TODAY’S LIFE LESSON: inspires us to take a closer look at how we process our information and determine what direction we will take as a result of how we react. It is so easy just to instinctively reject what is being said or heard because it makes us uncomfortable. But when you realize that within that discomfort there is a truth trying to surface into your awareness that can help you resolve some of your inner battles, it is worth taking an extra moment to engage in seeing it differently.
We do not react to things that are not the truth. We are clearly able to dismiss it and not let it rock our world, or mess with our mind. When there is an element of truth to something, our inner reactor can go off and it becomes a point of focus or conversation. The true art of listening allows us to take the comment in and turn it around in different ways to see what part of it is ringing our bells or triggering our reactions. The gift is always worth the effort and once you realize this, our conversations can become a wonderful source of enlightenment for ourselves. Just don’t expect others to be excited about your discoveries or ahaha moments. Usually when we are in a place of waking up to a new truth, there is someone who has been the source of the trigger that will be somewhat upset or offended that we took things the way we did.
Every conversation has the potential to gift us with a deeper understanding, or a higher awareness of ourselves in how we hear things, how we learn things, and how we ultimately have the choice to respond with gratitude and compassion or resentment and rejection. The old way is to react and act ‘as if’ we have been offended or hurt. That is and always will be a choice. The outcome of that choice will lift us up, or tear us down . . . either way we learn, but one is so much nicer to work with than the other. Learning to laugh at ourselves and the situation instead of being offended and hurt is a sign of mastery.
LISTEN= truly hearing what is said without reacting inappropriately
LEARN= honouring what is said as a gift of wisdom being shared
LAUGH= the release of energy that sets our soul free from our inner reactor