On Being Self Aware-- Walk Gently
Many of us work hard on evolution, self awareness, and Spiritual growth. Sometimes this takes us down the trail of intense self criticism, often leading to disparaging thoughts that we will never get "better" or be "good enough." I have traveled down this dark trail many time myself. In addition to this being a very cruel way to treat one's self, this radioactive attitude leaks out into other relationships in our life. Even if it does not manifest in overt ways, we all know energy travels and energy travels all the time. Self hate cannot be contained; it changes the orbits of our electrons.In extreme cases we might even think Spirit made a mistake with placing us on the Earth (and you have to wonder how I know about this, don't you.... hope you are smiling). If we bottom out with that thought, it helps to remember that we should not try to out-create Creator. The platypus, porcupine, skunk, wolverine, maggot, are all works of the Creator and all have a place in this world. None is better or worse than the other. So who are we to decide we are a mistake?
We alone can not ruin anything. We are always in relationship to something and Spirit is always working in our life whether we acknowledge it or not...... just like breathing air is always occurring, whether we are paying attention to it or not. Change starts immediately simply by becoming more self-aware. We know that protons and neutrons in atoms change their orbit the moment they are observed, When we consider something, when we observe, we emit energy and that energy changes orbits and orbits change all the other orbits around them. Change is microscopic so we don't have to take a hammer and chisel to our own sweet self. Change is inherent in every moment of life. The moment two dogs look at each other they begin to change. The moment we consider and reflect upon our actions, energy travels and we start to Shift.
A rose does not criticize itself for being not such a good rose. It just continues to be the best rose it can be given the circumstances it's living in. A gentler way to look at what we might call ruining relationships or circumstances in our life would be instead to look at choices we've made and how we might like to do it differently in the future. When on a Spiritual path we can take inventory of our day (this is also daily work for people in 12 Step meetings) and we examine how we handled the events and encounters of the day (including our interactions with our self). Then we can spend some time reflecting on how we could have handled the day with more love, compassion, patience and humor. We can also pray for Guidance to help us with our desire to react differently in the future. This way we gently grow and are able make different choices based on time spent in self reflection, prayer and meditation. Time spent on these activities are fertilizer for the soul and can bring forgiveness, add patience, compassion, humor and inner peace to our daily life. There is no self criticism here, only self consideration. This is a non- violent, organic, kind and compassionate way to to grow closer to our self and to enhance our Spiritual connection.
We alone can not ruin anything. We are always in relationship to something and Spirit is always working in our life whether we acknowledge it or not...... just like breathing air is always occurring, whether we are paying attention to it or not. Change starts immediately simply by becoming more self-aware. We know that protons and neutrons in atoms change their orbit the moment they are observed, When we consider something, when we observe, we emit energy and that energy changes orbits and orbits change all the other orbits around them. Change is microscopic so we don't have to take a hammer and chisel to our own sweet self. Change is inherent in every moment of life. The moment two dogs look at each other they begin to change. The moment we consider and reflect upon our actions, energy travels and we start to Shift.
A rose does not criticize itself for being not such a good rose. It just continues to be the best rose it can be given the circumstances it's living in. A gentler way to look at what we might call ruining relationships or circumstances in our life would be instead to look at choices we've made and how we might like to do it differently in the future. When on a Spiritual path we can take inventory of our day (this is also daily work for people in 12 Step meetings) and we examine how we handled the events and encounters of the day (including our interactions with our self). Then we can spend some time reflecting on how we could have handled the day with more love, compassion, patience and humor. We can also pray for Guidance to help us with our desire to react differently in the future. This way we gently grow and are able make different choices based on time spent in self reflection, prayer and meditation. Time spent on these activities are fertilizer for the soul and can bring forgiveness, add patience, compassion, humor and inner peace to our daily life. There is no self criticism here, only self consideration. This is a non- violent, organic, kind and compassionate way to to grow closer to our self and to enhance our Spiritual connection.
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