To be able to center yourself and have peace with every situation you come across (good and bad). To embrace difficult situations without becoming defensive or reactive. It is the concept of one unit...a mind and body dynamic. Your body must be relaxed in stressful situations with your mind having the capability of shifting attention and awareness in order not to create resistance. Try seeing beyond the situation rather than what is right in front of you. Into the interior of an issue...from your center, you see, say, and do something entirely different from what you see, say, and do when relating to the situation right in front of you.
Everything that is for you and against you has its roots within you. If you resist what seems to resist you, you strengthen that resistance that keeps you constrained to your past and makes your future predictable. It is understandable that we tend to armor ourselves when life looks and feels scary. It is human nature to react to a negative situation in a defensive way in order to feel safe and to be okay. We tend to justify our defensiveness by finding ourselves victims of circumstances. We are driven to avoid what makes us feel unsafe. Ask yourself what kinds of situations put you on the defensive? How much energy do you spend protecting or defending yourself?
Now look at the concept of wholeness-purpose, principle, and nonresistance. The true essence of your nature and spiritual identity. Wholeness being the foundation of your being. It is essential for you to see the relationship between thoughts of fear or lack of thoughts, which will manifest themselves as experiences as if someone is against you and your life is not right. We must take responsibility for our fear-based actions and the hurt they have caused us. Unfortunately, you can't experience inner peace when you are worried that everything in your world isn't right. The world we live in is a place of opposites and competing tensions, BUT THESE FORCES ARE NOT A POWER OVER US, UNLESS WE ALLOW THEM TO BE. Conflicts, challenges, and interpersonal difficulties are dynamic energies within which we can react and move appropriately remembering that these forces are not against us unless we allow them to be.
Think of a storm system-displacement, movement, and friction. The forces all around the system build in intensity with temperature, wind velocity, jet stream, humidity, etc combining to form a distinct rotation of influence...Your hurricane is officially born. Now think of competing needs, wants, and values combined with misperception, defensiveness, and the need to be right...an energetic field of influence of interpersonal conflict is created. What is in the center of the hurricane- the eye of the storm. A single point in space where the forces of the storm are in perfect equilibrium. At the center/eye of the storm there is peace, calm, clarity and stillness. That center for you is wholeness and spiritual essence. It is at this center point you can experience the storm without resisting it. It is at YOUR CENTER that you experience peace, stillness, and calmness. If there is conflict in your life, look at things differently, know that your wholeness is at the center of it. By knowing and understanding this you can stop resisting it and instead shift your attention and awareness...and experience the conflict from the center. We have a choice in how we look at our life experiences and conflicts. How you choose to relate to your experiences is what your experiences become. The quality of your life arises from within you. We are all human beings who have dealt with conflict at some point in our life and with that conflict comes reaction. We allow our thoughts and feelings to create mental and emotional states that influence how we relate and respond to what is happening in our life. Looking deeper, our emotional responses arise from what we make the situation mean. There is an invisible realm that exists and we fail to see this realm due to our way of thinking and our assumptions toward the conflict.
Life happens through us. By seeing the invisible, you are able to see the relationship between one's viewing point and the factors that create a person's life experience. Some say our viewing point is like a rear view mirror...Objects are closer then they appear, concealing how things really are. We have become use to this way of thinking-a distorted way of looking at things. It is this invisible realm of consciousness that is the energy of principles we must learn to see and recognize as influencing our life experiences. These principles intervene in our attention and awareness, which in turn will determine our viewing point. It is important to fulfill your wholeness/center by shifting your attention to new and healthier viewing points. Live from your wholeness...Learn to see-to see how you are looking at your life. Free yourself with interacting with your conditioned mind, and begin looking deeper and beyond the things that are invisible. Your wholeness is your spiritual legacy-it is not what you have but what has you that enables you to embrace life completely. "THOSE WHO CAN SEE THE INVISIBLE CAN DO THE IMPOSSIBLE."
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