Spiritual Empowerment I
It is a paradox. The pointlessness of upset is that it serves no loving purpose to act or feel upset at circumstances or self.
For the “nitpickers” out there, I do not mean feeling the feeling of grief, for example, as a response to the death of a loved one. I am not talking about experiences such as brief sadness felt when you read about people starving in the world. It is when these experiences are felt deeply over time about the same experience that we sap our own energy.
I put the word nitpickers in quotations in the last paragraph because my sense of it is that as soon as I label someone as a nitpicker, then I have suggested that somehow I am better than that person. I do not make that suggestion. We’ll talk more about the pointlessness of judgement in Spiritual Empowerment II.
To seethe in anger or to vent that anger at another being does not serve one. It is a willful draining of one’s spiritual power by ignoring that loving, trusting power that exists within you.
What is more important to you: to win an argument via an angry or demeaning response…or to exercise an opportunity for compassion and acceptance?
To hold resentment of any kind for another does nothing but abuse the resenter. To envy another is to block oneself from receiving whatever it is that the other person has that you resent them for.
There is another side of upset, its purpose.
The purpose of another’s upset directed at you is the manifestation of an opportunity for the you and any witnessers to respond with love. This is the only purpose of upset.
Responding w anger or another strong negative emotion saps one.
When we respond with love, we grow and we simultaneously enhance the energy of others in the world. As we do this more and more consistently, we will evolve more and more rapidly. We will see with more and more clarity, the world we intend to create.
