I’m 48 and in a dead end job. I know I should be grateful to have a well-paying job today, but I can’t change if I keep saying I’m grateful because the universe hears you say that and I will be stuck forever in my job that is absolutely boring and dead-end. I feel too that I don’t know what to do with my life. I cry often because I meditate and never get any answers and say well God is busy with more pressing issues, okay, I don’t want to be selfish, but I don’t want to just exist in this world. I just can’t figure it out. Just writing this, tears are falling.
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It almost would seem unfair to realize that we have been thinking unconsciously and producing the very things we don’t want in our lives because we were not awake to the fact that the universal law is always functioning even when we are not aware of it…and even when we become aware of it, we still have so much world conditioning to overcome…I guess all we can do is hang in there until we really figure it all out and get a handle on it…or we can take the easy way and check out, but hanging in there seems to be the better route…
I have learned that things like compassion and gratitude are innate to the soul, yes,,,but from the point of trying to be grateful or full of compassion when we are truly hurting is almost impossible…But still possible…it’s that glimmer of hope that getting out of ruts is possible, that makes it so… Sometimes I dive deep into my wounds and find by doing so, I have surfaced again because the depth had reached it’s bottom and there was no where else to go but up…
Dark nights of the soul have their purpose …after enough of them(dark nights) you finally figure out that they will pass…and things will feel new again, when this has happened enough times, I imagine you just don’t fall into the mind games anymore…and you begin to take charge of your thoughts and the sensations that go along with them….
Peace and much love,
Gyanama
Careful with those bottoms. Bottoms are not trampolines. One can sink through them as well.
“One can sink through them as well”? Which One?
I often here the pain of people hating their jobs, even in this economy where 10% of our fellow Americans can not find work no matter what they do.
It seems to me that as a baby we get conditioned that if we cry enough, complain enough, God will change our diapers (our parents are our only Gods at that age). With years of this conditioning, it’s automatic to think complaining & crying is the only way to get God’s attention and get a “change”. Thus God only hears the complaints of people, not the thanks.
Mark 4:25 reminds us “Whoever has will be given more”. When we are grateful for what we have, we get more. Do you want to give more to people who complain or to those who appreciate? Our adult spirit knows the truth.
We must overcome our conditioning, our baby mind, and appreciate what we have while we make room for more to arrive. Just look at the world, complainers have not and those who are thankful have more.
Yes, but for those who have not understood yet, may we never loose our compassion or empathy towards those who just don’t understand yet….
May we always be able to discern the needs of others with a heart full of love and wisdom and through this lead the babes to adult hood in God…
Love,
Gyanama
I’m 49, just went thru a very similar experience. Tried antidepressants, big mistake, attempted suicide 2 times on them! I’m finally exiting dark tunnel, seeing light, with no medications. I let myself fall completely into the despair and fully experience it all, saying “Thank You Universe” for what things I did have in my life I was appreciative of and grateful for, in my life.
IMO it’s wise to shift your attention to things the things that you have in your life, that your appreciative of, not on the things you don’t like in your life. Find something small (I did my kitty) tell God/Universe how apprecitive you are for the things you do have, no matter how “small”. That will send gratefulless from your energy out to the Universe/God (?)….
Let the tears fall, the sooner you let yourself feel “all” the pain, the sooner it pass. Maybe this unhappiness with your current job is trying to tell you something….need a change in life? Follow your bliss….
Don’t let the outer world determine what you “should” be doing with your life. Follow ‘your’ heart….Follow ‘your’ Dreams….Follow ‘your’ Feelings….Don’t follow what the world and other’s are telling you to ‘be’ or “should” be doing with your life…
Cindy Wainwright
Beautifully said and with much compassion and love…
In Appreciation,
Gyanama
My initial reaction to ‘gratitude and growth’s’ post was one of anger and irritation. I said to myself… “at least you have a job, a good-paying one!” I do not. But then I calmed myself and realized pain is pain, no matter how much you earn. I have found that, for myself, the less money I have, the less pressure I feel in trying to compete with others. I no longer feel like I need the next new best gadget or car or home. I am, however, rich in spirit. Being unemployed has it’s advantages. I have 24 hours a day to work on making myself truly happy. So, today, after reading ‘gratitude and growth’s’ post, I feel grateful and appreciative of the life I currently have.
“Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned…” -Erykah Badu
Blessings,
Kathryn
In reference to above question ” Is it more compassionate to treat people like adults and not babies”?…
it’s a matter of semantics
now…Sometimes we write in a metaphysical language using words to represent a state of consciousness…There are times when being the comforter is more important then slapping an unprepared consciousness with the direct truth, even when you think it is being done gently….
Here is a good metaphysical example of what I am talking about..
There is a scripture in the Bible that states, “I have fed you with milk and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able” – 1 Cor-3:2
For instance, if someone was to loose a spouse after 40 years of marriage, I dare not tell that person to be grateful for all they have and that it is all just an illusion…We need to be awake ourselves as to what the Truth is, and if we ourselves our awake in Truth then the right words will be given, or maybe no words at all…Just a Silent Knowing…. I don’t always feel lead to give direct Truth, sometimes I just know that being the compassionate comforter towards someone’s grieving is what is needed most at the moment….After all we are having a human experience aren’t we? Why is the soul equipped with compassion?, not for the Spirit, but for this human experience….
Love,
Gyanama
what a mess… and my comment was erased here as well…
… anyway i said something like “gratitude is the key and the best affirmation formula”… love…
Whenever we think we have found a mess, there in lies the potential to clean it up..Love, Gyanama
All I could do is laugh on this one…..It’s all Good…It really is, even when it doesn’t always appear that way..”It is”…Good!!!
A Joyful laugh with All..
Gyanama
Oh Hackman I do love you…(still don’t see your point,) but I do love you…And there is no opposition really.. …”The Son continues to shine brightly even as the clouds pass by”…
Peace,
Gyanama
“It a new Day”
is kirthan gotham engaged?
Is conflict what you see? I don’t see that…
No my understanding will never be understood by human logic…your very right about that…and I will not only pray for you too, I will keep knowing the Truth until you awake in it…
When you begin to heal like Jesus has, please give testimony …The Christ message proved his wisdom by all those he healed…He beheld the perfect man in God and revealed it so…but as it is made clear if a man is not receptive or willing to know Truth, it will not be revealed through that man…and human logic will continue to be his truth…
Intuition is direct Truth and transcends human logic
Love,
Gyanama
Kirthan / Michael’s lover, am I to choose between you 2? or have u made your choice? Jeusus where are u?I’m prunning with every day that passes!
I think your problem is indescribable.
I encourage you to cease lying to yourself.
Is it not more compassionate to treat people lovingly like adults and hold their hand into the truth, rather than think of adults as babies? Do we think people so fragile they will collapse from truth? Do we let people sleep and follow illusions of the mind or gently wake them up?
I agree with that too…
it’s a matter of semantics
now…Sometimes we write in a metaphysical language using words to represent a state of consciousness…There are times when being the comforter is more important then slapping an unprepared consciousness with the direct truth.
Here is a good metaphysical example of what I am talking about..
There is a scripture in the Bible that states, “I have fed you with milk and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able” – 1 Cor-3:2
For instance, if someone was to loose a spouse after 40 years of marriage, I dare not tell that person to be grateful for all they have and that it is all just an illusion…We need to be awake ourselves as to what the Truth is, and if we ourselves our awake in Truth then the right words will be given, or maybe no words at all…Just a Silent Knowing…. I don’t always feel lead to give direct Truth, sometimes I just know that being the compassionate comforter towards someone’s grieving is what is needed most at the moment….After all we are having a human experience aren’t we? Why is the soul equipped with compassion?, not for the Spirit, but for this human experience….
Love,
Gyanama
My “Mind” is not challenged by
opposition, as there is no opposition in the One Mind that created us all…
But your mind appears to be challenged by Divine Harmony and Unity…..
And you have yet to bring a view that has a point. Not only does your view not have a point it does not have any Real Center…
I have stopped conversing with you, because of not what you share and try to understand, but because I choose not to entertain unkindness. it seems you have become lonely and continue to reach our for conversation with me…..
Be Nice,,,and we can share harmoniously…or I will go back to being Silent with you…That after all is my choice…
Your very welcome….
Joyfully and Sincerely yours,
Gyanama
When the spirit of Truth shines it’s light, mortal thought starts hissing….
Is conflict what you see Reverend?….I don’t see that….