“I’m already 4 sessions into your course and I still have not made a breakthrough.”
She did not say it as a complaint or defiance, she just mentioned it with pain.
She expects herself that after almost 40 years of living with certain perceptions / thoughts, with certain habits, she will be able, in just 4 sessions, to act differently. She is no different than most of us.
We live in a world that trains us to look for immediate results.
Reality stars are instantly famous and gain recognition over night.
We do drugs to have immediate experiences, to feel connected and emotions that make us feel alive, we fill out a lottery ticket because we dream of getting rich instantly, we sleep with people we have no emotion for in the hope that sex will fill us. We turn to psychiatric pills to immediately silence the discomfort we experience within ourselves.
The thing is, out of the all-natural desire to feel good, we are often drawn to immediate pleasures, that we pay for lots of time later.
The thing is, out of the all-natural desire to feel good, we are often drawn to immediate pleasures, that we pay for lots of time later.
When the pleasure is gone, we are left with a big and painful emptiness, because anything that gives us instant pleasure with no process to back it up, leaves us with a big emptiness. Then we try again to silence this emptiness in the immediate way we are already familiar with.
And this circle, for the most part, leaves us in exactly the same metaphorical prison.
So just before the new year, it is important that we stop and ask ourselves a few questions. Because only by asking the questions and searching for the answers, we can build a process and go through depths within ourselves that will force us to understand that our journey here has meaning. Our presence here has meaning, none of us are here by mistake or by chance.
This realization that there is value in our being here, lowers our level of suffering, because it is related to a deeper understanding – that we are here to develop many abilities within us, and therefore, when unpleasant things happen to us, they inspire us to address those places within us that seek development and growth, so that we will be more powerful. And when we are connected to our strengths we grow and we really have something to give to others. Only then can we truly be the model we want for loved ones around us. That’s when true abundance knocks on our door.
