Tests in real life. How to accept life's challenges. Trials as a Means to Manifest God's Glory
A person passes the test of life at different stages of his development, while overcoming difficulties and emotional stress. However, after some time, he discovers that the changes that have taken place in life, as a rule, were directed from the “bad” pole to the “good” pole, and as a result of them personal growth occurred with a qualitative change in life values. Fate, as it were, pushed a person to these changes in life and a new level of personal growth, creating trials in life. After all, the person himself would hardly want to change anything in his life if everything was arranged in it the best way. And the forced desire to overcome difficulties, the search for a way out of the current unpleasant situation forced to mobilize all the internal potential, activate the human psychological factor - the creative beginning of a person and reach a new level of his development.
And do not try to get around the stones.
Don't throw them down in a frenzy.
Let the obstacles on your way
They turn into steps all the time...
Don't curse the stones under your feet
Here is the height that opens up.
Think for yourself: whenever they
Could you climb up the mountain?
Valentine. Sidorov
The test of life is always a step into the new, the unknown, so for many it is a difficult, often frightening and not always pleasant process. Our life resembles a zebra, so if you are now undergoing trials and changes, then remember that a black stripe is always followed by a white one, after a night dawn comes, and after troubles there will certainly be joys. You just need to have patience, acceptance and humility and honestly pass this test, changing your qualities through personal growth, comprehending everything that happened more deeply and adjusting your life values. So, it's time to put things in order in your life and get rid of all the rubbish accumulated in it - both in the physical and emotional sense, it's time to learn a new life lesson and pass the exam for stamina and strength of mind. And then the wheel of Fortune will certainly turn in your favor. Change cannot be resisted. you can ruin your life a lot.
We are all students in this life, and as students (some losers, others excellent students), we react differently to the test of life. Difficulties harden some people, make them stronger, enrich them with invaluable experience, others break and lead to prolonged depression, degradation and even a fall. Why?! We all know that it is not the difficulties that make a person a failure, but the attitude towards them. And if a person passes the test of life, it means that he develops, is in motion, overcomes the resistance of his former self. In general, you need to get used to the trials of life and perceive them as a kind of step forward, which makes you rethink the situation and move forward. Take the test of life as a sign that you are not degrading.
What is the best way to get through this difficult period?
1) You must definitely accept the situation as an opportunity for your further personal and spiritual growth and believe in the prospect of the useful experience that you will receive. After all, problems and trials are really just new opportunities in unattractive packages. The mood will give you energy. We must learn to react calmly and benefit for ourselves, to perceive difficulties as an opportunity to learn something new - how new stage personal growth to improve life values and expand your comfort zone. Don't let hope for a change for the better leave you! Optimism and calm confidence in the successful outcome of any events become a kind of talisman that attracts good luck.
2) As soon as you came to your senses and calmed down, you need to make an analysis of the events and the corresponding conclusions. Then the regularity and repetition of events in life will be revealed, and you will see that any troubles have a dominant cause - your human psychological factor, i.e. a set of character traits (lack of perseverance, responsibility, sociability, pride, closeness, etc.). You will immediately see that the cause of any problems must be sought in oneself, but not for the purpose of self-flagellation, but in order to understand why these problems arose and how to avoid them in the future.
3) After analysis, you will be able to realize that life has given these trials to gain experience. After all, whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger. The test of life and the changes that have occurred as a result of this make us wiser, more responsible and more mature in personal terms, more flexible and self-confident, forcing us to boldly change habitual patterns of behavior, gain new experience. Without these tests, there would be no progress. Everything that has not stood the test of reality and common sense, should be ruthlessly discarded. Most likely, this is the ballast that you no longer need. Everything will come better, but not immediately, but gradually in accordance with your internal changes. It is this positive way of thinking that will serve you in good stead at the time of trial.
4) Do not be afraid of suffering at the time of trials in life, for suffering does not allow the soul to become dead. Amazing is the one who did everything for real: loved and hated, praised and despised, thought and suffered, rejoiced and cried. For nothing human is alien to us. It is the gamut of feelings that does not allow a person to become an empty flower. The main thing is to remain true to your convictions, not to lose your spiritual core, not to lose your acquired virtues. Take the coming storm seriously, but don't let it destroy your fortifications.
5) The test of life makes it clear what is valuable for a person in this life, what he already has and what he should strive for. This is every time a review of their life values and raising them to a new level. It is the test that makes it clear the depth or illusory nature of relationships, attachments, interests, aspirations and motivations. It is this new turn in life that makes it possible to appreciate the most ordinary things that we passed by without noticing and begin to experience the joy of their existence.
6) At the time of testing by life, a person, as a rule, thinks only about the past or the future. Especially a lot of mental strength is taken away by experiences about the past. A person again plunges into situations that in fact have not existed for a long time. It doesn't exist in the present. But it is the moment between the past and the future that is called life! Therefore, it is very important to stop nostalgic or dreaming, but you just need to look around, breathe in the aromas of the surrounding nature, realize that you have new opportunities and prospects for development, how wonderful it is to live here and now, to see all the positive of what you already have, and not dwell on insults, accusations, excuses. And troubles will immediately lose their negative power
7) And, of course, the test of life clearly clears the space around a person, highlighting true friends and loved ones who are ready to lend a shoulder in difficult times and checking the pseudo relationship for truth. It's not for nothing that they say: when you rise, your friends will know WHO YOU are. When you fall, you will find out WHO YOUR FRIENDS are.
And the last. The test of life and personal growth makes it possible to make the most of your resources to solve absolutely any problem. You must always remember that the bird of happiness sits only on an open palm. Therefore, let no test close you from the world, let you lose trust and openness, Faith, Hope and Love. After you go through this, your soul will become much easier, and your life will seem much brighter and more joyful.
10. About trials and sufferings
Why are there trials and tribulations in life? Is it possible to do without them? Trials, difficulties and contradictions are necessary. When the Creator sends us into the world, depending on the actions committed in previous lives and the life path He sets certain conditions, and we "sign" certain obligations that we will do this or that. Everything must be tested, but only in its own time and place: a teacher in a school, a priest in a church, a warrior on the battlefield. Trials are a privilege for those who understand and accept them. Without trials, a person cannot approach the Creator. When we go through trials, we do not know the point towards which the Creator is striving. There are trials that cannot be avoided, because there are things absolutely predetermined in our present life. If you want to avoid small troubles and trials, then know that big ones will certainly come to you. There is no need to deceive yourself in the slightest and hope that if everything worked out today, everything is in order, then tomorrow will not change your life and will not bring you well-deserved retribution and suffering, from which you escaped and which you did not expect. As when you sweat, impurities come out of you and your breathing becomes better, so when you suffer, it shows that you have gone from the right way and must pay for their sins. Fate or Providence predetermined what trials a person's life will go through. Why? To cross a deep river you need a boat; to cross an ocean you need a steamboat. In order to move from one world to another, you need a more powerful steamer called "faith". And trials and tribulations are also necessary - this is fuel, this is your ticket to travel.
People influence each other. If you live among sick people, you will experience their condition. If you live among healthy people, you will also experience their condition. The second case is preferable for your health and development. By virtue of this law, a person must desire in his soul that he has a healthy body, noble feelings and bright thoughts. This he should wish for the people around him.
The more significant the trials, the more a person has the opportunity to approach the Great Bright Brotherhood. Without passing through unbelief, hopelessness, hatred, evil, the darkness of life, poverty, a person will never come close to the Creator. You need to know that strong people are being tested, and not weak ones, those who know, and not the ignorant, are being tested. In general, the weakest and ignorant people have the fewest trials. It is only through trials that one who finds the truth becomes free. The Earth is a divine School, to which a person is sent to study, in order to pass the tests that are destined for him in the current incarnation. In other words, the Earth is a School for the individual human soul.
Only through trials does a person understand what true Love, Faith and Hope are. Only in this way will he understand that Love is stronger than hatred, indifference and pride, hell and death, Faith is stronger than unbelief, Hope is stronger than hopelessness, goodness is stronger than evil. And who are our neighbors? These are rational souls - thanks to them we are tested every day. Our neighbors are Angels manifesting on Earth through people. You meet a sick, weak, infirm person through whom you are being tested. A certain Angel appears through him, he wants to examine you, to see how you do. Christ says: “What you have done for the poor, the sick, the suffering, the prisoners, is the same as what you have done for Me. I was in them." Therefore, if you are caring for the sick, the poor, the suffering, it is the same as if you were caring for Christ. This is the outer side of the test. Having endured it, you will come to the inner essence of the exam - it is more difficult. Having withstood it, you will meet the One who loves you, Whom you love too.
Jesus Christ was the God-man. The word "Jesus" means the Man who descends to Earth, the Brother of the afflicted. He possessed a science that to this day remains hidden from man. But even as the Son of God, Christ was subjected to great trials. For 40 days in the wilderness, he ate one Sacred Bread - the Word of God. Whatever misfortune befalls you, learn from it. Any suffering, any trial takes its place in life, and in the future it will bring innumerable benefits to those who understand and accept it. The teacher said: “If you want to understand the meaning of life, take an example from the dead. When you are praised or reproached, when you are happy and when you are unhappy, not a sound, not an echo, not a word about this. There are no accidents in nature. Through the path of comprehension of perfection, a great future awaits humanity. Earth is a great school, a great university where people came to study. Jesus Christ spent 33 years at this university. Having superbly passed the examination, He returned to Heaven and took the very high place allotted to Him. A student of the Eastern school is usually given artificial trials, and he endures them. In the West now, as a rule, they are not created. There are only natural tests, and the student must endure them well. For example, someone will come and be rude to you - be a hero, go up to him, say: “Please come back to my house!” To do this, one must be vividly aware of one's connection with the Creator, not thinking much about consequences, but about principles.
Suffering is the laws by which the Lord helps us to progress. Suffering is a consequence of mistakes, evil, once committed by us. It is these mistakes that are corrected in the process of suffering. Do you know what causes suffering in our lives? One of the significant reasons for this is the senseless extermination of mammals, the senseless killing of people. When the souls of the slain go to the astral world, they bring the conditions for nervous diseases and unfriendly relations between people. The executed robber freely moves among weak-willed people and inspires them with a sense of revenge. We have only now, in the present era, begun for real suffer and become more sensitive. Indeed, modern people suffer more, but their suffering is something noble, suffering is what will rebuild society.
All the suffering in the world comes from the fact that people want to live on their own. Two causes give rise to illness and suffering: one is physical (wrong breathing and nutrition), the second is mental (wrong thinking and feeling). When a person suffers, he is in the position of the sick. Loneliness is the heaviest suffering that a person can experience. Evil is always born from the desire to be the only one, to become the center of the world; it nests not in the mind, but in the heart. Often we cannot understand why we suffer. Suffering shows that we have lost the energy of our lives. We will suffer until we restore the lost balance. One must submit to temporary suffering; when we die and rise again, we will understand why they were. When you suffer, say to yourself, "I have not gone all the way of the grain of wheat." And when your thoughts, your heart are transformed and become beautiful, then you will acquire the image and likeness of God, then the Creator will resurrect you, just as the Sun revives a sown grain of wheat. So, in all cases of life, consciously breathe deeply. You are in a bad mood, sad, your head hurts, your lower back hurts - breathe deeply! Sore leg, arm - breathe deeply. Back, stomach, stomach hurts - also breathe deeply. Don't be afraid of pain. They are a blessing to you. If there were no illness and suffering in life, then your situation would be worse than the one in which you sometimes find yourself. Sickness and suffering correct people, and with the help of deep breathing, you will quickly come to recovery and be free from suffering. As soon as spring comes, start going for a walk every morning. The sooner you get out, the better. Step out into the open sky fresh air, away from city dust and smoke and spend at least one hour breathing, gymnastic exercises. After that, you can begin the work that lies ahead of you that day. Indians have special exercises for breathing, which are not suitable for Europeans. You need to breathe deeply, strive to breathe smoothly and rhythmically. Exercise #1 for breathing: you stand straight. Slowly raising your arms up, inhaling air at a count of 1-6. Holding air and counting to at least 3. Slow lowering your arms down, exhaling air at a count of 1-6; the exercise is repeated 6 times. Exercise #2: in the morning and before lunch, inhale through the left nostril and exhale through the right. In the evening, inhale through the right nostril and exhale through the left. Do the exercise 21 times a day: in the morning, before lunch and in the evening 7 times. Exercise #3: Clench your fists, bend your elbows and touch your shoulders with your fists. Slowly straighten your arms to the sides, inhale deeply, hold it and then slowly lower your arms down and exhale slowly. If you get tired, rest a little and do this exercise a few more times. In this way, you take in enough prana and air, and the blood begins to move: the capillaries expand and blood circulation increases. During deep breathing, you will feel at first some obstruction, but by observing constancy, you will free yourself from it and gain freedom in breathing. And then you will get rid of many even nascent sufferings.
There are plants that treat the most dangerous and intractable diseases. Whoever does not know these plants suffers. Therefore we say that people suffer because of their ignorance. Study plants and them healing properties. In nature, there are many medicinal plants that, when used appropriately, free a person from any disease. For example, flowers contain a healing power that must be used at a certain time. The healing power of flowers is not always the same. It depends on the weather, month, day and hour when they are collected. Two prescriptions. If you suffer from a very bad cough, take the dry skins of 10 onions and boil them in water. Strain the water and put in it 0.5 kilograms of honey, 1-2 tablespoons of crushed mustard, 1-2 tablespoons of flaxseed. Take 1 scoop of this mixture 3 times a day - morning, noon and evening. Very soon you will feel the effect of this powerful tool. Couch grass with olive oil is also very good for coughing. Boil wheatgrass for 15 minutes and drink this water. Then brush your throat with olive oil and take a little olive oil inside. Drink in the morning, at noon and in the evening one cup of wheatgrass water. It is nutritious, and on the other hand, it has a healing effect - it will relieve all pain and stop coughing.
A person who wants to love the Creator must expect and experience the greatest suffering in the world. No one can endure suffering if he does not have Love. People who are afraid of suffering are not needed by God's School. We must thank the Creator for our suffering. They are the path of our ascent. Whoever has not suffered cannot experience the Divine principle of Love. When someone says that he has not seen suffering, he is still green. Green is pleasant, but when ripening comes, so does suffering. Suffering is a sign of God's Love, and may we all bear this cross. To love the Creator, we must be ready to sacrifice ourselves at any moment, just as the Creator sacrifices himself for us. Know that every misfortune brings blessing, every difficulty opens new horizon. Therefore, there is no need to worry about the misfortunes and suffering that may befall us. Moreover, if suffering comes to you, this means that you have been placed in a kiln so that you, your character (your stone), will turn into the necessary spiritual lime. There are stones so hard that they are not fired in a kiln, they show their helplessness to evolution, uselessness, that is, absolute unsuitability; they are thrown out.
When Peter says “wish,” he wants to express by this the inner process of burning that happens to the person himself. Through this firing, those higher forms are formed in the mind that can pass from one world to another. This is facilitated by the process of dilution with water. So if you have two thoughts in your mind that are bothering you, tormenting you, and you are suffering because of them, do not be sorry, take one of them, put it in the oven, light a fire under it and burn it. Doing this with the thousands of restless thoughts that pass through your mind is like burning thousands of kilos of limestone and selling the resulting lime. You can also mentally experience the sufferings of Christ, so you will be tempered in them. Thus, you will not only get rid of unnecessary burden, but also gain a lot. What happens in the physical world, by analogy, happens in the spiritual world. Every process that takes place on Earth is also taking place in Heaven at the same time. And vice versa: every process that takes place in Heaven also takes place on Earth. If you understand this law correctly, you will know that when you suffer on Earth, they rejoice in Heaven, rejoice at our purification.
When you are crucified, then you will enter the Kingdom of God. Let us all be followers of Christ, let us worthily bear the name of Christians on Earth. Let's leave aside what others say. Let us be long-suffering and supportive, and let us fulfill our duty to the Creator as we understand him in our pure thoughts and desires. And we will never stop on this Great path, we will boldly and resolutely meet the suffering that arises on our path, and we will encourage everyone who walks with us. It is the strength with which we will overcome all present and future difficulties and suffering. In suffering for Christ, man will find true life. Suffering on Earth is the greatest thing for a student, because through it he receives the best lessons. And through suffering the disciple grows, in suffering consciousness awakens. And in regard to suffering, you should not be passive. When it comes, accept it quietly and calmly. Then your position will become clear and you will benefit. At the same time, work actively to deal with it. While it lasts, do not lose balance and peace. Have a reasonable attitude towards him, understanding him inner meaning and meaning. This is how you turn suffering into harmony. When a person loves the Creator, suffering is easily endured.
On the subtle plane, there are always Higher beings who protect you, and to whom you can turn for help.
To become wiser. This is the most obvious answer that comes to mind.
Why do we need wisdom?
To understand what we are doing and why.
What is this for?
To let everything superficial out of us, because that is how we begin to shine with our true light.
And why do we need this?
And this is already needed not so much by our personality (read, ego), but by our soul.
What is the soul striving for?
To express ourselves in the world through our personality based on pleasure, flight, joy, happiness. These feelings are inherent in the Higher Self. But our Ego spoils all the aspirations of the soul, plunging the personality into experiences of duality.
Duality is a unity divided into two halves or, in other words, a pair of opposites.
Everything that happens to us happens as living, and then learning, duality through a reaction to it. The soul longs to be free from the duality of perception. The ego is clinging.
How does this study take place? Here are some simple examples.
You were the executioner. Then you live the fate of the victim.
You were a rapist. Then violence is committed against you.
You were the overseer. Then the whip goes over your back.
You were a commander, a warrior, you loved war. Now you are fighting her, describing her horrors as a journalist.
You didn't want to know the truth about what you did, thinking that if it happened, you would escape punishment. It happens in another life, but this secret lies like a stone on your soul, and you would be happy to tell and be free, but then another duality takes up - the fear of losing the respect of the family and the desire to be proud of you.
Imagine the irony - those who are now actively attacking gays with rage may be gay in one of their next lives. The more rage, the greater the likelihood of such an outcome. Nothing goes missing.
Moreover, the return of unlearned lessons of past lives does not proceed linearly, but, as it were, in a spiral. Imagine the turns of the spiral, mark a point on one turn, and a point parallel to it on the other. There may be several lives between them that are not connected by lessons with these lives.
The duality under study can be, at first glance, cruel (the executioner - the victim), it can be quite harmless, without physical manifestations of the lesson (pride - humiliation). In each case, it may be different.
Duality is experienced and explored when you get to its very edge. This is where you experience strong emotions. And where there is no equal relationship, duality appears. The bell rings - you need to return the balance. And they return it by giving you the opportunity to experience the other extreme. You are constantly slipped into situations where, for example, you experience humiliation. Because pride is born out of humiliation and vice versa. But being in pride, you close your eyes, do not realize that your fear of humiliation gave birth to it. And until you understand how it was born in you, it will be difficult to find balance. The task is to get rid of the hook, from the duality of perception of the same thing.
By the way, forgiveness is one of the tools of such liberation. Forgiveness brings your energy back. However, if you are constantly angry, then instead of constantly forgiving, first figure out what is behind your anger.
So, freedom appears when the duality of perception disappears.
You calm down, and the topic ceases to excite you. Energy is no longer spent there and can be directed to creating something useful to you.
Thus, by freeing yourself from the duality of perception, you purify your energy field. Your vibrations are rising.
Why all these vibrations?
Have you watched movies or read about the post-apocalypse? Like "I'm Legend" or "The Book of Eli".
How do most people behave there, remember? Only lower vibrations are involved, namely instincts - survival, sex and power. 1,2 and 3 chakras.
The upper world, namely the manifestation of 4-7 chakras, is a big question.
I gave an example of a post-apocalypse because of its visibility. But in our world, many people live exclusively on the manifestation of the first three chakras. These are the lower vibrations.
The higher the vibration, the more beauty around a person notices, the more his heart is opened, the more he follows the dictates of the soul, high thoughts and spiritual truths. The more love he has, and the more love he brings around.
Then the world becomes more joyful, merrier and happier. In it, people do more good things. And this does not mean that the manifestations of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd chakras disappear. It's just that their manifestations are spiritualized through the manifestations of the upper chakras.
This is what we are striving for.
Raw and boiled or the only way to find out the truth about yourself
Why are external difficult circumstances given to a person?
In order for us to change under their influence, for what else! Well. Why should we change, you ask?
The answer is simple. The thing is that only by changing under the influence of external aggressive circumstances, a person can discover his true nature.
In order for a masterpiece to be born from a block of marble, it must be hewn with a sculptor's chisel. In order for a lump of shapeless clay to become an excellent utensil, which will adorn a private collection or a museum through the centuries, this clay must first be crushed ruthlessly with fingers - a potter, a demiurge, and then, burned - a hot oven.
How difficult circumstances change a person and reveal their true nature
“Finding yourself” is, after all, the goal of human life. Psychology, religion, and philosophy agree with this. The only people who disagree with this are those who are currently being crushed or pushed into the fire...
I will tell the old a parable about how people react differently to the difficult circumstances of life. From this parable it turns out that there are only three types of people - according to three types of reactions to the so-called "discomfort" ... In any classifications, for some reason, there is always an excess of three types - and more is not needed.
However, if you have any thoughts of your own, and you want to argue or continue this metaphorical series, or even rethink it in some other way, then we will be able to adequately “finish” this parable. Here she is.
The Parable of the Egg, Carrot and Coffee
Once a young disciple came to the guru and complained to him about his difficulties:
- Teacher, I'm so tired, I have some kind of wrong, hard, hard life. It feels like I'm swimming against the current all the time, so I have almost no more strength ... You are wise. Tell me what should I do?
The Guru instead of a long, lengthy answer in "words" performed a strange ritual.
He went to the stove and put three identical pots of water on the fire. Guru threw into one pot raw carrots, in another he put an ordinary chicken egg, and in the third pot he poured ground coffee ....
After a while the guru took out the carrots from the boiling water. Then an egg. And then took beautiful cups and poured into them fragrant coffee brewed in the third pot.
- What has changed, in your opinion? the guru asked his young disciple.
- Egg with carrots - boiled ... Well, coffee, coffee just dissolved in water, - the young man answered.
- This is a correct, but only a superficial view of things - this is how most people judge, so they are never happy, the wise guru chuckled.
I will teach you to look at ordinary things and ordinary processes that occur with these things as spiritual metaphors , giving the key to understanding the nature of things - the guru chuckled.
Look at the first metaphor
Once upon a time hard carrots, having been in boiling water, suddenly became soft and pliable.
And here is the second metaphor
Liquid the egg, having been in boiling water, suddenly became hard.
Outwardly, they have not changed much. However, they - both the carrot and the egg - have changed their internal essence under the influence of the same external adverse circumstances - boiling water.
Isn't that what we see in people's lives?
Under the influence of misfortune, outwardly strong people can become limp, become weaklings ...
While some, about whom they said: they are too “fragile and tender” for this life, will only harden and get stronger in adversity and difficulties ...
“Well, what metaphor does this fine coffee represent?” the disciple asked his guru.
- O! Coffee is the fun part!
The third metaphor is coffee
As you can see, our coffee has completely dissolved in the new hostile environment and, having dissolved, changed it. Coffee, ground into powder, turned some tasteless boiling water into a magnificent aromatic drink.
There is a third type of people, oh special people!
These people do not change due to difficult circumstances that aggressively try to suppress them - no! They themselves will change these circumstances and turn them into something new and beautiful ...
Who you are? Carrots that have become soft and “cooked”?
Hard boiled egg hardened by fire?
Or coffee, which “created something new and beautiful”, having fallen into the difficult circumstances offered by someone (who was not asked about it)?
You will never know this until you stop seeing only “negative” in difficulties and from this - to be afraid and avoid them in every possible way.
Furthermore. If it suddenly turns out that you were conceived as coffee , but you never had to get into the “boiling water” ... this is what will happen...
The coffee will expire and lose its aroma. Such coffee will be thrown out immediately or brewed, but they will immediately throw away the resulting “burda”, loudly disappointed in the quality of the drink received and the time wasted in vain ...
And finally...
Carrot Salad with Egg…
The fate of the boiled “carrot” is not so sad ... This real carrot is not destined to become hard anymore, once bathed in boiling water. But man is a completely different matter.
It just so happened that outwardly “strong” people, having fallen into difficult circumstances and weakened in them, always meet unexpected support and support in the person of those who seemed to everyone outwardly “weak”, but in the face of hardships showed fantastic courage.
For some reason, these people are always unconsciously drawn to each other and always find each other, as if fate helps them in this ...
Examples can be cited - many.
Maybe fate disposes of it this way, in order to make the “supposedly strong” less self-confident, and therefore more tolerant and humane, but the “supposedly weak”, on the contrary, more confident in their truly limitless powers?