Other people don’t cause our feelings. Our own level of self-awareness determines how we hear and respond to the outside world. The deeper we’ve investigated our conditioning, the less reactive we are and the more able we are to choose our responses. Blaming out is a tactic our ego uses to keep us identified and distracted from the truth. Everything we encounter provides us with exactly what we need to heal our misconceptions about ourselves and return to wholeness. We don’t need to know the origins of our issues, we just to feel them to…
Heal them.
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Jarl and Steve
For me, It’s difficult not to react negatively when some one else acts in a seemingly unreasonable manner. I can definetely identify with this and the big problem is not letting the emotion get in the way of looking at myself. I always thought I was so smart now I feel like I know so little. Love these emails and I share them often.
Thanks for your comment Steve! And thank you for sharing our messages. Becoming conscious of our conditioning does take work. But when we use the opportunity to feel our emotions rather than react and project blame outward, we can heal the wound that their behavior activated. Each time someone aggravates you, it’s an opportunity to learn about why you feel that way. (why you feel irritated rather than compassionate, which is what you’d feel if you accepted yourself totally.) 🙂
I just wanted to say thank you for all the wonderful, uplifting and freely given wisdom – it’s enough to restore my faith in humanity and life in general. You are truly wonderful people!
Barton
Wow Barton, How sweet! Thank you.