I love Spring, its warmth and green growing things after all the contrast of the cold and gray of Winter. Without contrast everything would be the same and after some time it becomes boring and tends to put me to sleep. Even very beautiful things repeated without any change or contrast become monotone and less and less pleasing. A single tone becomes tiresome hearing it repeatedly without another tone in-between and after a long enough time of hearing it, our ears can actually ignore it as if it was not there.
If everything were the same all the time we would soon become dull and sleep through our daily lives. It would be like eating the same food all the time without any variance. After many days of the same meal we would long for something different, something to spice it up, something different to eat.
I would propose the somewhat radical idea that all the contrast in our lives gives us the richness, the beauty that we so love, crave and enjoy. The radical part being, we invite the contrast into our lives to give us the opportunity to experience change, to allow us to choose what we really want and to wake us up. From an awake and consciously choosing place we then have the opportunity to invite more of what we really want into our lives.
Imagine you were invited to a large restaurant that had many chefs all cooking wonderful, different foods and they offered a giant table with everything they cooked for you to sample.
You would have the opportunity to sample, to try many different dishes, unique foods and different tastes of all kinds. Given the opportunity to choose whatever foods pleased you, I doubt that you would choose the foods that were unpleasant to you. Without the contrast of the other more pleasing foods though, you would not have the opportunity to refine and then choose the things you liked the very best. The more choices you have the more opportunity you have to find out what it is that you like the most. I am using this food analogy to possibly help you to understand better what I am going to say next.
I propose that there is a greater part of us actively working behind our usual consciousness that invites into our lives contrast of all kinds so that we then can more consciously choose what fits best for us in any given moment. When something in our daily life is offered to us it is the contrast that we have experienced that helps us decide if we wish to embrace this new thing or not. Sometimes the only way we can determine if this new thing is something we wish to keep in our life is by trying it and seeing how it feels and works in our lives. Trying something new will greatly enhance our lives and may offer us the opportunity to simply experience a contrast that will enhance our ability to choose wisely in the future. Our willingness to experience new things gives us more depth and understanding of ourselves.
Our world is filled with contrasts and it is our opportunity to choose amongst all the various choices what fits best for us at any given time. Through our choices in what we focus on and put our energy into we then get more and more of that particular focus and energy into our life. I suggest that you focus on those things pleasing to you and that bring you more joy, love, pleasure and happiness. It seems rather odd to me that if I went to that restaurant I mentioned above and given all the many choices available, that I would focus on and choose anything that was unpleasant and tasted bad to me.
So, if the whole world was your restaurant and you could choose among the different offerings what would you choose to focus on and bring into your life? When you catch yourself focusing on and ingesting things that are unpleasant to you I would advise you to make other choices and put your attention and energies into more pleasing things!
I invite you to take 10 minutes a day for the next 7 days, maybe in a simple meditation or before you go to sleep at night, to become aware of and begin celebrating all those things in your life that have brought you greater discernment (all that contrast). By celebrating rather than vilifying the contrast you have experienced in your life you will be offering an energy that is positive and invites more of the same positive energy to connect with you. Tell the “story” of how those things that have been your greatest challenges in this life has given you the greatest gifts. You have been given the gift of discernment and the knowing of what it is you really want. Offering a blessing to those people, events and situations that have been most challenging for you will naturally invite the Universe to bring more of what it is that fits best for you now and is in your highest and best alignment Now.
In Light, Love & Service,
Adama
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