How often we find ourselves in challenging interactions during the week! If you are like me it is more often than you would like, and each encounter tests our ability to stay focused on the best outcome for all concerned. This can be especially tricky in high-intensity relationships with family members, close friends or co-workers.
In such situations, the Angels encourage us not only to follow proper protocol for healthy relationships psychologically, but to defer to proper energetic care when necessary, as well. In challenging relationships, this often means not letting ourselves become the doormat upon which others dump their stress or fears. Instead, we are encouraged to try to shine the Light of hope and courage upon those walking through a dark and challenging portion of their Path. This must be done mindfully, all the while upholding the integrity of the spiritual Energy we have worked so hard to build in our own lives:
“Do not allow to fall the careful and glorious Temple of your inner space, which houses the Energy and devotion you have so lovingly and carefully created.”
We often tend to undervalue our own worth: the treasure of our bodies, the prize of a contented mind, the Temple of our spiritual essence. This last gift must be preserved above all else for, indeed, it is the only piece that lasts forever and encompasses who we truly are! Our life experience is meant to be an opportunity to enhance that inner Temple, adding on to its beauty, sanctity and power:
“Continue to build upon that ever higher-reaching foundation of discrimination, protection and the delineation between your energies and that of another.”
With these words we are reminded that the foundation of our spiritual practice is the ability to discriminate between positive and contracted energies and to protect the wellspring of positive Energy in our lives. Living a spiritual life does not mean we live the life of a dish-rag, allowing ourselves to be walked all over whenever someone else’s “misery loves company.” We are called to uphold–and indeed build upon–the foundation of spiritual discrimination and careful energetic protection we have created.
For example, this may mean rather than being a party to another’s victim mindset, we should instead remind her of her power and ability to flourish regardless of life’s challenges. If we truly want to help pull someone out of the quicksand, we must stay on solid ground ourselves and assist him or her from a place of steadfastness and strength. To climb in after them only means the downfall of both!
So this year, let us release empty gestures of being “nice at all costs,” which only serve to create disingenuous and debilitating relationships. My hope is that we preserve our carefully-built Temple of peace, wisdom and devotion, allowing It to serve as a place of refuge and encouragement for those in need.
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Grace and Clarity 