Last week on my radio show I was sharing about Keeping Guilt From Ruining Our Relationships. It’s holiday time and for some people that means, “here comes the guilt!” I encourage you to listen to it before your next family gathering.
Today on my radio show I’ll be sharing about Love Substitutes – Recognizing & Eliminating Them. Love substitutes are ALL OVER our lives, and they block the flow of actual Love because we hold onto them as attachments.
In my experience, all distractions are also attachments. Attachments are the cause of suffering. So, distractions cause suffering – there’s motivation to release them!
Let’s start by at least eliminating the simple distractions that have the least amount energetic attachment and gain some momentum to give us MORE motivation.
One of the simple distractions that keeps us from our goal of waking up are thinking that other people should do things differently.
How do I really know what anyone else should do?
How can I possibly know what their learning curriculum is?
I tell myself, “until I can see through all directions of time and space, I don’t really know what anything is for, but I’d like to know. And I’d like to know ASAP. In the meantime, I’m willing to trust that everything is for my good.”
I used to put a lot of energy, emotional upset into thinking others should do things differently. It would come up so intensely at holiday times.
There was NEVER any sense of fulfillment, greater happiness or Peace that came from ruminating about what other people should or shouldn’t do. It was 100% an investment in distracting myself from being loving and waking up. PLUS it upset me, so that made it a form of self inflicted unkindness to entertain it.
What kind of crazy is it that would I would go out of my way to judge what others are doing only to feel upset by it without any chance of actually bringing benefit? COMPLETELY crazy!
Do you have enough motivation to stop investing in thinking about what other people should or shouldn’t do yet? If not, then partner UP and invoke Spirit to show you the way. Our willingness is all that’s required.
We have the opportunity to be that fulcrum point of healing in our families – let’s truly BE it and be truly helpful this Thanksgiving!
TODAY RADIO SHOW: On my radio show today my topic is Love Substitutes – Recognizing & Eliminating Them.
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