Practice curiosity, non-judgement and openness
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I am as guilty of this as anyone else, but so many of us reduce other people down to one or two “bad” behaviours that we experience them do, and that’s it; we have officially written them off as “bad people”.
Of course, if someone is consistently a jerk, feel free to remove yourself from your life to set those healthy boundaries.
Aside from that, we must employ a more expansive view of people. This is also true of people we don’t find very nice to be around, but it is also not a reason to necessarily keep them around.
All human beings are spirits moving through a human experience with past lives and a spiritual lesson to move through. We don’t know what their past lives were, nor do we know what their lesson is.
Unfortunately, their lesson could be not being a very open and warm person and saying that the lesson for them could also be to move from being a horrible person to someone we want to spend time with.
We just don’t know.
Anyone who says they are certain doesn’t know what they are talking about.
All we can do as individuals are to work on ourselves and do our best to impact our community positively.
So, instead of making assumptions and judgements about people, let us practice hesitating, pausing and asking questions to remain curious, non-judgemental and open about who they are. In a similar vein, this also applies to ourselves.
Approach yourself with curiosity, non-judgement and openness too.
As Gabor Mate says, “Knowing oneself comes from attending with compassionate curiosity to what is happening within.”
I often say 99% of the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and others are untrue.
The word story is critical there, as most stories we tell are fictional without facts we have made up to make sense of our reality. All of that makes sense; we must tell stories; otherwise, we would get lost quickly. At the same time, untrue, limiting stories do not help create a path forward for collaboration, healing and flourishing.
On a personal level, the trick is to do your best with the cards that you have been dealt and accept your path for what it is. I know that’s easy to say when you have just a meal and have access to a warm shower and people who love you. Even so, if you have access to read this, it is a mental state to work towards.
Being consistently angry, cynical and in a victim mindset does not serve you long term. Having periods of that is absolutely fine, but when you wallow in that place, it can become a problem.
Stand tall and be confident. Life is too short for anything else.
The reality of past lives
Many people are unaware of this, and most people probably don’t believe in it, but we do have past lives, and sometimes heavy energies from those lives can seep into this life.
We don’t want our past lives to be tyrannising the present. Nor do we know who is going through that experience.
We can heal them through meditation.
You can start that healing journey using this meditation, freely available on YouTube.
Our spiritual lesson
I have said a few times in this text that we all have a spiritual lesson to move through, and that is the case. I want to highlight that your current life is never a “punishment” for what you did in a past life, nor will you be punished in the next.
That is simply not how it works.
We all have a learning queue, meaning we must move through all kinds of life, not only the once we deem pleasant, for the progression of our spirit.
Again, easy to say when you have a roof over your head and money in the bank.
I do not wish what I say above to come across as spiritual bypassing, and you have to see what you feel.
I often think that the strongest spirits are the ones who move through the hardest of lives.
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