Thriving in the Worst of Times

Part Two: Resist Nothing

A chaotic tornado whips through most of our lives today taking away our sense of comfort and Inner Peace. It is tearing everything away and redistributing and restructuring What Is. Yesterday’s assumptions are being dashed against economic instability and our personal losses. Global changes to What Is have affected each and every one of us.

But this means opportunity abounds! because everything is being scattered, redistributed and redirected. You can either Surrender and ride with the wind – or not. We are all going for this crazy ride regardless!

Resist Nothing

We have been taught to listen to our fear. Our vigilance keeps us safe. This is true in the physical world, but when meeting challenges from a broader spiritual perspective, the rules are slightly different. We have to look behind and into our fear. As spiritual beings living on Earth, we must Trust our instincts, and at the same time, resist nothing spiritually.

Here is a beginning explanation of how to do this:

Do your best to be fully present in your life. Presume everything that touches your life is absolutely essential for your personal growth.

This goes not mean you are supposed to dive into or embrace everything that crosses your path. It means that in order to be fully present in life, you should aspire to being aware of everything that is happening.

Imagine yourself as being 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 even if you find this difficult. Listen openly to What Is without judgment or expectations.

Fear is Here

There are two ways that fear can manifest in your life. Both start with confusion and end in either painful inaction or impulsive action. Either way the response is inauthentic and reaps an outcome off target from that which you originally intended.

Let’s look at these two responses more closely.
Confusion and Painful Inaction

Sometimes our fear confuses our ability to think or emote our way out of our challenges, and we are paralyzed.

When fear inhibits your actions, you go into mental or emotional overload, can not process the specifics of What Is – and stop moving completely. Your fear of your perceived choices clouds your ability to see the Truth or the Divine inner core of What Is. You dig in your heels, close your eyes and refuse to step forward into what you think is dangerous.

But the people behind you on the road of life will be bumping into you, and then inevitably circling around you and continuing their lives. If you choose painful inaction, you will feel bruised and alone, the loss of your traveling companions obvious. Although this choice will feel painful, it will also feel familiar.

Confusion and Impulsive Action

Other times our fear confuses our ability to think or emote our way out of our challenges, and we act inappropriately or impulsively.

When fear distorts your actions, and you bolt into an impulsive or dramatic response to feel safe, you will overshoot the Divine inner core of What Is. You will undoubtedly feel a level of resolve, but it will be short lived because your demons will catch up to you, and your fear will be resurrected.

This will happen not because you are being punished (that would be a perception not a Truth) but because you are Divinely Loved and have not received the message that is being gifted to you. The gift was actually embedded in the fear!

As with the response of paralyzed inaction, where you can feel alone and abandoned, on the impulsive action trajectory, you can feel likewise. In this instance, you can overshoot your companions (and clear thinking!) and feel alone – and again, this would feel familiar to you.

As a spiritual seeker you are meant to act wisely and independently, but this never creates loss or abandonment.

Do your best to receive the world As Is.

Everything in your life is processed through your life experience and will trigger your unique response. It is the resistance that the spiritual seeker recognizes with respect, journals around, and then responds to wisely.

Your assignments then as a seeker are to 1) receive everything, 2) acknowledge What Is with eyes and Heart open, 3) reflect and journal.

Whatever your response, it is about you not the event itself because absolutely everything is in Divine Order.

Resist nothing.
Drop into fear and confusion.
Move beyond painful inaction and impulsive actions.
Find a deeper understanding.


Next Posting...Part Three: Trust Everything is in Divine Order