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Life Is The Perfect Teacher

 

 

What is Life trying to teach you and are you listening? Although a lesson can be learned from everything that happens in our lives, it's valuable to pay particular attention to the things that are making some "noise" in our lives.

Examine any current or recent event, circumstance or situation that is particularly loud or stands out. Maybe it's something that keeps happening over and over , or something that causes you anxiety or upset . Identify any person with whom you have had a recent interaction, especially those that have been uncomfortable or challenging. Ask yourself, what is each there to teach me? What is the lesson I need to be learning? Perhaps you need are being taught to learn to :

 

  • Stop talking and listen
  • Speak up and be heard
  • Prepare more thoroughly and plan ahead
  • Take a stand for yourself and take charge of your life
  • Be patient and understanding
  • Let go judgment and control and accept - it is how it is and he/she is how they are
  • Have compassion and show caring
  • Stop avoiding and confront an issue
  • Be creative and look for new possibilities
  • Establish and maintain personal boundaries
  • Take a risk and step out of the box with both feet
  • Say "No"
  • Say "Yes"
  • Admit you aren't right
  • Stop languishing in indecision and take action

. . . or many more lessons that will help you become a more empowered person . . .

 

Life is constantly serving us opportunities to evolve spiritually (to become a centered, grounded, loving, joyful, free person) and either we learn how to become that or we don't. Some of us learn and forget and need to be reminded. Some of us need to be hit over the head several times before we wake up and heed the lesson. Some of us never learn and frequently feel stuck, trapped, anxious, frustrated, stressed, hurt, angry, disappointed, frightened, worries, sad . . .

 

What I know for sure is that a lesson is taught until it is learned, even if it takes a lifetime . . . and if you don't learn the lesson, it will be repeated again and again and get louder and louder.

 

The choice is ours. We can exercise some humility and learn what the guru of Life is teaching us, and grow and flourish with vitality and joy. Or we can cover our ears, shut our eyes and refuse to listen or learn and keep doing whatever we're doing that brings us down.

 

If you keep doing what you're doing, you will continue to have what you have. If that is good news, then keep doing it. If not, then you have something to learn.

 

 

 

Thank you to my good friend Chris Herrod for sharing this quote.

  

 

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