How you feel is crucial.
How you feel about what’s happening, is crucial to your well-being. Whether it happens in your family, in your workplace, or in the world makes no difference. Whether it happens because of what you said or did, or someone else said or did, makes no difference.
It is your viewpoint about the event, and the response you have to the event, that will make all the difference to your well-being. Do you respond, mentally, emotionally or physically, from your ego identity or your soul identity?
Your awareness of how things work in this life is constantly expanding with every life experience you have. That is why today you can have a very different response to an event similar to one you had 5 years ago, to which you responded with anger, and now all you feel about the present situation is compassion and understanding.
And what we very often do, is reproach ourselves for our previous conduct, because if only we had the understanding then that we have now, the outcome of that situation could have been very different. And that’s completely unnecessary, because we are always at exactly the place we need to be in any moment, and certain choices of behavior are presented to us so that we can grow spiritually.
What we choose will then bring the outcomes we need in order to advance on the stairway of life; and like any stairway, we have to climb the lower steps first, before we can get to the top. Every outcome then presents us with another set of choices that can be made as a response to this new situation, and the wisdom we gained allows us to make a higher choice.
In order to get to where you are now you could not have made a different choice then, so instead of feeling bad about it, be happy that it has allowed you to become the better person you now are, because of it.
Whatever choice you make will always have an outcome that will cause you to make another choice – and what you have learned from that outcome will have expanded your understanding to a greater extent: so the new options will be of a higher level than before.
All you ever have to do is to choose the highest – meaning, the most loving – option from all the ones before you, to ensure your life keeps on an upward spiral towards your final destination – One with Spirit.
