Thriving in the Worst of Times

Part One: Guidelines for the Spiritual Seeker

Your challenges do not make you stronger.
It is your ability to find resolution that does.

We are hearing about the direst of circumstances especially with housing foreclosures and the stock market instability. The stress level worldwide is possibly higher than it ever has been in living history when we consider the impact of economic issues and natural disasters. Regardless of the specifics of your unique personal challenges, there are certain steps the spiritual seeker can take to find resolution.

Here are the three quintessential guidelines for coping effectively in the worst of times:

1) Resist nothing
2) Trust everything is in Divine order
3) Act when Called to do so

Let’s first look at these guidelines in more depth and then at some examples of them in action:

1) Resist nothing
Be fully present in your life. This allows you to be aware everything that is happening. Be fully of the world and of the day that has been gifted to you. Allow every aspect of your life, whether you label it ‘positive’ or ‘negative,’ to be expressed. Listen openly to What Is.

2) Trust everything is in Divine order
If you are worried or stressed, you are resisting the Truth of What Is and attempting to control the outcome. You can not manage what you do not understand. It is most important to develop the wisdom that tells you when to act on what you are meant to manage, and when to let go. When you are not able to make a decision or fathom the complexities of a situation then stop, sit quietly and consciously let it go. Release your challenge to the Divine and Trust. If you are meant to manage the situation or have overlooked an aspect of it that you are meant to contemplate, it will stay front and center in your life and require your attention again. You can not make a mistake – as long as you stay open and Trust.

3) Act when Called to do so…not out of emotion or thought. Sometimes the world or your life is too complicated for you to understand. You can not manage any aspect of life without some basic information about the dilemma. When you do not have the knowledge you need to respond effectively, it is not possible for you to find resolution. Sit still until Called from a place deeper than thought or emotion. Do this until you have your answers. This could be a few minutes – or a lifetime. It is simply not possible for you to manage or correct what you do not fully comprehend.

Answering the Call is a spiritual mission.

How to Recognize a Call to Action that is from your Heart

• The Call will spontaneously come to you.
• The Call will seem to be from outside of your logical mind or outside of yourself.
• You will feel the need to speak or act in accordance with certain or specific information that is clear to you.

You can, of course, override an impulse that is pure and of Divine Inspiration. It is in your resistance that you bring yourself back to the beginning of your spiritual growth curve where you are unknowing, untrusting and suffering. You will be returned to the beginning of your struggle, not as punishment, but with the Loving intention for you to revisit your challenges and find resolution.

• Resistance impedes your ability to find resolution.
• Trust allows you to Listen Openly and tap into the Divine within.
• Acting when the Call is clear and meaningfully offers resolution, one that is both self-fulfilling and broader than self-fulfillment.

The action that serves self and others
is the one to embrace.

More specifics and examples of how to thrive in the worst of times in the next issue of The Wellspring. Not a subscriber! CLICK HERE and join an international community of spiritual seekers.

The more honed our plan and the deeper our Trust, the smoother we flow with the Call.

Next Posting: Thriving in the Worst of Times…Part Two: Examples and How To