The only consolation of uncertainty is to embrace…….fully
embrace, the wisdom of a non-exit mentality. It’s not the consolation of being
stuck with it. It is about accepting, seeing, recognizing. Wisdom comes from
knowing something from experience.
The awareness and light hearted practice of having patience
can generate healing for the irritations which come to you daily. The human
condition will experience an uncomfortable situation at times. Death, old age,
sickness, pain, suffering and other human conditions create powerful wisdom to
support our ability to embrace challenges as a doorway to strength rather than
weakness.
Should we expect to ever be free from difficulty? As much as
we all hope for blissful life experiences our wishful thinking can many times
endorse or support weakness and the lack of preparedness to handle inevitable
circumstances where reality is all too familiar.
Being in the moment is something which can be embraced. A
good example is that every wound needs time to heal, as with a scrape on a
child’s knee. Once it begins the healing process, the child will feel nature’s
normal healing process start to work. The child will be drawn to the scrape as
a tingling sensation indicates the healing process has begun. But instead of
allowing nature to complete the process, the child voluntarily interrupts the
healing process by picking at the scab allowing the wound’s life to be
extended. The more the child allows the irritation of the wound to invite
him/her to pic at the scab, the wound will take longer to heal. This may even
cause scarring to take place and become a reminder of the wound many years
later in life.
To embrace the healing of the wound is to correct a non-exit
response rather than to embrace the irritation. To embrace the healing means to
accept the present moment and not to allow yourself to live in the retrospect
when the wound took place. Every day has the ingredients to become a day of
devastation or embrace. What we give attention to determines that which we
accept as the manifestation of our day. We are all challenged by the situations
of our day. How we channel those challenges will either manifest as a day of
devastation or compassion, anger or happiness, peacefulness or contentment,
loneliness or solitude, weakness or strength.
Sometimes we have to de-construct a family house of wrong
practices to be able to begin again with foundations of correct thinking and
mindful practices which will have a healthy impact in our lives. Wisdom
sometimes can only be achieved when we embrace the power to de-construct. If a
carpenter were building a home, he would find many moments of imperfect
decisions and consequences.
My father was a builder. I can remember as a teenager,
working for my father as he was build a home for someone. We were constructing
a wall around a hallway in the house. My memory of this event has given me
wisdom so many times in life.
There were three of us building the wall. We noticed that
something was terribly wrong. We had built the wall in the wrong place. I can
remember watching as they stood around the wall discussing and questioning how
something like this had happened. I was also observing how that for what seemed
to be at least 15 minutes that no progress of any kind was being made. Everyone’s
energy was being spent on questioning why the mistake had been made instead of
correcting the problem. I could see the irritation in everyone’s faces and
could hear it in their voices.
Soon my father, the master builder interjected after
observing the actions of this bewildered group of men standing around, and
obviously getting not progress done. I can recall him saying something like, “Quit
worrying about why the wall was built in the wrong place. Tear it down quickly.
Don’t waste any more time, and build it back in the right place. Talking about
why it was built in the wrong place doesn’t get the job done.”
When we embrace the moment, we will react like my father. He
embraced the circumstances and not the history behind them. He captured the
power to achieve through the realization that the present moment was to live in
the solution and not the past. He didn’t give energy to the wound….but to the
healing of the wound. We can embrace the healing of the situation or
circumstance before us……and trust me….you will experience many of them so get
ready for plenty of practice. This is a true non-exit mentality that gives
wisdom the energy rather than the circumstances.
Embracing the reality of the predicament simply makes us
real. However to embrace the reality of the predicament doesn’t mean to ponder
on the devastation. The more a person picks at the scab, the longer the
devastation and the greater the scar will be. Allowing yourself to embrace the
irritation of the present moment is essential in the healing process. This will
position you to acquire wisdom, less permanent scarring, and progress will not
be distracted indefinitely.
The consolation of uncertainty is therefore potentially an
everyday positive impact of your long-term and short-term development of wisdom
and lack of devastation.
You Never Know
June 2009
By: Jef Welch
Have you ever wondered how much time you had left? Last week and this
weekend, with Michael Jackson, Farrah Faucet, and others dying, it's
caused me to think, how precious life is and how much shorter it can be
if just a few circumstances were to change in a person's life.
Isn't it amazing how sudden Michael Jackson died? Isn't it
interesting how quickly it all took place. I was watching a program on
TV where he was scheduled to go on tour with each performance paying
him in excess of $10 Million each appearance. That is an enormous
amount of money. And he needed it. The pressure was on. He was in
bankruptcy proceedings with the Netherland Ranch. He had approximately
$500 Million in debt, of which was in default. The pressure was huge.
While Michael Jackson was feeling the tension based on his life's
many pressures, his drug addictions, his financial pressures, his
children issues, etc., he was under so much pressure, the stress on his
body was more than it could take. But he's not alone.
With so many people in financial stress due to the economy, the
pressure is on. People are hurting. And it's not just in your own back
yard. Scott Cook wrote, "A
whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of
prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement." And the sad thing is........Scott Cook is right.
I saw a study recently that said that 98.5% of citizens of the United
States (the wealthiest country in the world), will retire with less
than $10 Thousand in the bank. 1 out of every 53 homes in the U.S. is
in danger of foreclosure. What is the answer to this crisis?
For years, people who are talented, professional, and have taken a
hit in the business world or the stock market, have turned to network
marketing in a quest for financial freedom and independence.
Just like Michael Jackson, we don't know when our number will be
called. What about the lady who recently missed her flight and luckily
was not on that flight due to it crashing and killing all the
passengers on board? However this was short lived as she was killed in
a car wreck only one week later. What did she think about that week?
Did she hug a few extra people and tell them how much she loved them?
Did she value life more knowing she was spared by the simple act of
missing her flight? How much more important was her life to her for a
short week on the earth?
What would you do if you knew your had a limited amount of time on
the earth? Would you visit someone you haven't seen in years? Would you
elect to go on a trip to a place in the world you've promised yourself
you would go before you die?
What is your plans? Do you have any? Hopefully you have a dream or
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