Do not try to solve your problems; that just gives them life.

To be solving a problem means you first decided a situation was a problem.  Would you agree that two people could approach the same situation, in two different ways?

 

 

Whoever designates a situation as a problem will be defeated by it. He will always have it. Even when it appears to be solved, it is a sleeping dragon, a dormant volcano, ever capable of coming back to life. Dormant or active, dead or alive, what you name as a problem will rule you.

 

To name a problem is to give up your free will. Free will and fear cannot co-exist.  A problem is something you potentially cannot handle.  Here is something I fear. I will spend my time learning how to deal with it and how to tame it. I will look at how others deal with the same problem.  I will study it and master it.

 

 

Who will be master?

 

It will not be you.  By naming anything as a problem, you have given yourself up, betrayed your true Self, admitted you do not believe you have access to that perfect creative power that sets to right each tiny gnat’s feeler, and each galaxy in each imaginable universe.

 

 

If you had access to that power, allied with the most exquisite intelligence, how could anything be called a problem? By admitting to a problem, you cut yourself off from this perfect Knowing,  Seeing, and Loving that brought you into being.

If God is with us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:31

 

Life is full of situations.  How could it be otherwise?  The more you pay attention to the vicissitudes, the constant changingness of life, the more you encourage that kind of energy to come. Whatever you pay attention to increases.

 

What would you increase?

 

I would increase peace in the world.  That is the first order of business. How would I do that?  All I have is my mind, my power of choice, but it is enough. I would give my mind to peace, think on it, dwell in it, imagine it. What would it feel like?  How would it sound?  This I would do for five minutes, because that is five minutes more than I am doing right now.

I will take time away from incubating whatever I have designated as “my problems”, and give that time to increasing what I would increase.  When I find myself thinking about what I have called “my problems”, let me remember it was my decision to name a situation as a problem, rather than as an occasion for light to shine.  I would now like to become part of that light.

 

 

And, as often as you may find yourself giving time to a “problem”, use this occasion to remind yourself, “I choose instead to give this time to peace.” And then do so.

 

 What power in broken habits