Life Exists To Challenge You
Life Does Not Exist to Make You Happy, it Exists to Challenge You:
If you think that life exists to make you happy, you are in for a big shock. Everyone on this planet will at some point experience challenges. When you inevitably experience something horrible, you have a choice. You can become sad, bitter, angry, and live in a state of unhappiness. Alternatively, you can observe the challenge as it unfolds, from a deeper state of awareness and without judgment.
Challenges in life can be opportunities that awaken a higher level of consciousness. Although it is impossible to compare suffering, the more challenging the situation, the more strength it can take to access the deeper state of consciousness within you. Like many things in life, the harder you work for something, the stronger you become during the process.
Master Smaller Challenges First:
You start to practice awakening your higher consciousness while navigating the smaller challenges you face. It will then be easier to apply when experiencing greater challenges.
For example, the next time something small doesn’t go your way, observe it. If a line at the supermarket is taking forever and you find yourself annoyed, start by becoming aware of those “unhappy” thoughts. Thoughts like “I’m going to be late, this is taking forever, why did I come here during such a busy time.” Quiet those thoughts by recognizing them for what they are – just thoughts.
Your thoughts are not a true reflection of you. They are simply an interpretation of the situation you’re in and they are automatically created by your mind. Once you recognize this, you can put your thoughts aside and experience what it is like to stand in line, observe sights and sounds happening around you, feel the air on your skin as you breathe into your lungs, and be present there in that moment where life exists.
Don’t Contribute to the Divisiveness of Our World:
Recognize that people who feed into this division have not yet accessed the deeper state of consciousness existing inside of them and inside of each of us. When this higher state of consciousness starts to awaken, the ego slowly starts to dissolve. However, the ego wants to survive, and can only do so when divisiveness, or otherness, exists. Once you reach a state of higher consciousness or “being,” and understand that we are all one, your ego and the narrative of yourself that you have projected out into the world, dies.
When communicating with someone with different beliefs than your own, try to set the example by responding not from your own ego, but from a state of higher awareness, and recognize that the other person has the capacity to do so as well.
