Day 223 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - It Is All Experience...

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Lesson 223: It Is All Experience...

If the human existence is all about experience for the soul, we have learned through this course that our opening is through the heart. So far, we have been taken through the passage of pain and compassion, with two more passages to still learn and explore. I am looking forward to this. Today we are to look at the chaos that surrounds our lives and to look at our response actions. Do you find that fear is your first go to response? Can you think of another way and is that through our heart?

I think a lot of the chaos in my life is how much I exasperate it in my brain. I think easily solvable issues are met with worry, frustration, anger, fear and anxiety. I actually have to keep reminding myself that everything will be okay and it will work out. I think when I calm my mind, the “chaos” does not seem so bad.

I guess the reason the response is the same is because it’s that fight or flight mode that’s part of our natural response to things that seem like a threat to our mind and bodies. I think it’s easy to fall into fear because it’s that natural reaction. What needs to be practised when things do seem chaotic is to take a step back and try thinking it through. Sometimes just pausing to take some deep breaths, allows for more clarity to sink in. From there it can allow logical and precise steps to be taken.

I’m thinking of how our heart’s opening can assist with chaos. Can the passage of pain and compassion apply to our chaotic life? I know we can definitely identify those fear responses in pain and it allows us to overcome them and be stronger. I also feel that compassion may allow us to try and keep a level head and be more accommodating of the circumstance. So maybe that’s the lesson here – how can we use our passage of pain and compassion to think of a better way to overcome chaos. I think it comes from experience to better manage things that get thrown your way. The more you experience, the better equipped you are. I also believe asking for help never goes astray – sometimes you gain help from the unlikeliest of people that you never would have thought to ask. It’s about being open to possibility and that is opening the heart.