Resistance transformed to surrender..

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Permalink Reply by Dominic on November 28, 2008 at 6:42pm

When I feel I'm being attacked, I ask myself... "Who is being attacked?" The answer is "the part of me being attacked is the egoic-mind made self." The part of me that feels attacked is the part of me that feels it will be diminished by the attack and feels the need to defend. This egoic mind-made self is an illusion... to defend it is meaningless! As if the real essence of who I am, the One Universal could be diminished!

My boss blew up at me last week and in that moment, I asked myself, "Can I be the space for this anger, this reaction?" I didn't react back to him and because there was no pain-body for his to react to, he was eventually able to to calm down and even later apologize.

This surrendering in the moment is not an invitation for abuse, inaction, or for later feeling resentful... it is the realization that the "attack" is merely an energy vibration from another person... nothing to take personally!

Another way to think about this is through Eckhart Tolle's 3 Modalities of Being. That if you are not in one of these modalities, you will find that there is resistance subtle or evident creating your unhappiness.

So in each moment, ask yourself...

1) Can I -accept- this moment? Even if there is great suffering, can you really just accept what is, without resistance? In any event, what is, simply cannot be changed. Can I bring full acceptance into the Now? If you can... then...

2) Can I -enjoy- this moment? Even "suffering" can be enjoyed!

3) Can I be -enthusiastic- for this moment?

The other portals that Eckhart advises is to feel the inner aliveness or energy-field of the body, or to bring an Inner- YES to what is, or to ask the mind to "Stop Thinking." Resistance only happens in the mind. Stay in the body! No self (no thoughts), no problem!

:)

Dominic

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Permalink Reply by AwesomeUniverse!!! on November 28, 2008 at 7:06pm

Thank you so much for that Dominic. I have had some issues with people projecting their own problems on me- it's kind of weird. When it comes down to a boss situation it's like- well if you were better at planning and communicating then it wouldn't come down to this but it has. I've seen people with anger problems keep their jobs and the poor secretaries just quit one after the other. It would be nice to be a healer that could take that situation and turn it around to help everyone but it's kind of like if noone mentions it it didn't really happen.

Or if you tell your boss that the reason things didn't work out was because of his lack of planning you might be considered insubordinate. I know I have been a witness to these situations for a reason.

In general I think more enlightened people need to move into situations where people are not soul raping them every day. But some people can just live in these horrendous conditions for years it's sad.

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Permalink Reply by Dominic on November 29, 2008 at 4:03am

Yes! If we are truly to create "a new earth" then we must all be bringers of the new consciousness! My boss is a stress-case who draws people into his tornado... but of course... that is not who he truly is in his essence! The new consciousness is most needed where it's most difficult!

Namasté... Dominic :)

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Permalink Reply by marina on January 31, 2009 at 11:26pm

ah, yes, new earth...very good!

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Permalink Reply by Heather on April 2, 2009 at 12:07am

Wow! I love having moments like this. It is so interesting, having now read the book and having had time to digest, absorb and take time to practice the teachings of E.T.
The other day I was at a Basketball game and I will spare you the details, but a very pain bodied person sat behind me. When I left the game he did something that I am sure one day he will regret if he is ever awakened, and I am sure did not make him feel any better for afterward. But, as I sat and watched him purge himself of his ego, hate and whatever, I could not have been more at peace and just hoped that in the moment of presence between he and I that he could feel my understanding that he needed to release his painbody, it would not be absorbed by me, and I would be moving on. A most interesting evening, but truly enlightening for myself.

Thanks to you all and E.T. for making me feel so wonderful in life.
xoxo Heather

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