Tag: mind

Challenges are a blessing

Posted on by philipdodson

When we are faced with a challenge, as in a real challenge that is beyond the day-to-day stuff, then we can see just how conscious we really are.

It is easy to be at peace and joyful when nothing much is going on. The mind can be relatively silent.

Of course, challenges are there to help us to experience, to observe and ultimately grow. We grow by realising just how much the deep ingrained mind patterns, deep within our mind, are still playing.

If we can see them we can learn to dissolve them.

If everything was plain sailing, then what would be the point of life. It would provide no experiences.

We learn to go deeper into our very essence and being at every challenging moment.

If we accept that, then we can enjoy the challenges and see them as a blessing.

Denying what is

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Accepting what is sounds easy, but we are conditioned to want a different outcome to anything we do not like.

Our ego does not want to see or hear anything that doesn’t fit the story or if it feels like we are to blame.

The culture of blaming comes from the individual and collective egos and there wish not to be at fault.

If we can remove our ego from the situation, not look for blame, if we can silence our mind and its negative thoughts, then we can find accepting what has happened, and realising that what is, is always what is. It has already happened and wanting a different moment is, of course, completely futile.

Once we can get to the stage of accepting that everything that has occurred, has occurred, and we can not alter it, then we can focus on now and moving on, letting go and looking at how to deal with the reality of now.

Resisting creates fear that then leads to other emotions, pain and suffering. Inner peace is never achievable all the time we deny this present moment.

Letting go brings peace within and then we react from our true essence to things, from our soul, rather than from the mind, its ego and fears. We avoid becoming our emotions and reactions.

Everything is, as it is always, move on and enjoy now with peace within.