The Rain

HAVE YOU EVER FELT THE RAIN

TO SOME IT BRINGS JOY AND PLEASURE



TO OTHERS IT BRINGS ONLY PAIN

OVER THE HILL I WATCHED IT COME



I HAD A MY CHOICE

I COULD HAVE TURNED AND RUN



I FELT IT FALL ALL OVER ME

FOR THAT WHILE IT WAS EVERY THING



I HOPE'D IT WOULD BE

UNTIL ALL AT ONCE IT STOPPED



IT LEFT ME DUMB FOUNDED

AND ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED



I HAD NEVER FELT SO MUCH JOY

NOR HAVE I FELT SO MUCH PAIN



NOW AT THE END OF EVERY DAY

IM WISHING WANTING AND WAITING FOR THE RAIN.

Dr. Cutie Pie J

SO WHAT IF YOU’RE HEARTBROKEN?

Suffering brings renunciation, an important quality for spiritual growth

 

Look at the trials of your life with a spiritual approach: until your heart has been broken to the things of this materialistic world, you can't open your heart into the higher world.

Now, you shouldn't feel compelled to go out and try to get your heart broken or seek after trials and disasters so you can grow from them. Don't worry; the world is very good at creating just the right challenges for you!

Yet, isn't it amazing how even the most intensely difficult things in your life somehow fall just the threshold of bearable! You may sometimes think your troubles are unbearable, but most likely; you come to a time when things get better. Everyone goes through these ups and downs of life, although the outward details and intensities change from person to person.

For one person, small inconveniences cause more distress than major disasters do for another. Some people get more upset about a bad hair – tinting job than people who are dealing with devastating tragedies. Pain and suffering are relative. How life's challenges affects you depends on your understanding, state of mind, and previous experience; it also depends on the arms of divine beneficence that come to carry you above the hottest sands.

Seeing troubles with a positive eye, you must likely enjoy a pleasant life as much as anyone else. Moreover even knowing the value of life's challenges, you still don't go around looking for trouble. You might say that you choose your challenges, or that God chooses them carefully for you so that your mind and limited self – concepts are shaken just enough – but not too much – and with rests in between.

Suffering teaches you compassion. It inspires you to contemplate and reconsider your thoughts and actions. It brings renunciation, and renunciation is an important quality for spiritual growth.

Times of suffering and difficulty can actually lead you into a greater experience of the world. Dark nights of the soul can bring greater meaning and depth of spirit to your life and give you more appreciation and gratitude for all you have. Many people have awakened to religion, spirituality and the presence of the Supreme Being or the first time after going through traumatic events. For this reason, suffering can be one of the most potent forces for spiritual transformation and awakening.

This doesn't mean that you should court difficulties or become a martyr – looking for more suffering so you can grow from it. Nor is it a call for you to just suffer and suffer without making efforts to heal the problems in your life. In fact, with spiritual awareness, you can change uncomfortable outer circumstances – not only on a materialistic level but also by combining the power of your mind with spiritual practices, good actions and higher intentions.

The key to transforming trials into transcendence is to realize that everything that comes to you is your destiny, an opportunity to tap into a greater awareness.

Life always brings challenges to deal with. Struggle and strife have come as standard accessories with package deal of this cruise. When those difficult moments come, you have a choice, instead of being swept away into an emotional flurry or numb depression; you can see such times with some objectivity.

Then, even if part of you goes into some agitation or sadness here or there, you can still be aware of part of you that's witnessing all the play of your life – the still point of the turning world that exists inside of you. From that place, you can remind yourself that after every storm, there is a chance to awaken into a new golden sky and find new colorful rainbows to delight your heart, nourish your soul, and rouse your spirit.

 

 

                                    Dr. Cutie pie J

 

 

Be What You Want To Be

We can actually choose our thoughts. The power of the choice is the greatest gift of life.

 

I believe that one of the most powerful moments in my life was the moment I realized that I had a choice! Not only do I have the power to choose my actions, but I also have the power to choose my thoughts and my moods. Nobody can make me angry. I'm the one who choose to have the experience of anger. When an upsetting event occurs, I select my response. Will it be anger and irritation, or will it be acceptance or forgiveness?

 

Have you felt at times that others have hurt your feelings? Actually, they have not done anything to you. They are simply acting in the way they choose to act. You are the one who chooses to react with hurt, anger or whatever other e-motion (energy in motion) you choose.

 

When I find myself feeling down, I know this is also my choice. I know I can make the conscious decision to change my feelings and then I will experience joy and well – being. I can simply accept what is in my environment (things are what they are) and change my attitude. If I prefer blue skies to grey, I can choose to feel grumpy about the weather; or I can choose to enjoy the day whatever the weather is. If a close friend or relative lives the body, I can choose to feel sorrow for myself, or to feel happiness for them as they go on to another realm of experience.

 

We can choose our thoughts - in the same way as we choose what we eat. We are conscious of choosing the food we eat, yet sometimes it seems like they choose us. The detectable aroma draws us and we feel we can't resist it. Yet, we do choose to indulge or to pass. If you are overweight/ underweight, it is good to acknowledge that you are so through your own decisions of what and when to eat. If you are without employment, that also is your creation (conscious or not). If you are a smoker/drinker that too is your choice.

 

Ah…..I hear cries of 'but wait a minute, smoking is an addiction", yes, this is true, but many have chosen to 'beat' addictions….. and some of us do not. We might say we can't, yet the truth is that we choose not to.

 

I have a weakness for ice cream. I have been heard to say that I won't buy ice cream, because if I do, then I can't resist eating it. Now, of course that's a lie. Of course can resist…..I just choose not to. For some reason the appeal of the ice cream is stronger than my desire to not eat it…so I eat it.

 

And I believe that is the case with many of our weaknesses, addictions, choices…..We do have the strength to choose otherwise, but, for whatever reason, the pay - off of doing the thing is greater than the pay – off for not doing it.

 

If ice cream gives me personal satisfaction (I have fond memories of my grandmother always having my favorite flavor whenever we visited), then the pay – off or satisfaction I get from eating ice cream is greater than the desire to not eat dairy products. If we look honestly at our 'addictions', we see that the pay – off is greater than the reason to not indulge.

 

Does this make us wrong? Does this mean we make a wrong choice? No, it simply means that we make a choice…….for whatever reason. Perhaps, we would be well served to examine our motivations for doing something, and then get clear as to why we really choose to smoke, or overeat, or not be good to ourselves.

 

Once we get clear on "what we get out of it" then we may find more healthy and supportive ways to get that result without the addictive behavior. If, where I eat ice cream, I am subliminally telling myself I love myself (since I associate ice cream with my grandmother's love), then perhaps I could find other ways to be loving to myself…..Since eating dairy products is not on my preferred diet choice, there are other things I could choose to do to attain the same result (feeling loved).

 

We are the creators of our own experience. We can alter our own experiences by making different choices. Sometimes, we might choose to be overwhelmed, because we get something out of it….Do we get to feel sorry for ourselves? Or perhaps we get to complain to our friends and co-workers and have them give us love and support. Perhaps, getting ourselves in a situation of overwhelm (or illness) gives us the opportunity to take a day (or week) off from the hustle and bustle of our daily life.

 

Whenever you are experiencing something that you feel is not a 'positive' situation for you, ask yourself how and why you are choosing this. Now, please, this is not a suggestion to be clear on what you "really" want, and find how to get it.

 

Sounds easy? Not always. We all have experienced those times when our emotions get the better of us. It is definitely an ongoing process to watch our feelings, our thoughts and make the choice of what we want to feel. All I can suggest is for you to remember that you always have a choice. You are never a victim unless you choose to be!

 

A friend with whom I shared this information felt so happy, that he called up to say: it worked! He had been feeling depressed when he remembered that it was his choice in other words, he somehow wanted to feel depressed.

 

So, he made the choice to feel thankful for being alive, and instantly, his mood changed. He had chosen happiness and thankfulness for life. So can you………………