This has
certainly been so true for me in the last year.
It has taken much courage and plenty of smacks to bring me to a place of
understanding of this very lesson.
Despite all that I have learned in this incarnation, I found myself
floundering, becoming agitated and angry and sadly to say, doing the “poor old
me” behaviour. My faith had wavered and I felt myself falling deep into the
dark pit of despair. Really quite
ridiculous I must say...
Despite the
hand I have been dealt with, I finally took the time to step back and look at
what I have learned from this experience.
I would not
have been able to do this, had I not followed my inner guidance and taken those
deep breaths, looking upward and hearing what I was guided to hear.
I have
learned in this last year that life is at times tough. Yet my reaction to it
was my own choice. I could, of course,
have chosen to breathe and look upward, but stubborn little me, as most are,
needed to be whacked on the head several times before I “got” it.
As this
latest part of my journey unfolded, I did what most of us do... I reacted with
negativity, asking why me? What have I
done to deserve this? “It’s so not fair”,
were the type of comments that emerged from my lips. On some level, I experienced a sense of
knowing that my behaviour was not in sync with what I believed. It’s really quite amazing how many of us,
including myself, step back into what we were when our backs are against the
wall.
I am privileged
to say that having done that, I finally got myself together and commenced with
an attitude of “this is a lesson” and that “everything was as it should be at
that time”. I learned that we are never
given what we are not ready to learn, that lessons come to us through
circumstances and people only when we are really ready to live through the experience. I
learned to take each day at a time, one at a time and discovered by doing this
that I was able to breathe through whatever the day brought to me. I learned to look into the issue and discover
what it was that I was learning from that particular experience. Once I achieved this, I was able to work with
the issue and then in gratitude for the service it had been to me, let it go
and be in peace with it.
Through
this, I learned that I deserve compassion, love and peace; that I am
compassion, love and peace.
I also
learned that despite what our heads are telling us, that we are never
alone. There are a host of Celestial
Beings that stay with us, guiding us, comforting us, giving us strength and
courage. They are the ones who send us signs, in the form of messages we may
read on Face Book, or in the lyrics of songs or in the writings of others. They guide us to see, that we are not alone,
that others out there are in the same or similar positions to ourselves and
often they show us that what we believe to be the direst circumstances are not.
Should we but just take the time to look around us, we will find that there are
many who experience far more difficult lives that we could ever imagine; those
who endure lives in war torn countries, who live with starvation each day and
know no other way of life but to live as such.
There are those, who are torn by family violence, who are so affected by
their life circumstances. There are many
such examples; we have only to open a tabloid and read it or turn on the
television and watch the news broadcast to know that we are alone in facing
adversity in our lives.
Then of course, there are the earth Angels,
who come in the guise of our true friends and family. These
are the ones who encourage us. They
become our ears and shoulders and spend hours of their valuable time allowing
us to pour our woes out to them. They
are also the ones, who when necessary, kick our little butts. Painful as this may seem, it is often
necessary as we dive deeper and deeper into the pit of despair that surrounds
us when we are in dire straits.
The
greatest of all was the knowledge and acceptance that our Divine is always with
us and in our times of distress it is He that extends His hand, carrying us as
we come to terms with the experience.
The outcome
of each experience is the realisation that we have emerged from it a stronger
and wiser soul; that we are able to continue forth with compassion and love,
carrying no baggage or bitterness into our futures. It is the knowledge that we are strong and resilient,
that we are worthy of greatness and are capable of achieving whatever it is
that we want to achieve. There is
nothing that can hold us back. No experience, no matter how tough it was, can
break us unless we choose to allow it to do so.
Ultimately
the choice to view the experience as a positive step in your journey or as canyon
so deep that we see only the negatives of it is our own.
Make
choices that are good for you, that will bring you to the next level on your
journey. Lift your spirit daily by
playing happy music, or watching happy enlightening programmes, or reading
uplifting books. Be in service to those
around you. Motivate yourself daily by
reading quotes and applying those that have meaning to you. Be in gratitude for that which you already
have. All these will support you in
staying in a positive state of mind which will allow you to achieve the ultimate
outcome; the lesson you have come to learn.
In love and
light,
Amanda
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© Amanda C Nicolin 2012
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