In a recent blog, I wrote these words: “I need help. I need abundance, I need money, I need business, I need rest, I need my self esteem to be boosted. I need guidance. I need love.” There was more to write about this and I am taking the time today to ponder on those words.
“I need help”: is this true? Do I really need help or is it my mind that thinks it needs help? If I think this thought, how does it make me feel? Helpless.
Our thoughts shape how we view life. If we believe those thoughts, as I wrote in that blog a couple of weeks back, we create a reality that is painful. Byron Katie calls them the “stressful thoughts”. This is the reason why some of us, despite the abundance in our lives, despite the love, despite the support, feel we need more. It could be that we want more. That’s different. Do we need more? According to Byron Katie, if we don’t have it, we don’t need it. And I have come to agree with her often unpopular philosophy. Either I have all the support that I needed right now but I fail to see it, or I don’t, but I am meant not to have it because the lack of support comes from the way I do things. I am actually creating this reality, no matter how much I might resist it.
Let me give you an example. Very often, we think “I need more money”. Apart from extreme cases, this is not true. As long as you have a roof over your head, as long as you have food on the table, you don’t need more money. You might want more money but that’s another matter. You might be skint. You might wonder how to make ends meet, but you don’t need more money. Am I irritating you enough by now? Well, if you had more money right now, you might not feel the pain of having to look into your poverty consciousness for example. Or if you are unwell in your health, and you feel the pain, if you felt better without learning the lessons from the challenge you are facing, then somehow, you would be robbed of an opportunity to learn some valuable lessons.
So “I need more money”, is it true? Well no. I don’t. What I really need is faith. What I really need is trust. Trust in the fact that the world is a benevolent place. Are you thinking: Is she mad? What about the wars, the famines, the murders… I have come to the conclusion that these things exist because they are needed by the people who experience them. These things are needed for us to see what we create and what is needed to correct the situation. These are just lessons.
I was told once that someone I know (I need to remain vague here and I hope you will understand) had died in a concentration camp in a past life. Itwas a client who needed a lot of healing, particularly in their digestive systems. As I wondered why so much healing energy was needed, I was shown about the past life. I asked my guides: “but why would such a person chose to live a life that lead to them dying in a concentration camp? Why?” I just couldn’t understand. The mere fact that concentration camps have existed has always created huge questioning in my mind about the “human” experience. What I was shown, was that that client had deliberately chosen as their path during their last incarnation to be deported to a concentration camp and as a result die from hunger because they wanted to have their faith tested and despite that incredible bigger than life challenge, continue to have faith in humanity. They had chosen to fortify their faith and apparently their past life had been a success.
I have recently seen quotes posted on Facebook from Ann Frank that point in that direction. There was even an article written by a historian that questioned the fact that those quotes were “genuine” backed up by a friend of Ann Frank who claimed that she would have never written such a thing. In the light of what I just wrote, I believe that Ann Frank might have had a similar “fate” or chosen a life challenge similar to my client: she wanted to experience atrocities and still decide to see the best in humanity and continue to have faith in it. And what a life path that is. Quite some enlightened beings we are witnessing here.
So to go back to our “little” challenges, comparatively, we have chosen them so that we could learn some valuable lessons and grow more compassionate, more loving, more respectful. And most of you know it is very difficult to have compassion unless you have been there yourself. Pain for example, is rarely understood until you go through pain yourself. The same goes for everything. So I am here questioning the way we approach our “painful” experiences and suggesting here that there is a possibility that “All is well” despite appearances. The challenges that we face, big or small, are meant to be and the quicker we learn the lessons from these challenges, the less they have reasons to continue to be in our lives.
I have embraced my challenges head on in the past few months and I have to say that Byron Katie really helped me take 100% responsibility for everything that is happening in my life. I don’t always know why things are happening, but my “new” philosophy is that if it is happening, then there is a reason and my only job is to refrain from resisting feeling like a victim and embrace the learning that can be found in each of them. That’s what spiritual gold diggers are doing. That is now my full time job. Whenever I see, feel, experience something unpleasant or challenging: I look within. What in me, created this experience. Because life is a mirror. Everything is created inside. And even if you didn’t believe in this, try it. You are the only one who can change. And if you change your attitude, if you clear your negativity and your victim mentality about what is happening to you, the “it’s not fair” reaction, you will give yourself a gift of growth. As a result, you won’t have to experience the unpleasantness for as long. As soon as the lessons are learnt, the challenge disappears.
All is well. Yes, despite external appearances, I believe that all is well. I hope that my blog is helping you see things differently. Sometimes it is very hard to understand why we go through challenging experiences but if you repeat the mantra that all is well, maybe this will help you have more faith in this world.
All is well. All my needs are met. What I wrote a few weeks back doesn’t make sense anymore. No I don’t need more money. No I don’t need more love. No I don’t need help, I am probably repulsing help by this tendency of mine to want to control everything. No, I don’t need more abundance. No, I don’t need more business: if things are quiet, there is a reason. No, I don’t need rest: I am having it when I need it because suddenly all my clients cancel. No, I don’t need my self esteem to be boosted: I just need more faith. No, I don’t need guidance. These are all fictions of my own thinking. I have everything I need right now. All my needs are met. And so are yours. And if they aren’t: time for action. Time to go within and look at the beliefs you hold that might come in the way of you receiving what y0u need.
Wishing you a perfect day
Anges de Lumiere
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