Are You Awake Now?

This little experience here on Earth, that we call life, is especially designed to teach you and to challenge you.

Each lesson, well, let's call them what they really are - TESTS... provides the perfect environment to stimulate the exact growth you need at this time.

When faced with a particularly difficult test, rather than ask "Why me?", question the lesson's objective.

Is it teaching you to love more or how to forgive?

How to be in the midst of chaos but have incredible peace?

Is it trying to WAKE YOU UP?

It appears that our trials and tribulations are increasing in size and magnitude. Every system - political, economic, religious, etc... trembles. Our planet and its people agitated and challenged to new limits.

I find that with each challenge, my learning curve to finding peace, love, and forgiveness shortens. A challenge 5 years ago took me two years make peace with. A bigger challenge 2 years ago, took 6 months. A latest, greatest challenge, two weeks.

Finding that space does not make the problem magically disappear. Unfortunately, time has to work out the problem. It does however shift our experience. So that even though the issue is still raging, your soul is not.

The goal, I suppose, is that the moment we are faced with trouble we move right into that zen space of acceptance and peace and letting go, rather than wrestle with it for weeks and months or years.

Or maybe the goal is zen in all times and spaces so that the challenge never causes us to flinch in the first place?

Namaste,

C H E Z

 

Comments

[Kat]

Love what you wrote here! Maybe the goal is never to reach a specific state, but to just keep making visible progress. Sounds like you are on the path!

[Aimee Bogush]

I'm visiting from CED and finding your site inspiring.

"So that even though the issue is still raging, your soul is not."

This in particular spoke to me. It is a lesson I am constantly relearning and my learning curve is also shortening. It's really something. Most of the time I'm gentle with myself and that I'm figuring it out, other times it's frustrating - not *this* again, I'm still reacting to *this*? gah!

I find myself often drawn to "fighting the good fight" and often I get wrapped up in it, it pours into every cell and I become the "striving against injustice." Your next post about energy spoke to me as well...losing knowing where I end and the other begins. Detachment, clarity, trust...peace, calm, boundaries...breathing...letting struggles happen (for me and others) and learning from them...I'm working on all of this....

I appreciate reading your insights and inspiring to hear your experience. Thank you for sharing.
~Aimee

[Shannan Sinclair]

Thank you for visiting.... I love hearing from people who are experiencing the same **stuff** I am!!!!
Shannan