Sai Baba (https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/help_others)
As I write on, pretending to be the expert I am not lol...knowing not the truth in what I say only "feeling" it....I want to speak a little more on the idea of lowering resistance so that we can fulfill our function here. Remember that our function...our true function is God's/Source's/Life's purpose for us not ego's.
Our function is happiness.
We have only one true function, according to A Course, and that function, according to Abraham, is to lower resistance in ourselves and in others so God and Source can enter. Happiness and true function are the same thing ( Lesson 66 ACIM). We are here to be happy and to help others to be happy. We are happy when we allow for the high energy of Source to flow through us, when we allow for God's presence in our lives.
We know we are off track, off purpose when we are not happy, when we are stuck in the fear based emotions below "acceptance of what is". We are resisting and the more we resist our purpose the worse we will feel and the more that resistance will show up as negative life circumstances. According to Abraham, all these negative emotions and experiences are just signs that we are out of alignment or "pinching ourselves off from Source." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wYAfI1lIO4)We in our physical world need for labels may call it depression, anxiety, bad luck...but it simply is a result of being out of alignment with God's function for us. We are meant to be happy!
How do we go from fear based emotion to happiness?
We leave fear behind for the happier rungs on our emotional ladder, by lowering resistance to it. We climb one ladder rung at a time. How? We soothe ourselves step by step, rung by rung. We soothe our thoughts so that we feel a bit better, a bit better and a bit better and until we eventually feel the soothing presence of "relief". Then we reach for the next ladder rung, the next emotion that feels better...again and again and again until we find ourselves climbing past fear into happiness. We soothe!
What soothes?
We use whatever we can to soothe...words, change of thought, music, the basics: exercise, fresh air, water and healthy food, fun, adventure, change of place, pets, a nap, relaxation, prayer, inspiration from others, mediation. And we stop focusing on what we don't want, what doesn't feel good! We need to open the resistance gate and make ourselves available for Source to enter for a few minutes so many times a day...not through busy work, numbing activities or substances but through stillness and silence. We bring ourselves up vibrationally...focusing more on feeling good than doing good...because it is only when we feel good that we can do good.
Doing Good
It is only when we are up that we can turn around and reach down to pull a brother up. We may, as I often am, be overwhelmed with the suffering of others and we may reach in blindly from our own dark spaces to help...but we do little good like that. We cannot bring another up vibrationally if we are standing on a ladder rung of worry, concern, hopelessness or fear. What we offer them there is just more negativity. We need to see them in their full potential and focus on what we want for them...not on where they are at. We need to feel good about them before we can help them feel good about themselves. We need to offer genuine hope and compassion from a place above, showing them the light that awaits them there.
Then we can soothe with love, positive praise, shared optimism and positive vision. We soothe the wounds with ointment that heals not with cheap remedies made of ingredients that have been mixed together by conditioned belief that do more harm than good.
Be Happy!
God has the perfect remedy and it is provided to you when you are happy. Be the soothing ointment that heals by being healed. :) Be happy.
All is well in my world.
References
ACIM (2007) Lesson 66 in A Course in Miracles: combined volume: Third Edition. Mill Valley: Foundations For Inner Peace.
Abraham workshop January 2018. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wYAfI1lIO4
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