We are walking each other home

Here is a way to fundamentally change your life by thinking differently.

Let’s start with a small exercise- Close your eyes, take a deep breath and think about all the people and situation in your life that you hold in your mind. The good, bad and ugly. We go though multitude of experiences, but we hold on to just a few.

Now think of what these people or situations make you feel. Pick one person to start with. For simplicity, let it not be a person who occupies the most of your headspace. Pick someone who is distant, but you had a tussle with.

Now place this person in your minds eye and for a few minutes leave all the emotions charges between the two of you aside. Imagine you are playing Charades with this person and he/she is acting out some information for you. Now ask yourself this question- What is the lesson this person is trying to teach me?

This may or may not be easy for starters. It takes a while to understand the subtle underlying messages anyone in your space is bringing to you. Once you do, you will realize that every single person who has entered your environment has a vital message for your spiritual progress. Be it simple words said by strangers or life changing situations, all of them have a reason.

Let’s look at it from a different perspective. Supposing you need to take 10 courses to graduate from highschool. You will have 10 teachers come to your classroom to teach you. Now let’s say you dint take your foreign langue seriously and you are falling behind on Spanish. You get pulled out by the Spanish teacher and you get warned about your slow progress. You don’t give any heed to this warning. Now there is an intervention and you are asked to take special extra classes to catch up on the lost time. You don’t show up for the classes. The principal gets involved and gives an ultimatum. You understand that you need to work hard, study and pass in your Spanish class. But you don’t do the needful. You fail miserably and now you can’t get into college. You lose a year. Your friends are already in college and you are struggling. It affects your mental and physical health and you suffer in your academics even further. Now everything is hard. You need to get through college and support yourself financially, you need to feel better and you need to graduate from highschool. You are in some serious trouble.

How does this apply to our lives?

Our soul has lessons to learn so it can graduate and walk forward. So it cones to earth school. Earth school places people and situations in its path to support the learning. These lessons require you to look at life’s situation with emotional neutrality to read its messages. But your emotions get the best of you and you focus on the pain, suffering and hardships instead of the lesson.

Now you start getting warnings, you get pulled into interventions and at one point the principal gets involved. You continue to let the emotions decide your course of action and eventually you fail and you are left behind. People around you move on and you feel stuck. You feel lost and your physical and mental health suffers.

We all are here on planet earth to learn our soul level lessons and walk on our souls chosen path to fulfill its purpose.

For this to happen smoothly we have to gain emotional neutrality and let people and situation teach us and not let us down. Every single thing placed in our path has a reason. Every single word spoken by anyone around us has a message for us to listen and comprehend. It’s ok to fail and it’s ok to try again. We will get many chances but you have to keep trying. If things have gotten very serious, we need to pay heed to the advise from the principal. The principal in earth school might look like the worst enemy, bad boss or a terrible spouse. They are your well-wishes in disguise. All they are doing is playing a role so you get to your destination. We are walking each other home.

The message are clear when our mind is clear and we are a neutral observer of out emotions. We will receive abundant help if we intend to walk forward.

To summarize- look at your own life like a movie. Observe it and don’t get entangled in it. Look at each person in your life like a mirror and notice what the mirror is reflecting. What in the reflections needs to change? What erroneous thoughts are you repeating in your head. What is the new perspective that you need to bring in.

It took me a long time to wrap my head around this concept. My deepest gratitude to my mentors for supporting me in this journey. Big big thank you to Aatman Parmar the founder Redikall Insights for being patient when I kept asking the same questions again and again. Thank you for explaining it over and over.

This is my effort to share what I learned through a process of self discovery. I  happy to talk to anyone who is curious to know more.

Love,

Sapna