One of the most common is the belief that once you have
become aware that more balance is possible, you should somehow become stabilized
in this new, improved place and be unaffected by life’s daily dramas.
Perhaps you have established a few simple, daily routines;
exercise, quiet times, breath work, meditation, gratitude journaling, etc. And
while the benefits of any of these activities may be subtle, you can immediately
feel the difference.
Typically, any of these sorts of practices make a good day
great, an average day better, and a bad day more tolerable. But they do not make you bullet proof. There will always be certain circumstances or
people that will get your goat and catapult you back into reactions that you
may have hoped you had left behind forever.
Don’t despair. You are not hopeless. You are just human.
It is an unreal expectation to imagine that your best
intentions and practice will somehow stabilize you in some perma-zen state that
will leave behind all your old conditioning. (Even Jesus, the Buddha and all
the Sages and Saints had their bad days too.)
Forget about trying to stabilize yourself in some perfect
state. Forget about judging yourself as
being a master at this or completely hopeless. Your job is to simply remember
you are that which is observing the coming and going of all states, thoughts and
emotions.
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