This week has been amazing for me! I don’t know if it was the planetary alignment of 7 planets along with the new moon in Pisces and Mars going out of retrograde … or what. What I know is that things have fallen into place really well recently. There were such obvious synchronicities everywhere. Things fit like detailed puzzle pieces. The kind of stuff where you have to just step back and watch it flow. However, today when I worked with some clients, I became a bit heavy-hearted. This happens enough for me to know that equanimity is a skill for me to learn and practice.
My heavy-heartedness came from seeing a client’s very exclusive car in the parking lot and knowing the level of unhappiness she lives in. So many people have no idea how to find Joy in their lives. You can even have excessive amounts of money and that doesn’t even do it. It is a feeling of separation rooted in all people.
Most people can only find joy in the external rather than the internal. I think most find their self-worth in owning things or the amount of money one may have or there successes. Their identity get wrapped up in that. Then, we tend to compare ourselves to others and judge based on differences. I became so sad when I considered how so many people do not know how to have happiness. It took a $500,000 car to trigger my heart.
Happiness comes from being in Union with our Creator. We must love ourselves and others unconditionally letting everyone make their own choices. We are to have Joy as a purpose and live in Freedom and Appreciation and be empowered to do anything we want to. Our Joy doesn’t come from things or control or circumstances. It is found in Love. The saddest thing is … I do not know how to help people with overly abundant resources like excessive wealth. They have to hit a bottom and their money prohibits this. It takes a life or death health situation to possibly shake their lives. This unfortunately doesn’t even work frequently. It is truly a curse to be able to write a check to relieve problems. This level of wealth never seems to hit a bottom and allow failure or a collapse.
A big lesson I have and still learning is that I am not here to rescue people. I am just like their money if I bail everyone out of bad situations. You have to start sinking in the water to learn to swim. People have to want to change. No one is listening to you when they do not ask for help. My answers are also just for me and your answers are for you. I can give a perspective and an account of what works for me, but it is for them that they have to take what resonates and leave the rest. I can inspire from my actions and that is the best thing I can ever do. Living my life in my Truth and flowing down the river letting it take me to new places is how I can inspire. Maybe some of these folk will notice my contentment, happiness, simplicity, connection to our Creator and become hopeful for a better way.
I still struggle at times with not letting go of wanting to help. I think this is fairly arrogant. I act as if others cannot help themselves and I have the real answers. Life is a series of tests with obstacles to help us grow. I will continue to find myself in situations like this that challenge me. I must ignore other people struggling for their best interest and understand that they are learning when they are in crisis. That is true enlightenment. It seems so counterproductive to me to not help, but I must recognize everyone has the strength to save themselves or ask for help. I want to love others by letting them struggle and splash and gulp some water as they flounder around. This seems wrong to allow, but it is so right. I must allow everyone to be in their own choice and in their own situation they have created from their choices. I was once in this situation and had to scream out for help to our almighty Creator. Suddenly, things started to change. My wonderful sister gave me the book “The Power of Now” and it really resonated. Never had I understood the present moment and that woke me up. I started seeking Truth and Wisdom. I started learning to swim.
Letting others help themselves is a hard thing for me to understand and learn, but it is truly my current lesson. I am so thankful for these situations I find myself in as they are such a gift. Letting people struggle and gulp water until they reach out for a life preserver is truly the tough love example. Would I want someone bailing me out of every lesson I am presented? I would never wake up. Allowing failure and death is the greatest help I can give to a brother or sister. This is the paradox I am understanding. I am choosing Now to learn this lesson.
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