What is the difference between problems and situations?  A situation is information merely; it is what presents. It can be captured in a simple statement of fact that all parties would agree on.  “They are getting a divorce.” “You graduated high school.” “I live alone.”

A situation is information, merely. You could picture your reality as one situation after another, presenting.

 

 

When you designate a situation as a problem, you are introducing what was not there before. You bring in the idea that any situation could warrant being taken seriously enough that you could be downcast. You experience emotions: despair, panic, anxiety, all of fear’s other names, which are legion.  You are a puppet whose strings are being pulled. You are having a knee jerk reaction.

 

 

Are you consciously choosing to have these reactions ? Was it your intention to feel depressed, dispirited, powerless?

 

A reaction is never conscious. It is involuntary, the fright of your animal self, who is convinced that nothing can exist outside of his five senses.  See him.  Thank him for being here.  Let him go now.

 

 

 

Entertain no fears. Deny them space, send them away if they try to come. Instead, be still. Remember who you are, unlimited and peaceful. And then choose the response you would delight to have.

 

 

 

Deny problems, and you turn yourself into a surface upon which problems cannot stick. Problems are perceptions, unlimited and relentless. To deny problems is to deny them even one receptor cell within you, and it is to rise above them until they quickly crumble away as worthless dust already shaken loose.

 

 

If there is a situation to be dealt with, then let me deal with it. Show me how to address it, direct me what to do,  and make me open to all the help I need.  That is all I want in response to anything that presents. To entertain fear and anguish at the arise of any situation is an absurd overreaction. It is like having a fit of the vapors because a wave is going to break.

 

 

Every wave is going to break. Every flower will bloom and die, as you think. It is not necessary, it is folly, to pay much attention to the happenings of this world. Ask instead to be helpful, relax, be open and let everything fall out as it may.

How may I help?