Creating Opportunity
Sarah Maria - January 19, 2009
I was reflecting back over some challenges in my life, and developed the following insight. As usual, I would love to hear your comments and thoughts!
There is a part of us that seeks comfort and pleasure. There is certainly a part of us that wants everything to go smoothly, according to our intentions, wishes, and desires. We would rather feel pleasure than pain. We want to have things work out the way we want them to work out. We want everything to go our way. Let's take for example, a situation such as a divorce, or the death of a loved on, or the loss of a job, or any such event.
There is a part of us, or a part of me anyway, that says "Why is this happening! What have I done wrong? What can I do to make the situation better? What can I do to take away the pain? What can I do to increase the pleasure? Why me? Why now? How can I make things go my way? Etc, etc.
Do you know the voice that I am talking about by chance?
Yet then, in thinking about it, there is another part of us that is not so concerned with whether things are going our way or not. This is the part of us that expands, grows, and develops regardless of what happens in our lives. In fact, the greatest challenges in our lives often seem to make us expand and grow the most.
It seems that there is a part of us whose sole goal in life is to help us grow and expand. Life may present challenges, there may be difficulties, yet this part of ourselves helps us expand to accomodate, grow, and learn from every life experience.
When you are going through challenges, it can help to connect with this part of yourself. When you find yourself faced with a difficult situation, notice the part of you that just wants to situation to go away, be solved, etc. Then notice the part of you that is growing and developing because of this challenge.
Here are some questions to ask:
How have you changed, grown, and progressed because of this difficulty?
Who have you become as a result of this challenge?
Would you go back to who you were before the challenge if you could? Or do you appreciate how you have grown from the difficulty?
I find that looking at how I have grown and developed gives me the tools to more easily view every difficulty as an opportunity just waiting to happen...
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Posted by Sarah Maria at January 19, 2009 06:56 PM
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1. Posted by
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January 20, 2009 03:40 AM
Hello Sarah,
Happy birthday to YOU!
To your remark:
""I find that looking at how I have grown and developed gives me the tools to more easily view every difficulty as an opportunity just waiting to happen...""
I would like to say: great, keep going in this new cycle in the same way and you will reap even more riper fruits :)
Life is full of experiences and what we attract in the flow of our life always makes us grow.
Happy celebrations today in a double way.
2. Posted by
heartphone
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January 20, 2009 03:41 AM
Happy Birthday Sarah!
To be celebrating your birthday today is a magical coincidence...
Happy celebrations, the whole day in a double way!
3. Posted by
heartphone
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January 20, 2009 04:31 AM
Happy Birthday Sarah!
4. Posted by
heartphone
on
January 20, 2009 04:32 AM
Dear Sarah,
Happy birthday to you!
Creating opportunity is what is happening right now in your country.
Happy celebrations today in a double way, within and without :)
Mieke
5. Posted by
heartphone
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January 20, 2009 01:26 PM
Dear Sarah,
Happy birthday to you!
Creating opportunity is what is happening right now in your country.
Happy celebrations today in a double way, within and without :)
Mieke
6. Posted by
heartphone
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January 20, 2009 01:27 PM
Had I know where I am now years before where I had all kinds of challenges, then I would have definitely choose those challenges. May be my StupidMr.Me(in past) would have not understood? All I can truly say is, I am less stupid(jerk) compared to what I was and it is a work in progress.
All the struggle is the inner self working on the outer self from the perspective of outer self. However, outer self may not know. You could user words like lower self and higher self. Please read book " I AM THAT" by Nisarga Datta Maharaj. Start of slowly, dail 1 page and not analyze. With time something will grow in you. I had headache every time I read that book for couple of weeks. I think mind is baffled or not used to asking questions. Cheers. S.
7. Posted by
alayavijnana
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January 20, 2009 07:39 PM
Had I know where I am now years before where I had all kinds of challenges, then I would have definitely choose those challenges. May be my StupidMr.Me(in past) would have not understood? All I can truly say is, I am less stupid(jerk) compared to what I was and it is a work in progress.
All the struggle is the inner self working on the outer self from the perspective of outer self. However, outer self may not know. You could user words like lower self and higher self. Please read book " I AM THAT" by Nisarga Datta Maharaj. Start of slowly, dail 1 page and not analyze. With time something will grow in you. I had headache every time I read that book for couple of weeks. I think mind is baffled or not used to asking questions. Cheers. S.
8. Posted by
alayavijnana
on
January 20, 2009 07:39 PM
Had I know where I am now years before where I had all kinds of challenges, then I would have definitely choose those challenges. May be my StupidMr.Me(in past) would have not understood? All I can truly say is, I am less stupid(jerk) compared to what I was and it is a work in progress.
All the struggle is the inner self working on the outer self from the perspective of outer self. However, outer self may not know. You could user words like lower self and higher self. Please read book " I AM THAT" by Nisarga Datta Maharaj. Start of slowly, dail 1 page and not analyze. With time something will grow in you. I had headache every time I read that book for couple of weeks. I think mind is baffled or not used to asking questions. Cheers. S.
9. Posted by
alayavijnana
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January 20, 2009 07:40 PM
I thought I might be the last to comment.
Life is a challenge fit for a God.
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Jokers.me
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10. Posted by
Richard Thomas ∞Φ
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April 1, 2009 04:47 PM
So you were able to comment on April 1, 2009, Richard.
Is this a joke too?
11. Posted by
heartphone
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April 19, 2009 02:15 PM
Well, Sarah, looks I created an opportunity to
keep commenting on Intentblog :)
12. Posted by
heartphone
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April 19, 2009 02:18 PM
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Hello Sarah,
Happy birthday to YOU!
To your remark:
""I find that looking at how I have grown and developed gives me the tools to more easily view every difficulty as an opportunity just waiting to happen...""
I would like to say: great, keep going in this new cycle in the same way and you will reap even more riper fruits :)
Life is full of experiences and what we attract in the flow of our life always makes us grow.
Happy celebrations today in a double way.