Inner Journey Meditation 12/21/09

I subscribe to a meditation website and I receive daily thoughts... today's seems to speak directly to my situation.... (more to come later) In the mean time, read this and ask yourself how it applies to you.

We can't escape

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them." -- Orison Swett Marden

We can’t escape problems and negativity. Escaping just brings denial and suppression - we continue to carry the problem with us. Ironically, it is our lack of acceptance and resistance to the problem that creates the pain. Resistance builds up an energy wall or block that, if not discharged, gets suppressed into the body. These blocks identify places where we have not enough understanding or love.

For health, we must work through what we seek to avoid. How do we do this? We can love parts of ourselves that we don’t like. We can seek the lessons we are being invited to learn through the problem. We can examine our beliefs and seek to see different perspectives and a bigger picture. As our perspectives grow, more of life makes sense and has meaning.

"The Lord is a good psychologist: he knows the way our minds run. Turmoil can be the Lord's way of tapping us on the shoulder and saying, 'Don't forget me.'" -- Eknath Easwaran

http://www.higherawareness.com/

Rather than getting angry anymore, I am praying for the woman downstairs, Joyce. She must be such an unhappy, angry, bitter woman, and it's not fair for anyone to feel those things...