Saturday, January 21, 2023
The only way to heal is to help others. Getting help is OK, when you need it, but needing it all the time only feeds the pain. Life is not attacking you, but it is easy to believe that you are a target. The ego is so cunning. Most people aren’t a victim of their circumstance; they are a victim of their ego. The only way to minimize the effects of such insidious attention-grabbing, is to turn your attention to those who really need your help. In most cases, people need to learn how the root cause of their suffering comes from victimizing their situation.
When people make a life’s purpose out of serving – that’s healing. Look at the examples of people who dedicate their life to enlightening the world. Our greatest need is service, but not to help people “fix” their problem, but to fix how they see problems. Too many people are obsessed with “fixing” their circumstances. But it’s futile. The only problem is one’s inability to see how they have turned their situation into a reason to feel like a victim.
It’s so tempting to believe that circumstance is attacking you; to believe that life’s hard times are a means of putting you in last place, but it’s never that way. Hard times don’t attack, they enlighten, but too many of us feel shortchanged or singled out by circumstance. But the minute you turn your focus to those who may have it even worse, it all goes away. Most of what ails us is considered “first world problems.” And those so-called problems are usually petulant, but the mind loves to get a hold of such nonsense, and turn it into a reason to feel victimized. Open your eyes to what you think makes you suffer. Turn your eyes upon those who truly need your help, and suddenly your situation doesn’t seem like an attack.