At first is painful, and sometimes gut wrenching, but that opens a new understanding of the true meaning of life for me. I didn’t deserve it…….Īs I live my everyday life, I realize that I keep receiving experiences that I didn’t ask for, and I have to work through them. I must remind myself of this choice often because my ego wants to pull me back into being a victim and wanting to ask again and again: Why did this happen? Or why did it happen to me? …. ![]() In my life’s journey, I have decided that my only goal in this life is inner peace, and for that to happen, I have to make some unconventional choices such us forgiving everyone who has ever hurt me, is hurting me now, and could hurt me in the future. The older I get, the more sense it makes. Somewhere I read that man’s longest journey is only 18 inches long, from the head to the heart. When the heart and the mind are at odds, the mind wins. The heart will bring inner peace and tranquility the mind will bring you more sorrow and suffering. On the other hand, the heart naturally wants to focus on the healing path, and here it is where the struggle lingers: Do I follow my heart, or do I follow my mind? And that will be your choice. We must remember that our ego resides in our mind, and it will want us to hold on to the pain and suffering and the “wanting to know why things happen the way they do” to protect us from that hurt happening again. Sometimes we know why things happen the way they do but knowing does not help us feel better.Īlong my spiritual journey, I came across the work of Caroline Myss and her book, The Anatomy of the Spirit, in which she tells us to stop asking why if we really want to heal. ![]() We want to believe that if we knew the why somehow, we could move forward. And the more we ask the question why, the deeper we go into the spiral. However, when the situations are painful, life altering, and we can’t understand why they are happening to us, we are thrown on a downward spiral. ![]() When we have positive experiences, we accept them effortlessly, and we feel joy and inner peace. Learning to accept what arises in our lives can take us on a spiritual path that can help us understand life at a deeper level.
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