Lifes Problems

'Following your inner voice transforms you towards spiritual growth and spiritual intelligence. The more spiritually intelligent you are, the more likely you will follow your inner voice. While you need courage to follow your inner voice, your inner voice also gives you courage and inner strength.'

On the physical level people behave according to their desires, moods and emotions. The overriding motivation is the enjoyment of these pleasures. Senses govern everything and all that is difficult, strenuous, or boring is dubbed as 'bad'.

Despite living in the moment which is what all spiritual philosophies teach, these ones live in the moment for their own pleasure instead of the Universal Good. At some point they may come to realise that there is something else out there or when faced with the questions of the meaning of life, they begin to question.

This questioning brings a new level and many will find themselves in 'struggle'. this is a level opening up to them to go through. A stage whereby they can make choices of where they want to be in life.

These struggles represent issues they have typically had their entire lifetime. It's as if the questions themselves opened the door and said "Ok, you wanted to know, but to get the answer you need to shed some of this baggage you've been carrying around with you."

Then the choices are made about how to deal with the issues; do you fight it; deny it all and try to go back to your comfortable way of life? No way - once you open the door, you're hooked. The choices may be hard in the beginning and it all may seem like too much of a struggle but the rewards are vast. The freedom and Love that is experienced far outweighs the pain of any struggle.

If the issues are fought and denied it can be a very hard road with the physical body taking on and storing many emotions, ultimately resulting in disease.

So what do you do? Surrender is the simplest thing. Surrender is a scary thing to do. It feels as though we have to give up ourselves to something we can't see or touch and that's exactly what it is. We are in fact giving up our conditioned personality. The part of us that we have spent our life-time training to be what and who we think we should be.

Life's problems become insignificant when you can surrender to the 'true you' the you that was there before you were taught to respond with anger when you feel challenged; say unkind things when you feel cheated; feel worthless when someone turns you down; ..... the list goes on forever but that 'true you' is still there, just hidden behind the mask we put on to survive this life experience.

In a sense we are tricked by our ego selves that we need all these self-defence systems to exist. We put on fronts so others wont see the 'real us', we're terrified of being rejected so we try to please and be someone we're not just to impress - unfortunately a wedding, a few kids and a whole lot of pain and heartache later we wonder what happened when the 'other person' has revealed themselves to you.

So many things have influenced the way we react to certain situations. Our parents teach us many things without even trying. As children we carefully study the way our parent interact so we can copy them, resulting in us repeating patterns that can be quite restricting to your spiritual growth. Sometimes by just being aware and recognising when you repeat one of these reactions can be helpful in changing patterns. Once you become aware you can make a conscious choice of what to do about it.

Taking things personally is another reaction that inhibits your spiritual freedom. By realising that whenever anybody acts, they are doing so for there own reasons. When they say something, it is reflecting what is going on within themselves. You can choose to react to a comment someone makes to you like "You're useless" If you have any insecurities about feeling worthless it will hit you like a tonne of bricks, on the other hand if you realise that this person is probably dealing with some feelings of uselessness and it's not about you at all it lightens your load and you can then be of help to the other person instead of feeding the whole situation with your own fears and insecurities.

We create our own problems but we don't need to. It does take a bit of work in observing what's going on within us but the control you take back of your life is worth it.

It is a very short life in the grand scheme of it all and I personally want to make the most of it by getting rid of anything i've created and carried through my lifetime so I can be filled with the most important thing there is - Love.

Extracts on this page are from 'Inspiration Shakes the World' by Philip and Richard logan