Over the next few articles I will be discussing what I have found to be an invaluable process for authentic and powerful living. Try it out and watch what happens in your own life! The following is the second article in this series.

Step Two

Requires us through awareness in the present moment to transform those frightened parts of our personalities into loving parts!

In previous blog articles I have discussed the impact of our fear-based personality structures on our behaviours and the destructive consequences our reactive behaviours can have on our lives. In most areas of our lives where we experience difficulty, pain and suffering are where we have reacted in a habitual manner to our fears. By perpetuating the same response we continue to create for ourselves the same circumstances that triggered us in the first place. We have generated negative Karma for ourselves.

The way through this is to choose to do something different and only then can we expect to experience different results.

This step is an exercise in developing patience. Practically what this involves is “counting to ten” before reacting to any stimulus that triggers within you a fear based response. Just observe what your are feeling and where physically this is manifesting in the moment and wait. What you will notice is that eventually eventually these negative fear based feelings will naturally subside. This is because in life everything is in a constant cycle of change and what was once negative moves towards its positive polar opposite. If we feel angry then if we wait and are patient eventually we will start to feel compassion.

In this life where we experience dual aspects of all things the pendulum continually swings between opposites. Our window of opportunity is open to us when we choose to wait and observe and then respond when the pendulum reaches the maximum extent of its arch on the side of love. 

When we have moved full circle to a more loving aspect of ourselves we are better able to choose to respond in a constructive manner which will be more life enhancing. Only then can we expect to experience truly transformative results in our lives. Only then do we create positive Karma in our lives.