My concious choices relative to the right question, "Will this choice propel me toward an inspiring future, or will it keep me stuck in the past?", has unlocked startling hidden darknesses within me, but has also enabled Love to flow into those nooks and crannies. Through this process I have been able to refine my vision map, making it clearer and more authentic, so that it truly answers the call of my soul.
The absolute Truth that I have been able to fully integrate within me by asking myself this right question over the past two weeks is the complete knowing and understanding of how we totally douse our flames when we allow ourselves to become emotionally attached to people, events and things. When we allow ourselves to become emotionally attached to anyone or anything, we are giving away our power. Our power comes directly from our internal flame. The only way we are able to allow ourselves to give away our power is by being in a state of unconciousness. We are only able to emotionally detach when we have the full awareness that we have unconciously allowed ourselves to become emotionally attached. It is through our emotional attachments that we are slammed, over and over again, by the freight train of emotional pain, emotional chaos and emotional manipulation. Nothing outside of ourselves can cause us to have those experiences. Other people DO NOT cause us to experience emotional pain. It is our emotional ATTACHMENT to the other person that causes us to experience the pain. Thus, we must emotionally DETACH from everything outside of ourselves. This is the greatest act of Self-love that we can commit. No one can do this for us. No one can or ever will love us as much as we are able to love ourselves.
"The birth of detachment in man assures him of the birth of bliss in him" (Sathya Sai Baba, 1993, p. 43). "Detachment alone can lead one to the awareness of the immortal Self. That is the price one has to offer to receive the reward. Give up and gain, that is the Divine Law" (Sathya Sai Baba, 1971, p.183).
The reason people feel like they cannot live without him, her or it is because they really cannot. They cannot because they have turned over all their power to the other person or thing. In doing so, they have reduced their own internal flame to a mere smoldering ember. When we turn over our power to another individual, thereby becoming emotionally attached, we have given all the fuel for our flame to their flame. We try to feed ourselves from that other person's flame. We are unable to do this, and so we start to feel suffocated. We cannot breathe because our flame is slowly dying. We have very little to nothing left within us to continue to fuel ourselves. As soon as we become conscious of this and emotionally detach, immediately our smoldering ember bursts into a flicker once more. This little flicker grows stronger and stronger as we remain emotionally detached and regain our personal power.
Stand strong in your power. Feed your flame daily to keep it roaring. Propel yourself towards an inspiring future!
Over the course of this week, we will be focused on the right question, Chapter 5, Will this choice bring me long-term fullfillment or will it bring me short-term gratification?
Until next week, ask yourself each day, "How am I going to love and honor myself today" (Ford, 2003, p. 147)?
REFERENCES:
Ford, D. (2003). The right questions: Ten essential questions to guide you to an extraordinary life. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc.
Sathya Sai Baba. (1993). Summer showers in Brindavan (Trans.). Sri Sathya Sai Books and Publications Trust, India: Prashanti Niliyam.
Sathya Sai Baba. (1971, August 24). Sathya Sai speaks (Vol 11, Trans.) Sri Sathya Sai Books and Publications Trust, India: Prashanti Niliyam.
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