November 1, 2007
November is a month that represents thanksgiving & gratitude. We are all blessed and have much to be thankful for. For some inspiration on gratitude and its importance in manifesting, please check out my article, "Gratitude Is In" (May 2007). The energy behind "thoughts of gratitude" is super powerful...it brings you to a feel good place, which is so important in manifesting!
It's easy to be thankful for the good things in your life. This month however, I encourage you to take gratitude a bit further and be thankful for the things or people in your life that irritate you. For the irritants in your life are truly gifts. They are opportunities to learn and to grow. When you are in the throws of a situation though, it may not always feel like an opportunity to grow and it may be hard to see that there is a lesson to learn. But, if we can take a step back and look at what is irritating us, we may find out some interesting things about ourselves. Irritations can help bring some awareness to our thinking and what we are attracting in ourselves. They show us how we can improve ourselves and ultimately our lives. You can ask yourself a few questions to get some insight. "Why am I allowing this person to bother me?". "What am I thinking and doing that may be attracting this type of person or energy?". "Why am I having trouble perceiving this person as a divine child?" Try blessing the person that gets on your nerves, try having compassion for them. See if that alone doesn't shift the energy. Remember, to change others we must change ourselves. When we change our thoughts, we change our perceptions. Your perceptions will continue to gather evidence to make you right! If you think someone is rude to you and you allow it to bother you, and you think about it and talk to others about it, you will continue to attract more of that "rudeness". Then your ego gets to be right and have the confirmation, "Ha! See, they are really rude! They're always rude to me.". All that will stand out is the "rudeness", that will be all you perceive because that is the energy you're holding about the person and the experience. Then it becomes easy to slip into "victim mode" and not take responsibility for your thoughts, feelings and experiences. Ultimately what we want is to be happy and when we look to others to do that for us, we will continually be disappointed. No one can do that for us, happiness is an inside job. So you may find it useful to ask yourself, "Can I be happy in spite of this person irritating me?", "Why am I basing my happiness on them?", "Why is it so hard for me to take responsibility for my happiness?". For instance, if you are allowing a co-worker to irritate you and every day you carry around resentment towards them, they are just going to continue to upset you and disappoint you more. The cycle continues...resentment builds and you continue to focus more on what's irritating you. We all know that what you focus on expands, so focusing just attracts more evidence for you and on it goes. Break the cycle!
Action:
Take a moment and honestly answer the questions I have written above. It may really help bring some awareness to you and help you grow. Then, pick one person or one situation that bothers you and hold compassion and gratitude for them or it. (Maybe it's not a persons behavior, maybe it’s the traffic or the weather.) Whatever it is, play this little experiment in your mind. Focus on compassion and gratitude, when in the past maybe you would focus only on the upset and frustration. Watch how the energy shifts. Observe how you are not so effected or irritated. One of my favorite little mantras is, "He who angers you, conquers you!". Stay in your power! It takes practice! I encourage you to practice forgiveness and to practice compassion. When you focus your energies in these positive ways and shift your perception, you will start to gather evidence to make you right. However, now you're gathering "good" evidence, thus allowing the "good" to expand! Isn't that wonderful?! We are so amazing & magical!
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