03-16-2012, 06:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-16-2012, 07:46 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
(03-16-2012, 05:37 PM)Oceania Wrote: i don't. explain.
OK. Here are some scenarios based on real-life examples of people I know.
A. A lady who is very good at psychometry and also an art dealer. She has a recurring pattern of spending money before she receives it. Basically keeps getting hoodwinked into bunk deals that fall through at the last minute. So she's borrowed money from all of her friends and family at times to make ends meet. Occasionally, a deal does come though. But somehow, very little of the money goes back to paying her friends and family back the money she borrowed.
B. Another lady who has a gift for communicating with animals is also a relationship counselor. Also can't seem to keep a man around. They keep betraying her- she can't figure out why. Ironically, it seems to have something to do with a failure to accept the more animalistic side of men. Deep down she fears being intimate with men. But on the surface, she styles herself as a "Goddess worshiper" and makes all sorts of derogatory remarks about men as if they are spiritually inferior to women.
C. A dude who is a sheer genius. Besides his own ideas, he has a knack for connecting with others who innovate. He wants to help bring all of these wonderful new things to the world. But his diet consists of massive amounts of red meats, sugary snacks, and little fresh food. Beyond this, he never takes a moments rest, always working intently on some project or another. He later dies of colon cancer.
What is going on with these people? Their hearts are all in the right place... there is no doubt that they are service-to-others oriented. Why can't they just seem to "get it together"? Is this what they came here to do? Are they "fulfilling their mission"?
I am suggesting the answer has something to do with their failure to address their own internal imbalances. One lacks self-worth. The second hasn't dealt with her fear of intimacy. The third fails to perceive the value in being nurturing toward the self.
Deep down, they all know what their issues are. What stops them from attending to these? I propose it is a misunderstanding which says that serving others means denying the self. In each case, they have succumbed to some sort of guilt or shame or fear which prevents them from working on the self. They are stuck in a dualistic mindset which says it is EITHER serving self OR serving others, rather than serving BOTH the self AND others. Thus their efforts become thwarted.
The Irony with a capital "I" is when these people shake their fists at the sky in frustration, and ask for help, they reject the answer that is given to them. Work on the self. Attend to the self. Develop the self. Go within. But they say NO NO NO it can't be that! Some go so far as to believe it is the "dark side" trying to trick them and "keep them off their path". But there is no trickery here. If they did the inner work necessary, the outer things would take care of themselves quite effortlessly.
If the first found self-worth and combined her psychic gifts with her vocation, she could probably command thousands of dollars each for psychometry readings on famous art pieces and pay off her debts in a short time.
If the second got honest with herself about how she uses judgment to mask fear, she would stop attracting disingenuous men, and instead have a great relationship from which to draw form as an example to her clients.
If the third learned the value of nourishing his body... well... he would still be here.