Stop Gift-Wrapping the Garbage |
Posted: March 17, 2015 |
Stop Gift-Wrapping the Garbage "In my defenselessness, my safety lies." -CIM We spend a lot of time protecting ourselves from our problems and their emotions, don't we? In fact, what advice do we get or give about this? "Stop dwelling in the past! Stop giving it any power! " Well, you can bury the body, but sooner or later it's gonna start to smell... What if this very behavior of "burying" was reinforcing and strengthening the hold of the past? Ever think you might be making things worse? You can't just bury the problem and hope it goes away. It doesn't. Here's how: Become willing to see what the problem is revealing to you about yourselves... calling burying the problem "protecton" is nothing but a lie. It is a survival tool for the small self, not the Soul self. What we are protecting is our resistance to change. That's right. Your protection is what's holding you back. Consider that any life event is a means to shift us from our false understanding to the truth. We need to develop a new perspective on what we considered an unwanted event. Our small self will point to something or someone outside of us as being the cause of suffering and problems. Of course it does--because you can't control the external....plus it's very easy to judge and blame vs take responsbility. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. We're not kids, anymore. We can choose to stop suffering. All the excuses and distractions for why we still hurt ourselves are just gift wrapping the garbage. But what the ego REALLY doesn't want you to know? Every "problem" carries its own solution. Now go back and re-read the CIM quote...
Butter side up, baby. Annie
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