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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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