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