Relationships; Our Personal Reflecting Pool
Posted 06-27-2008 at 03:51 AM by Essence
This is an article I wrote in 2004. I just wanted to share it with everyone here.
Love, Light and Blessings,
Namaste
Relationships
Our Personal Reflecting Pool
by: Essence
As we travel through our mundane day to day lives of going to work, taking care of children, shopping, mowing the lawn, taking out the trash, etc., I think we all have a tendency sometimes to get caught up in the drama of it all.
I think we can all relate to those days that truly tax our patience. They usually start out by us oversleeping and having to rush to make it out the door on time. Your daughter cant find a thing to wear in that closet full of clothes shes chunking things out of. The dog just peed in the floor because you couldnt get him out fast enough. Your son cant find his report that is due today because he didnt do it, even though he swears he did. Someone must have taken it. Oh well, youll talk to the teacher later and see if you can fix it.
You finally get everyone in the car to start your George Jetson drop off routine only to find out your spouse didn't fill the gas tank last time they drove your car and the little light just came on. How dare them! Now you will have to make one more stop. A stop you dont have time for. But hey, thats all right, we all know were the only responsible human on the planet. The world would stop revolving if we didnt keep it rotating.
And all this in just the first hour since your eyes opened this morning. This doesnt even include the fact that your boss is going to give you one of those "Where have you been looks when your fifteen minutes late. Or all of those stupid questions from customers youll have to politely answer all day long. Like you really cared!! Oh yeah, lets not forget that pimple faced kid at the grocery store whos going to end up packing that five pound bloody roast on top of your tomatos (one of my personal favorites).
As humans experiencing this third dimensional realm, weve all had days like this. Sometimes it seems like more than our fair share.
But as hard as it may seem, it is just these types of days that its most important for us to remember that We are not human beings on a spiritual path, We are spiritual beings on a human path.
In other words, our true selves are not human beings trying to become some perfect spiritual being. Our true selves are spiritual beings here to experience being human.
As such, we have come here, at this time and to this place of our own free will. We have come here to experience and take back all that we experience and learn.
We come here from many different places and regions of this universe and others. Each of us comes with our own job to do. We are each and every one of us as individual as the infinite number of snowflakes in a winters blizzard. Yet as divine sparks of the Creator, we are all one. We have known each other since before forever. We have lived and died together as friends and enemies, as lovers and foes and as strangers.
We have played parts for each other in lifetime after lifetime. And all of this has brought us to where we are now.
Still playing roles in dramas for each other so as to allow each of us to learn, and remember and awaken to who and what we are.
If we can but realize that what we see in the other person, whether it is our son that sometimes seems so irresponsible or our daughter that seems so emotional and out of control over things that we can see really mean nothing; or our spouse, one of the people closest to us on this planet, who has a way of just pushing our buttons and bringing up more anger than we should ever allow anyone to do to us: If we can see and remember that they too are just spiritual beings such as ourselves, Spiritual beings we have known for eons and eons. Spiritual beings we are so familiar with and so close to that they have agreed to come here with us and play these roles for us. Spiritual beings, who love us so dearly, they are willing to daily endure our wrath just to mirror for us what it is in ourselves that must be faced. For that, whether they or we are conscious of it or not, is truly what they are doing.
Every individual we encounter in our day to day routine is just another soul we have known since before time here on this planet began. Matters not, how well we know them here in this third dimensional realm. Matters not if they elicit positive or negative emotions in us. Matters not what role they play for us. They are still just mirroring ourselves back to us.
If we can remember this and step back from the drama and go straight to the emotion, we can then begin to see that it is our own self we must face. Our own lessons we must learn and our own fears and pain we must transmute and overcome if we are to continue in our spiritual awakening.
With this said, I would remind us all that the next time our children annoy us. The next time our spouse angers us. The next time our best friend hurts our feelings or the next time that kid sacking our groceries irritates us, we not see it as something they are doing to us, but rather something they are doing for us.
I would say, step back from the scene that has just played out before your earthly eyes. See it for what it is. An illusion, a play on a stage. A play in which we are all just actors.
Look at it through the eyes of reality, your spiritual eyes.
If we understand the reality that this is all just an illusion we are creating for ourselves to learn from. If we understand that all that really exists is energy; that we, as conscious spiritual beings have manifested into matter all that we believe to be real. Then we can begin to understand that the only real thing in all of this is the emotion that these scenarios bring up in us.
That is when our real progress begins. Because it is then and only then that we can focus our attention on the emotion, on the feelings and begin to look within and see from whence they come.
As being human we will still have to deal with our lessons and our karma. We will still have to deal with the individuals who have agreed to play these parts for us.
But as awakening conscious spiritual beings it will begin to make a lot more sense. It will begin to become easier and easier to deal with and overlook the small everyday annoyances that present themselves to us. Well find that as time goes on, we no longer feel the need for anger and fear in our lives. We will no longer feel the need to react in negative ways to these situations when confronted with them. We will simply notice the emotion, see where its coming from inside us, and deal with it.
Believe it or not, the more we look at life this way, the easier and more normal it will become and the less we will find we draw these situations to ourselves. Until one day we wake up and realize they are no longer necessary at all. Weve outgrown them.
I think that maybe one more thing should be added here. And that would be that, it is not only the negative lessons and emotions that others mirror for us that are important. The positive emotions of happiness and joy, of glee and love are every bit as important to our spiritual growth. Its just that we usually have no problems to associate with and look at around positive emotions. I really cant ever remember anyone saying, My life has been so good lately, I just dont know how much more I can take! We tend to easily accept life when it is good. Its in those times that life is hard that we tend to forget who and what we are and why we are here.
Till we meet again, may you continue to grow and shine.
Blessed Be and Bright Blessings
Essence
Love, Light and Blessings,
Namaste
Relationships
Our Personal Reflecting Pool
by: Essence
As we travel through our mundane day to day lives of going to work, taking care of children, shopping, mowing the lawn, taking out the trash, etc., I think we all have a tendency sometimes to get caught up in the drama of it all.
I think we can all relate to those days that truly tax our patience. They usually start out by us oversleeping and having to rush to make it out the door on time. Your daughter cant find a thing to wear in that closet full of clothes shes chunking things out of. The dog just peed in the floor because you couldnt get him out fast enough. Your son cant find his report that is due today because he didnt do it, even though he swears he did. Someone must have taken it. Oh well, youll talk to the teacher later and see if you can fix it.
You finally get everyone in the car to start your George Jetson drop off routine only to find out your spouse didn't fill the gas tank last time they drove your car and the little light just came on. How dare them! Now you will have to make one more stop. A stop you dont have time for. But hey, thats all right, we all know were the only responsible human on the planet. The world would stop revolving if we didnt keep it rotating.
And all this in just the first hour since your eyes opened this morning. This doesnt even include the fact that your boss is going to give you one of those "Where have you been looks when your fifteen minutes late. Or all of those stupid questions from customers youll have to politely answer all day long. Like you really cared!! Oh yeah, lets not forget that pimple faced kid at the grocery store whos going to end up packing that five pound bloody roast on top of your tomatos (one of my personal favorites).
As humans experiencing this third dimensional realm, weve all had days like this. Sometimes it seems like more than our fair share.
But as hard as it may seem, it is just these types of days that its most important for us to remember that We are not human beings on a spiritual path, We are spiritual beings on a human path.
In other words, our true selves are not human beings trying to become some perfect spiritual being. Our true selves are spiritual beings here to experience being human.
As such, we have come here, at this time and to this place of our own free will. We have come here to experience and take back all that we experience and learn.
We come here from many different places and regions of this universe and others. Each of us comes with our own job to do. We are each and every one of us as individual as the infinite number of snowflakes in a winters blizzard. Yet as divine sparks of the Creator, we are all one. We have known each other since before forever. We have lived and died together as friends and enemies, as lovers and foes and as strangers.
We have played parts for each other in lifetime after lifetime. And all of this has brought us to where we are now.
Still playing roles in dramas for each other so as to allow each of us to learn, and remember and awaken to who and what we are.
If we can but realize that what we see in the other person, whether it is our son that sometimes seems so irresponsible or our daughter that seems so emotional and out of control over things that we can see really mean nothing; or our spouse, one of the people closest to us on this planet, who has a way of just pushing our buttons and bringing up more anger than we should ever allow anyone to do to us: If we can see and remember that they too are just spiritual beings such as ourselves, Spiritual beings we have known for eons and eons. Spiritual beings we are so familiar with and so close to that they have agreed to come here with us and play these roles for us. Spiritual beings, who love us so dearly, they are willing to daily endure our wrath just to mirror for us what it is in ourselves that must be faced. For that, whether they or we are conscious of it or not, is truly what they are doing.
Every individual we encounter in our day to day routine is just another soul we have known since before time here on this planet began. Matters not, how well we know them here in this third dimensional realm. Matters not if they elicit positive or negative emotions in us. Matters not what role they play for us. They are still just mirroring ourselves back to us.
If we can remember this and step back from the drama and go straight to the emotion, we can then begin to see that it is our own self we must face. Our own lessons we must learn and our own fears and pain we must transmute and overcome if we are to continue in our spiritual awakening.
With this said, I would remind us all that the next time our children annoy us. The next time our spouse angers us. The next time our best friend hurts our feelings or the next time that kid sacking our groceries irritates us, we not see it as something they are doing to us, but rather something they are doing for us.
I would say, step back from the scene that has just played out before your earthly eyes. See it for what it is. An illusion, a play on a stage. A play in which we are all just actors.
Look at it through the eyes of reality, your spiritual eyes.
If we understand the reality that this is all just an illusion we are creating for ourselves to learn from. If we understand that all that really exists is energy; that we, as conscious spiritual beings have manifested into matter all that we believe to be real. Then we can begin to understand that the only real thing in all of this is the emotion that these scenarios bring up in us.
That is when our real progress begins. Because it is then and only then that we can focus our attention on the emotion, on the feelings and begin to look within and see from whence they come.
As being human we will still have to deal with our lessons and our karma. We will still have to deal with the individuals who have agreed to play these parts for us.
But as awakening conscious spiritual beings it will begin to make a lot more sense. It will begin to become easier and easier to deal with and overlook the small everyday annoyances that present themselves to us. Well find that as time goes on, we no longer feel the need for anger and fear in our lives. We will no longer feel the need to react in negative ways to these situations when confronted with them. We will simply notice the emotion, see where its coming from inside us, and deal with it.
Believe it or not, the more we look at life this way, the easier and more normal it will become and the less we will find we draw these situations to ourselves. Until one day we wake up and realize they are no longer necessary at all. Weve outgrown them.
I think that maybe one more thing should be added here. And that would be that, it is not only the negative lessons and emotions that others mirror for us that are important. The positive emotions of happiness and joy, of glee and love are every bit as important to our spiritual growth. Its just that we usually have no problems to associate with and look at around positive emotions. I really cant ever remember anyone saying, My life has been so good lately, I just dont know how much more I can take! We tend to easily accept life when it is good. Its in those times that life is hard that we tend to forget who and what we are and why we are here.
Till we meet again, may you continue to grow and shine.
Blessed Be and Bright Blessings
Essence
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