Sometimes we are not prepared to meet the challenges in front of our eyes. Challenges are inevitable in this lifetime. So to think that a challenge is not right or we did something wrong to create a challenge is not exactly truth. A more accurate way to address and interpret challenge is as though it is a welcomed gift. Often times a challenge prompts us to become a better person (in ways that we previously would not have pushed ourselves to become).
Fear is not a good compass
When fear subsides that is when you inherit the Earth, not in a materialistic manner, but in a wholistic manner. This is when you can love, not fear your neighbor. This is when you can embrace your challenges and navigate those waters without fear that you WILL find a sun-filled, manifestation-filled shore, someday, on your journey.
What there is to fear is fear itself. If you focus on this thought more than anything else you will go farther than you ever will with fear. So navigate through the waters of life making sure to not use fear as a navigational tool. Fear will only have you spinning in circles, unable to hear the clear voices that will surely navigate you to better shores and waters for times to come.
Fear is separation from God
When you start to go to fear you separate yourself from God. You have to be connected to God to create and do many of the wonderful things that you stepped on this Earth to do. So relax and don’t go to fear.
When fear appears or pops up or is do something that will pop you out of fear. Here is a small list of what will make you no longer fear:
The problems with this planet right now (or many of the problems) exist because people are listening to fear, instead of taking charge and looking or listening to something else. Stop the fear.
Think with your heart; not your head
We are positive that it is all working out. It is the fear that it is not so that blocks the flow. When you live in fear you live in limitation. If you take away the fear then your choices become limitless.
The same is true of your head. Your head will think of limitation. Try another organ to “think” with. Let’s start with your heart. Start to ask your heart what it feels about your next move or decision. Then evaluate how great of a decision making organ your heart is (after the decision is made). There is not just one organ that knows or “thinks.”
If you access some of your other organs for thoughts then you are going to think farther and greater than if you just use your mind.
Don’t forget that you are love, loved and lovable, unconditionally
If we do not understand that we are love and the universe is love then we are prone to be hurt when we don’t feel love or loved. If you want more love, clear out what is not love from your life. Is it a memory that is not love or loving or unconditional love? Then clear out that experience.
All you are is love. All that the universe is is love. We get confused and forget that we are love and so does the universe. It is like forgetting our names though. We are still love even though we forget. No need to take an experience that is not love personally.
Do not be afraid of change. What change, often, seems like is the old leaving. When the old leaves we do not understand, in that moment, that it might be leaving room for the new. Plants cannot live with the old, dead leaves as well as they can live when the old is trimmed away. Do not be fearful. Watch as the old falls away and wait patiently for the new to appear. Look at the seasons. If we held onto the old, dead leaves the new, refreshed leaves would not be as encouraged to grow. The old leaves take our energy and time and they leave less energy and time for the new. Let the new growth grow and RENEW.
Do not take your challenges too personally; they are opportunities to heal
When you heal your pain from a difficult moment in your life you are merely healing a memory. There is no need to take that experience personally. There is a bigger piece of it and it is that you needed to heal and that moment was drawn to you and you to it. There is no need to take the experience personally as though it creates your own personal value. Underneath all of that is a wound that needed to be healed. The experience came to you and you to it so that you can heal. No need to feel less. In fact you should be grateful that the opportunity to heal came to you in such a way that awakened you to the fact that you needed to heal this piece or pieces of you. You are absolutely lovely in every single way without any doubt.
Stay present in order to heal
When you are faced with an opportunity to heal, a challenge, take is as just that (an opportunity to heal). The greater challenge is staying in the moment, focused on healing. It is so easy to forget (or not remember) the wound, past and/or present, and not do the work to heal. There are many modalities that will keep you in the moment:
We want to pretend that our pain is not real, but it is real and fantasy does not heal our wounds. Staying present in the pain helps us to heal. So remember to remember your pain and not let it go unnoticed. The more that you can focus on the pain, the memory the more able you are to heal. There will be more on healing in future posts. Let it be known that this is a major subject for people now as many of one’s wounds are staring us in the face like a hungry dog waiting for his/her owner to feed him/her.
We are here to say that you are responsible for how you internalize your world. It is not ok to allow people to mistreat you, at all, nor is it your fault. It is ok to speak up when you feel like you have not been treated respectfully. If you want respect, you need to give respect so approach the subject respectfully. Often when people do not respect you it is because they do not have respect for themselves. So if they cannot hear your request for respect it is often because they, themselves, cannot yet respect themselves. Once it is expressed you cannot do anything but constantly, respectfully request respect. However, you cannot expect a person to change how they treat you until they work on loving themselves more.
Take this time to heal
When you look at the sum of your life look at the opportunities to grow. What are you supposed to be learning? Do you run into the same people, with the same characteristics, with the same learning opportunities? Look at them as lessons. Once you see the lesson and, most importantly, learn the lesson then you are able to move on. And maybe those same personalities will not be drawn to you and you to them. It is not a matter of them being the “problem.” They help you grow so they may be the opportunity to grow and you might be the only thing, person to heal. It is time to heal. It is a great time to churn out what works and what doesn’t work and, in the process, to grow.
So grow. Take this opportunity NOW.
Messages in the Sand 