How do you treat your obstacles? Do you face them and challenge them, push them aside, run away from them, get frustrated or anything else?
I had an interesting experience to day when I was walking my dog. She kept walking directly into my pathway and I had to keep putting her next to me. I noticed I was getting more and more frustrated all because I was going somewhere and instead of walking next to me she had decided she was going somewhere and needed to be in front of me.
We played this game for a little while and then I had a little think about it. I thougght to myself, "what if this were an obstacle? How should I treat it?" I had been using somewhat aggressive techniques to put her next to me, commanding her, shortening her lead. None of these had produced any results.
Going around a corner I started to talk to her softly, gently nudged her wherever I wanted her to be while still praising her, while in my heart thanking her for teaching me something new. I noticed it made a difference to her and of course to me. The whole process suddenly became playful, peaceful even and enjoyable. So I went from being frustrated to a felling of serenity. The more I did this the better I felt, the more enjoyable our walk became. It was lovely and with the sweltering day that this was, it became a pleasant experience, and we walked next to each other ~ walking in the same direction.
Later on I thought about those people in our lives whom we are moving in the same direction towards but we don't see them moving that way; we see them blocking us, challenging us, frustrating us all because they are wanting to get to where ever it is that they are going and not realising we too are going there. How often do we have this? Often enough that we notice it ~ but we notice it not as something that can be pleasant, but as something that is against us.
Once we realise that the same people as those we think of as obstacles are moving in the same direction as ourselves we can respond to them differently. Start this in your life. Start noticing how you respond and change your response pattern. Start talking softly, gently nudging while letting the other person know that we are walking in the same direction whether it's vocally, energectically or with your body language. Start noticing the results you produce in your life from this. Start noticing your emotions changing, your thoughts and your life. Start noticing how you become more peaceful and be in flow of your surroundings.
