For Your Very Own Good
I magine for a moment that the Universe is your parent and all-wise, all-knowing, totally powerful parent who loves you completely- a parent who can do anything and accomplish everything. Also imagine that your parent knows the past, present, and future. Most important, imagine that at all times, your parent wants to benefit you in the maximum amount possible.
Universe Is Your Parent
Your parent (the Universe) wants you to be strong, but not just by snapping its fingers and making you strong. You wouldn’t feel any sense of accomplishment if you became strong in that way, so your parent brings circumstances into your life that will cause you to use your own strength and thereby become stronger.
Suppose that your parent wants you to be wise. Your parent won’t give you wisdom but will provide you with circumstances from which you will gain wisdom. If your parent wants you to be less arrogant, she doesn’t just give you a dose of humility. She will create a situation in your life that will cause you to feel humility and recognise its value. The Universe always prospers the humble and brings down the arrogant. It’s a universal law. Sometimes those experiences hurt us, take something from us, or shame us, but they always occur for our total and complete benefit.
Imagine the Universe as a total awareness and a supreme consciousness that is completely aware of you and your circumstances. Imagine that it has taken you under its wing to love, protect and guide you, giving you lessons that will benefit you in the maximum amount possible. That’s exactly what ‘workout’ situations are.
Break Old Habits
After a lifetime of seeing problems as bothersome troubling difficulties, being able to see the same problems as beneficial workout situations that have been brought into your life for a purpose will be a welcome change. Breaking your old habit of seeing these situations as problems may at first be difficult, but you can do it.
When you have obtained the information you are meant to learn from these workout situations, you will cause them to pass out of your life. In kindergarten or first grade, you learn that one plus one equals two. You don’t get that in college because you already know it, and you don’t need that lesson any longer. It’s the same in the Universe; once you get what you need from a workout situation, it passes out of your life, never to return.
Develop the awareness that problems are situations in your life that are there for the purpose of helping you be the person who can have what you want and be who you want. They are also mirrors that reflect “Who you are” and will change as you change.
The same principles that govern physical power also govern mental power.... There’s a saying among body builders: No pain, no gain. That means if you’re failing to use your muscles to the point where they hurt, you’re failing to tear down muscle tissue and rebuild it with new, stronger muscle tissue. Likewise, the situations in your life that will provide you with your mental workout will not be easy to overcome, but by using your determination to overcome the difficulty, you’ll build strength, gain awareness, and increase your capability.…
When a problem arises, say to yourself, as if you already believed it: “This is for my benefit.” Your beliefs are based on your experiences. By pretending and acting as if you truly believe that everything happens only for your benefit, you’ll soon see new results that come from acting on that belief; and based on those new experiences, you’ll discover that it is actually true - then you’ll believe it.
Be Who You Want, Have What You Want
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