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| Peace Begins in your Heart Our experience in the world reflects our inner state - yes, this is a kind of magic but that is the reality, the world is miraculous. By Peter Shepherd |
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Peace Begins in Your Heart
Current events have demonstrated a tremendous desire, on the behalf of
perhaps the majority of people in the world, for peace in their lives. They are
no longer satisfied with the mentality of political conflict, which endangers
economic progress and human rights and freedoms. But most importantly, I
feel that many people are now aware that if we want peace in the world, first
we need to make peace with our own lives. It is human nature that needs to
change, and we are capable of making such a transformation.
Our experience in the world reflects our inner state - yes, this is a kind of
magic but that is the reality, the world is miraculous. I have seen so much
evidence of this when I - or a student or client - have made a genuine shift in
our belief system that resolves an inner conflict, then very soon our real-world
circumstances change accordingly. We mirror our internal state - our
resistance/fear and acceptance/love - in our personal life experience. As a
group we mirror our consciousness in world events. It is our personal
responsibility to become aware of our contribution to the group
consciousness, to help create a better world for ourselves and our loved ones
- which ultimately means for everyone.
So what wars do we wage inside? The purposes and goals that we hold
dearly - some we may have brought into this life or felt most strongly as a
child or young person - are often compromised in the face of problems that
we discover in trying to achieve them, and we may forget about them (actually
suppress them) and opt for safer solutions. Playing the safe game is a sad
conflict with the game we really (still) want to play. We have become
someone else, a substitute for our true self. Reinforcing this position are the
attachments we have come to cling on to, the fears we may have of losing
control of our safe space, the resistance we feel against elements of change,
and the judgments we make that prevent acceptance of what is.
To better our position, to be able to open up our space and express our true
desires, we first need to come to terms with our situation. Our true nature is
an expression of love and that is the quality that we need first to rediscover in
our consciousness.
Before we can contribute, through our consciousness, toward peace in the
world we need to make peace with ourselves. Before we can love others
unconditionally we need to be able to genuinely love ourselves. Before we
can forgive and cease making judgments of others we need to learn how to
forgive ourselves and warmly accept ourselves just as we are.
We all do things we are not proud of, we wouldn't be human if we didn't.
Something that affects others in a way that we would not be willing to
experience ourselves. Sometimes we do something that we know at the time
is wrong, but it seems like the best solution to our situation. Or maybe we are
tempted to put our own interests first. Other times we may be carried away
by emotions of anger or jealousy and do something out of spite we may later
regret. Or we don't do something, like helping a friend in need, that we know
we really should have. Alternatively we may have the best of intentions but
things go wrong, we make a mistake or realize something we have done was
harmful, even though we didn't mean it to be.
The natural tendency when we do something wrong is to try to justify our
actions, to make ourselves right. Or we may say the action was not wrong, it
was deserved, making the other person wrong. Both of these are avoiding the
reality, by denying our own sense of right and wrong and our own
responsibility for our actions. We avoid our feelings of guilt by pretending it
was nothing wrong that we did, indeed it was right. We avoid our feelings of
shame (feeling bad about how others perceive us) by pretending that it is the
other who should be ashamed.
We need to drop our defenses, drop the lies we may have told ourselves to
hide the truth, face up to the reality of our actions and their consequences -
and forgive ourselves.
There is a big bonus to being realistic and truthful - we can learn the valuable
lesson that the experience offers us. Indeed, it's only when we have learned
that lesson that we can let go of the past error and live our life as truly
ourselves in the present.
Life is a journey of learning and the most worthwhile learning is derived from
our personal experiences. When things go right, because we have good
information and appropriate beliefs, then our learning is reinforced by this
positive feedback. When things go wrong, because we have faulty information
and inappropriate beliefs, then we and those at the effect of our actions suffer.
But here we have a chance to learn something new. Much of our new learning
and personal growth does therefore come about as a result of painful
experiences; provided we are willing and open to learn those lessons.
Self-forgiveness recaptures the energy that you were giving away in guilt and
resistance against the past. It frees you to be yourself again - a new, happier
and wiser you.
If we can forgive ourselves then we can more easily forgive others. If we do
not feel able to forgive others then we clearly have not learned to love
ourselves. And the irony is, when we do truly love ourselves, we and others
will not even need any forgiveness, because we are able to accept the past,
present and future as it is, without judgment. Our creation. Discrimination - of
good/bad, right/wrong, ugly/beautiful - is not part of the vocabulary of love.
Copyright Peter Shepherd
www.trans4mind.com/
www.reinventingmyself.com/lawofattraction
Current events have demonstrated a tremendous desire, on the behalf of
perhaps the majority of people in the world, for peace in their lives. They are
no longer satisfied with the mentality of political conflict, which endangers
economic progress and human rights and freedoms. But most importantly, I
feel that many people are now aware that if we want peace in the world, first
we need to make peace with our own lives. It is human nature that needs to
change, and we are capable of making such a transformation.
Our experience in the world reflects our inner state - yes, this is a kind of
magic but that is the reality, the world is miraculous. I have seen so much
evidence of this when I - or a student or client - have made a genuine shift in
our belief system that resolves an inner conflict, then very soon our real-world
circumstances change accordingly. We mirror our internal state - our
resistance/fear and acceptance/love - in our personal life experience. As a
group we mirror our consciousness in world events. It is our personal
responsibility to become aware of our contribution to the group
consciousness, to help create a better world for ourselves and our loved ones
- which ultimately means for everyone.
So what wars do we wage inside? The purposes and goals that we hold
dearly - some we may have brought into this life or felt most strongly as a
child or young person - are often compromised in the face of problems that
we discover in trying to achieve them, and we may forget about them (actually
suppress them) and opt for safer solutions. Playing the safe game is a sad
conflict with the game we really (still) want to play. We have become
someone else, a substitute for our true self. Reinforcing this position are the
attachments we have come to cling on to, the fears we may have of losing
control of our safe space, the resistance we feel against elements of change,
and the judgments we make that prevent acceptance of what is.
To better our position, to be able to open up our space and express our true
desires, we first need to come to terms with our situation. Our true nature is
an expression of love and that is the quality that we need first to rediscover in
our consciousness.
Before we can contribute, through our consciousness, toward peace in the
world we need to make peace with ourselves. Before we can love others
unconditionally we need to be able to genuinely love ourselves. Before we
can forgive and cease making judgments of others we need to learn how to
forgive ourselves and warmly accept ourselves just as we are.
We all do things we are not proud of, we wouldn't be human if we didn't.
Something that affects others in a way that we would not be willing to
experience ourselves. Sometimes we do something that we know at the time
is wrong, but it seems like the best solution to our situation. Or maybe we are
tempted to put our own interests first. Other times we may be carried away
by emotions of anger or jealousy and do something out of spite we may later
regret. Or we don't do something, like helping a friend in need, that we know
we really should have. Alternatively we may have the best of intentions but
things go wrong, we make a mistake or realize something we have done was
harmful, even though we didn't mean it to be.
The natural tendency when we do something wrong is to try to justify our
actions, to make ourselves right. Or we may say the action was not wrong, it
was deserved, making the other person wrong. Both of these are avoiding the
reality, by denying our own sense of right and wrong and our own
responsibility for our actions. We avoid our feelings of guilt by pretending it
was nothing wrong that we did, indeed it was right. We avoid our feelings of
shame (feeling bad about how others perceive us) by pretending that it is the
other who should be ashamed.
We need to drop our defenses, drop the lies we may have told ourselves to
hide the truth, face up to the reality of our actions and their consequences -
and forgive ourselves.
There is a big bonus to being realistic and truthful - we can learn the valuable
lesson that the experience offers us. Indeed, it's only when we have learned
that lesson that we can let go of the past error and live our life as truly
ourselves in the present.
Life is a journey of learning and the most worthwhile learning is derived from
our personal experiences. When things go right, because we have good
information and appropriate beliefs, then our learning is reinforced by this
positive feedback. When things go wrong, because we have faulty information
and inappropriate beliefs, then we and those at the effect of our actions suffer.
But here we have a chance to learn something new. Much of our new learning
and personal growth does therefore come about as a result of painful
experiences; provided we are willing and open to learn those lessons.
Self-forgiveness recaptures the energy that you were giving away in guilt and
resistance against the past. It frees you to be yourself again - a new, happier
and wiser you.
If we can forgive ourselves then we can more easily forgive others. If we do
not feel able to forgive others then we clearly have not learned to love
ourselves. And the irony is, when we do truly love ourselves, we and others
will not even need any forgiveness, because we are able to accept the past,
present and future as it is, without judgment. Our creation. Discrimination - of
good/bad, right/wrong, ugly/beautiful - is not part of the vocabulary of love.
Copyright Peter Shepherd
www.trans4mind.com/
www.reinventingmyself.com/lawofattraction
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