Full disclosure... I am unmistakably a believer. In this space I often use the term 'The Divine' to refer to the Higher Power. Please allow yourself to replace 'The Divine' with how you've come to know and understand God. ______________________________________________________________________________________
The world has a funny way of bumping into us and completely changing our inner state of being. One moment we’re happy and content, going through our day, and then BAM! Someone that we really don’t feel good being around runs into us with the kind of passing comment that can immediately derail us. We end up having 4 or 5 different conversations with that person in our head for the rest of the day. Maybe we tell them off. Maybe we logically box them into a corner and then knock them out with the tremendously practiced words we’ve worked so hard to come up with. All in our head of course, but knock them out none the less. The problem with this is that it takes up a tremendous amount of energy and time throughout the day! Also, we rarely end up having a conversation with the person, let alone along the vein of what we’ve rehearsed in our minds. There is another way, a way that doesn’t take our entire day hostage.
As painful and uncomfortable moments arise during our day, and they most certainly will, we must be aware that we are experiencing those feelings. Don’t engage them or try to change the world around you in order to make yourself feel more comfortable. Don’t spend your energy immediately, trying to do whatever it takes to make those feelings and pain go away. Instead, sit in rest and relaxation, being fully present with those feelings and allowing the old, hidden, suppressed pain that rises up to come up fully and release itself. This will take a tremendous amount of faith in the Divine. Faith that the Divine won’t allow us to be swallowed up by that pain. Faith that the Divine will provide for us emotionally what we need at that time.
When someone or some circumstance bumps into you and makes you extraordinarily uncomfortable, ask yourself… What is it I’m feeling? Inadequacy? Insecurity? Fear? What is behind that feeling? More of the same? Or something different. Let yourself be purified and healed as you allow yourself to go through the uncomfortable moments of fully recognizing your pain and discomfort emotionally, instead of suppressing those experiences and hiding from the truth. The Divine will care for you in those moments, even when its painful. You will come out the other side with great clarity and confidence of the Divine within your heart. It is only after you have been fully present with your discomfort and pain and that it has passed by without you being wrapped up in it, that you will have the clarity to decide what it is, if anything, that you want to change in your life. Maybe you just needed to have those emotions come up so that you could be fully present with them and allow those emotions to slip away. Or maybe when life bumped into me they came up to show me things about myself that I would like to change on a deep level.
One thing is for sure, if you spend your energy trying to keep yourself comfortable all of the time, you will be left with an empty life that is full of busy work and controlling/manipulative behavior… completely unaware of what is truly going on deep within your own heart. NO THANK YOU!
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Today I will allow myself to have the courage to trust The Divine and relax as problems arise throughout my day. I won't hide from the discomfort or the pain that bump into me today. Instead, I will take a deep breathe, sit with my discomfort and ask myself... what is being revealed within me? Why is this so uncomfortable? How can I move forward? I will trust The Divine will provide the way for me.