'When you're weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes...' These opening lyrics from Bridge Over Troubled Water are something that we can all relate to. Every one of us at some time or other feels the pressure of life and circumstances bearing down on us. Sometimes it's good to just shrivel up, let go and cry it all out. Unless the situation absolutely demands it, putting on a mask and pretending you are feeling something other than you really are is what I term 'inauthentic living'.
A lack of authenticity is a denial of who you are - and you are a unique individual, with a unique contribution to make to this world. If you didn't have a purpose that only you could fulfill, believe me, you wouldn't be here. Think about it for a moment; in this vast Universe of perfect order and proportion do you really believe that Divine Intelligence would have allowed you to just pitch up for no reason? A random, meaningless life in the midst of perfection? No.
Although it is sometimes difficult to see, particularly when we are down, life moves in perfect rhythm and harmony. Like the tides, our emotions have their ebbs and their flow, but free-will grants us the option to actively resist this natural force. If you cling to negativity in the down phase, you are deliberately obstructing the ability of the natural flow of life to bring you quickly back up again. Likewise when you are up and feeling on top of the world the emotion is so powerful that one can become addicted to the 'high'. As life's natural rhythm is towards polarities, forcibly trying to stay up there has its own attendant drawbacks - eventually you will have to find artificial ways to maintain your position and to resist the counter flow.
Either extreme, be it deep misery or sheer exhilaration is the same - just different in degree. (See my video on the Seven Keys) The lesson is for us is to recognise this, accept both as transient phases and learn the art of non-attachment to either. Next time life deals you a cruel blow and you go down, feel the pain, cry the tears, vent the anger and disbelief that this is happening to you, then let go. Give in to the process of life. It is in that place of surrender to a force greater than yourself that you will find the 'lift' you are looking for.
Life ultimately has a plan for you. It's never a plan that you will have to fit into like a square peg into a round hole. It is always one that feels like a 'perfect fit'. So, the first two things you need to change your life are these; a pen and some paper. Write down the following affirmation and pin your sheet of paper up wherever you will see it daily.
There is a Divine Plan for my life. I am fully equipped for the Divine Plan to manifest. Everything that the Divine Intelligence has not planned for me now dissolves and is replaced by Love and Wisdom. I am now led to all that is for my highest good as the Divine Plan for my life manifests quickly and in peace.
The life that the Divine Intelligence has planned out for you will start to reveal itself, if only you'll let it unfold at its own pace and rhythm. Therefore the final tool you need to change your life is a word. And that word is Trust.
By Kathryn Cassidy.
