incarnates on Earth to work through emotions and relearn what is means to exist in the present. Your unconscious past is not useful except insofar as it takes shape at this moment. Awakening from dreams is key.

As you begin to view yourself as a multi-dimensional being, you begin to sense the plane of physical matter you know as Earth is not all there is. As you dream, you can train self to gain insight into how part of you exists on different planes at once. To be conscious of the body when perspective is above and you view closed eyes suggests something is going on beyond the physical. You know this sensation when you feel it.

Astral travelers experience at least two planes; the astral and physical. The astral extends or mirrors the physical plane. Some describe astral as a transition or porthole to access other realms. Each plane has its own rules. Physical laws do not apply in astral. This place in the mind enables you to move beyond conditioned limits and uncover untapped abilities.

Whether awake or asleep, energy beings quest for answers. Dream journeys expand experience and trigger revelations about what is possible. Awakening in the physical world enables rediscovered ideas to come into conscious awareness. All is possible with mental training and discipline.

Astral dreaming offers repeated opportunities where soul guides you to reconnect pieces of fragmented consciousness. You grow to discern where illusion ends and where pieces of truth exist. In essence, the part of you that you do not see brings the rest of you full circle. It begins and ends in mind.

How do you chart your life?

Many human beings get wrapped up in how to define their lives.  They attach to labels and create associations that further identify a kind of mental map. For some, the process is reassuring, at least at first.  For others, it is very confusing. How do you chart you life in meaningful ways?

1) Recognize that the essence of a meaningful life is not its direction, but how you live each moment the best you can.

2) Accept you have a unique tone, aura, personality and that all you do affects everyone consciously and unconsciously. 

3) Discern negative situations are fueled by powerful energetic charge, yet this is not you and never exists but in the mind.

4) Raise awareness that the only way to overcome perceived emotional pain is to be conscious and learn to see it as it is.

5) Come to see a complacent sense of identity often keeps the mind imprisoned and prevents full access to authentic power.

6) Embrace perceived imperfection as a part of life, a part of increasing self-love and unconditonal self-acceptance. 

7) Discern unwavering acceptance is the end of hope and fear, when illusions of past and future dissolve.  This is presence.