REVIEW YOUR MOST CHALLENGING RELATIONSHIPS! “Relationships are not measured in time, but in lessons learnt”
I invite you to observe your most challenging relationships and review: What strengths did it help you get in touch with? What limitations did it propel you to move away from? With this clearly in mind, view the two of you giving each other a backstage ‘high-five’ in congratulations for a mission well done! Feel the thankfulness!Thiswill help you, over time, to move away from anger and it’s stagnation into more positive states of interaction. BE WHAT YOU WANT! Be the change you want to be see in the world- Gandhi Make a list of all the qualities you would like in a partner. Then ask where do you embody these qualities? Work to become that you desire in another! You will draw to self that which you are! HEY-I ALREADY HAVE HIM/HER! The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create." Leonard Sweet Make a list of that a partner will bring into your life… focus on the essence rather than specifics. Now review where that essence already exists in your life, even if not through the special other. As you focus on that, you draw it to you in more intimate ways. And your focus switches from the needy lack consciousness to the positive abundant consciousness.
MIRRORS THEY ARE Consider some of the people in your life at present. Using a two-columned page, record each of these in the left-hand column. Say next to each in the right-hand column what are they reflecting to you. Or what you are projecting onto them. For example: Is there a particularly loving person in your world? What does this person tell you about yourself? Conversely, is there someone with whom you are at odds or with whom you are in conflict? Can you identify what "negative" qualities they are showing you that you have? Can you see a pattern in all that you have recorded? Explain in writing to yourself what this pattern is (or what the patterns are, if there is more than one pattern).
BE HAPPY AND MAKE HAPPY! Do you feel powerless in relationships? Always doing what others want? Every fortnight do one thing more for self and one thing less just to please another… set a pace which is easy- and gradually arrive at the right balance! As you fulfill self more and more, you will automatically be there for others in meaningful ways. MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL WHO IS THE PRETTIEST OT THEM ALL List the qualities you admire and dislike in others- from close friends, to role models and public figures. Tick of those you feel you can identify with at some level. Highlight those you feel are just not you. These are your shadows aspects- positive and negative! You will ‘meet’ these people in life and dreams till you can claim the positive shadow aspects; and embrace or move away from the negative ones! THE OTHER IS ME! Love and accept self and you will accept others; accept others as they are and you will accept self! Make a list of qualities you find difficult to accept in others; view how they are only projections ; forgive, accept and embrace that aspect of yourself! How do you reach from the ‘other’ your mirror to you? In relation to the quality you dislike or feel annoyed by, ask yourself “why why why till you reach the i” Some examples: from the book omni and from my workshops I disapprove of people who charge money for spiritual services – why? It makes it impure (why) Spirit should not be tarnished by money (why) God is purity, Money is not so (why) Money is materialistic (why) Matter is separate from god (so) What is not god is not good/worthy I am matter (so) I am separate from god I am not worthy!
I disapprove of snobs –why They think they are special (why) - They think money and clothes makes them sacrosanct (so) - They are only hiding their insecurities ( so) - I am insecure as I am (why) - I am not good enough I disapprove of girls in sexy clothes –why - India isn’t the country to dress like that (why) - They look sexy and its isn’t good in public (why) - It isn’t right to do things people find bad - I don’t have the guts to things I would like to! I disapprove of girls in sexy clothes –why -They look so cheap (why) -They look sexy (so) - They can attract my husband! - My husband finds me a frump!THE 4 STEP EUREKA! OOPS! A simple way to reach how the issue you have with another is really about you and get fresh perspectives all along the way! State the quality or situation you are having trouble with and free write the answers to the following: 1) What bothers me about this person? What are he/she doing that upsets me? 2) Why is he/she behaving this way? What can the underlying reason be? 3) What would I like to say to this person? If I could say anything at all that may help change this situation, what would it be? 4) What do I want from this person? Then re –read your words as dialogue with self! What judgments do you carry about self: shoulds… should nots? What do you dislike in self? What do you need to give or enable in yourself? HOW MANY OF THESE LIMITING BELIEFS/ SENTENCES DO YOU IDENTIFY WITH? It is selfish to love and appreciate my self I feel arrogant to acknowledge my positive qualities Love doesn’t last I can never trust…people are always out to cheat you.. Happy families are too good to be true Best friends working togther destroys the friendship Men and women just have to fight after all they are mars and venous People don’t change Being there for him /her means they take me for granted I cannot live …be happy…without him/her… He/she is all I live for… Marriages are doomed … I am not good enough…why would anyone want me… Some positive statements: Reality conspires tirelessly in my favor… I so love my self as I am! I have some great strengths! I always meet the right people.. Everyone who has come into my life has been good for me in the larger picture I am surrounded by soul mates…good for me in someway or the other Why would anyone want to hurt me? People change so beautifully at the right time..
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