Difficult relationships. I’ve had precious few in my life. I’m involved in Oprah and Deepak’s 21 day meditation challenge on miraculous relationships. Today’s program dealt with difficult relationships. I don’t know about you, but for me, difficult relationships were something to be hated and feared. I didn’t particularly care for the people in some of them, and my goal was to extinguish the relationship. There were a few more where I cared very deeply for the people. These were not as easy to expunge from my life.
Today’s mediation program taught me that these kinds of difficult relationships are necessary to learn, grow, and move ourselves forward. They cause us to:
– learn to establish boundaries
– look within for self-examination
– spur us on to embark upon a spiritual journey
Without these relationships to rip us apart and cause us to do the work of rebuilding ourselves, we would stagnate and spiral downward. Today’s program centered on finding appreciation for all relationships. Not just the easy ones. One phrase that stuck with me was learning to appreciate what is, not what we hoped it would be. That’s a centering thought. So many times we focus on what we hope the relationship would be that we completely miss what’s going on in it right in front of us. It may not be pleasant to face, but it is the part that moves us forward.
And so, as another day goes by, I am further enlightened, and…I have written.
Very inspiring…. thanks once again.