Abigail's End of Year Practice: Great Thanks, Great Peace, Great Love
How does this strike you as a mantra? Pretty good...heh?...No, I didn't create it...it comes from a native American sage by the name of Sequoyah Trueblood, in a talk he gave during an inspiring Peacemaker's course I am taking. It is a mantra to remind us in difficult situations, when tempers may be running high (for whatever reason), of what is essential in life.
I suppose it is up to each and everyone of us to decide what is important or essential in life, but I have decided this is peace... peace and love. As A Course in Miracles teaches (strangely, exactly what Sequoyah Trueblood spoke of...) the key to peace is non-judgment...removing judgment and attaining a state of allowing. We are not in the driver's seat, no matter how much we might want to be, or believe we are. But we all have to live our lives to discover (in our own time) that fact. And because we might decide, or say that we want peace , it does not mean we attain or maintain a peaceful state of non judgment or allowing. This, as you know, is a tall order. The Course reminds us, in a lesson entitled, "I want the peace of God," that saying this and really wanting it are two different things, mostly because our small-seeing, conditioned ego, wants to be right! We are sure we know better, and a part of us does not want to allow what "is" to be, and does not know how to function in "non-judgment".
Thus the need for a mantra to remind us that everything that comes our way in life is a lesson to remind us of our true nature, one of love and one of peace. As Sequoyah says: "everything in life is designed to bring us to a state of peace", yes everything(!), even the 'bad' stuff...losing our job, divorce, illness, confusion, people that "get our goat" with whom we have trying relationships..EVERYTHING. And when you hear his life story, you can feel he knows what he is talking about.
So this holiday season, my suggested practice is to give thanks...for EVERYTHING in your life. Our greatest lessons reside in the areas where we are hesitant to allow and accept...where we keep trying to change things; this doesn't mean you cannot speak up for what you want, but come from a place of thanks and peace. As we practice finding that state of great peace (no matter what...) love opens up. We begin to see when someone is angry and shouting at us, if we can maintain a state of peace (breathe...breathe and breathe again) and allowing, we realize this person is in pain. They are suffering in some way, and feel so desperate they have to resort to violence (shouting) to protect themselves from something they fear. When we can accept that the other person is hurting, we begin to practice compassion and give them what they most need in that terrible moment of fear, an example of peace. So, instead of adding fuel to the fire, we allow it without judgment, and offer a soothing balm to the hurting person. And again, we can give great thanks for the opportunity to help a fellow human in need.
So enjoy your holiday season in Great Thanks, Great Peace, and Great Love, for love opens up to you when you are in a place of peace. Eckhart Tolle reminds us that when you allow this moment to be whatever it 'is' without analysing and judging it, when you are present, in the 'now', love naturally arises, for the other person is no longer seen as 'other', and the sense of separation is seen as the ego illusion (belief) that we all share, but that is made-up. Then you can meet the 'other' as yourself, and that is Love.
Blessings and happy holidays! May you live in great thanks, great peace and great love!
Abigail
Abigail DeSoto
Transformational Coach & Psychosynthesis Guide
www.inner-discovery.com
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