Being Interrupted in Life.
This may not be clear to you today, but one fine day with your persistent interest, you will realize the value of being interrupted. You will cherish interruptions in a brand new way. You will see them as “Psychological Gold.” Let’s look at your reaction today when you are interrupted as you are going about your daily tasks or maybe you are on your computer, and someone or something interrupts your momentum or thinking. What happens inside you (This is so important to your happiness)? Irritation, resentment, anger, despair, or maybe a feeling that life is so unfair? Maybe it is just one of these or a combination of these negative reactions occur.
Try this!
Try this! Slow down, pause, and take a good long look at this reaction. Take a few deep breaths. No judgment or comment, only a good look. Becoming conscious of these reactions or letting them go unnoticed is a key factor in your level of happiness. Please follow along, if this reaction goes unnoticed, you suffer from this unhealthy reaction whether you notice this or not. You suffer unconsciously. But if you are conscious and aware of your negative reaction, you have the power to simply see it and let it go.
What a Revelation embracing interruptions.
This new power, which you had all along, can now be used to your maximum benefit. With persistent interest, this power becomes stronger and stronger within and easy to notice, identify, and let wrong reactions go. Harmful reactions do not have a chance to poison your happiness level. Hooray! This can become a life changing tool which makes your whole being content and at ease. So welcome all (big or small) interruptions. They can turn you into a happy individual.
What a friendly and healthy message, Steve!
This is great material to work with.
We do not need to spend a lot of money on spiritual retreats or consult books for answers to our problems.
We have everything we need here and now.
Bearing our pain consciously is one of Life’s most significant secrets to transformation.
The choice is always there.
What a revealing window to our real nature, interruptions. If I’m not alert to what’s happening when whatever it is that happens that I’m not expecting or wanting, it reveals the “stranger” inside, who is much different than my usual self-descriptions. The mild mannered innocent person self image instantly changes into a hideous monster, the actual fact, that lashes out at people, things and ideas that don’t go my way. Yesterday I was picking up a food donation for a large event that had been planned for weeks. The time I had to get the donation was limited and only barely allowed time to get to work on time. When I was told there was no donation, while speechless and stunned in disbelief for a second or two, using this experience to work allowed me to understand that I didn’t have to let the monster take over my life at that moment and I could continue my day without feeling bad over it. I am so grateful to know that I don’t have to be tormented by anything and that it’s a matter of working on myself to be free of anything and everything experienced.
That was a more apparent experience to work with. I want to watch and see how someone’s facial expression, driving, etc. can trigger monster reactions, so that a higher perspective, awareness, can reveal these are not necessary either. I’m not talking about suppressing actual feelings or positive thinking, “oh, that’s okay” as I stew inside, but rather the absence of the bad feelings in the first place because there is an awareness that sees no problem, instead of a self that thinks it has problems.
These experiences are so valuable because they provide an opportunity to recognize that objections arising are an imposter voice speaking to an imposter self. Our True Nature is silently aware and effortlessly untouched. We learn to take our attention off of this voice just as we would take our attention off of a raving lunatic–we would not engage or give further time & attention to it.