Resilience - The Power Of Faith

Resilience: The Power of Faith. When adversity strikes …who or what are your main supporters to pull you through? The soul is a being of peace. I am a being of love. So, why is it an effort to experience these qualities all the time? Who can guide and support me? Is there a peace expert?

Who is available 24/7 to help me be resilient during the storms of life? Accomplishing any task is easier if there is cooperation. Doing a big project alone can be daunting.

Transcript

I'm Shanti and welcome soul to soul and we're going to look again at resilience and this time we're looking at the power of faith and when adversity strikes who or what are your main supporters to pull you through. The soul is a being of peace so we look over and over in Mad Shoka being this energy in the center of the forehead. I am a being of love so if I am a being of peace and a being of love why is it an effort to experience these qualities all the time because I have to practice actually. So who can guide and support me? Is there a peace expert? Is there anything around? Peace expert? Who is available 24-7 to help me to be resilient during the storms of life because actually the storms just come in fast as anything in front of us there's nobody there quite often we're completely on our own and there's not even anything to ask it's just there and so who's going to help me who's going to support me. This is why Raja Yoga is such a valuable method or tool you might say or instrument so accomplishing any task is easier if there is cooperation. So doing a big project alone can be daunting however our inner world is very personal and unique and there will be tricky situations and emotions to understand and move through and it's this that takes faith to share all my secrets with another soul. That takes courage also but if there is faith and courage this sharing can help me. So let's have a look at what happens here. So who can I trust? Who will help to build my faith in myself and my resilience? I need to feel supported and accepted and unconditional love. No guilt shame fear anxiety worry or regret. So I need that kind of trust in someone. There is only one soul who can love this way 24-7. Think of the divine as a notion of peace and a being of unconditional love. And so you can chat to this soul friend and have faith in a being who will never hurt you. Never. Never judge. Only love. And so the source of peace always sees you as a beautiful powerful being of peace. Never sees you any different. When someone is always affirming you as a positive powerful being then you could start to feel that it could be true and then you're able to see yourself as more and more a positive and powerful being. Resilience grows and your belief in your inner strength can develop. So this sounds really wonderful this. Faith in yourself is rekindled. Someone feels so highly of me. Maybe some of that is true. So you start to develop that faith within yourself and it's this experience of the power of your thoughts about your original self the soul that builds your inner resilience. So it isn't blind faith. It's faith that's based on experience. But first you need to practice the power of soul conscious thoughts. And you need to share all your weaknesses with the one above the divine. Negative energies begin to dissolve and you can never feel like giving up and you can teach yourself to think I'm always ready for the next challenge because I know I'll get through it. Resilient powerful full of faith in myself and my friend the one above the divine. Okay. He said towards the end never give up. And I was thinking about resilience and this determination or perseverance how that's such an important quality perseverance and and it's very much like resilience. Yeah, Perseverance is a good word. But does it come in levels you know like I might persevere for so long and then that's my limit I kind of put a limit on myself how do I keep stretching my limits of perseverance or is it not as much of a struggle as that is it more a natural flow that develops. I would think it's more a natural flow that develops when you know that there's always benefit. When you have begun to realize that these good feelings and take away the trauma from the self and make the self actually start to feel worthwhile. That's what we've been looking for and we've been looking for reassurance that we're okay and if I start to feel this reassurance this is experience that I'm okay and so perseverance isn't so much a big sort of daunting wow persevere with this it's mine it's like no I'm not going to stop this wonderful experience I'm having because it's really helping me and when we feel that it's taking me through the tricky situations that were daunting me before and I'm not so daunted now. In a way it's still perseverance in a way but it's not that kind of perseverance force yeah okay. You mentioned as well the importance of developing a faith and a really pure soul a really good soul that's like a support that you referred to as the divine that was available 24-7 and you said it's like a peace expert. It sounds like an incredible being and maybe if I'm not feeling good about myself I feel like I don't really have a right to to connect or to source to be with that source if I'm not feeling great. How do I get out of that catch 22? Not feeling good enough to be with such a good being. If you practice meditation and rash yoga you'll know that you're worthy of being connected because everyone is a child of that one and that one's there like a spiritual mother father and you're never not worthy of your mother and father. So take all the chances when the going's good actually because this time is not going to last forever. This soul comes for a short time to help us not going to be there forever and this soul unconditionally loves all of us because this soul knows our journey knows our story and knows that no human being is in any condition to help us except in a very very small way but can't help us we can't be there in our minds and our thoughts 24-7 they'll all go away to work or go to sleep or whatever but this one's there the minute I have the thought that one's there and I can pour it out whatever it is and this is the important thing the pouring it out after a while if I keep pouring it out it begins to make sense to me what it is I'm struggling with and then I begin to appreciate. I heard in a class you were doing this morning you were basically saying that we're all going back to a really much higher state one way or another so we can either take an easy path which is the journey with the divine by our side or we can take a kind of tough path where we keep denying in a sense this wonder that you're describing it's quite strange to think of why I would give myself a tough path why would I not like you're saying make use of this time and make use of that support and that power of faith. Faith is a funny thing. Faith comes through some experience that we have and our experience has only been of our weaknesses and so we're full of the faith in our own weaknesses we're totally sure of these and we've also got the habit we also have the habit of hiding those weaknesses and so the thought of having to expose those weaknesses can be a very daunting process but if I start to really think about that there could be one who's an energy a soul who's not a physical being who's going to tell everyone about my weaknesses and it's like a one-to-one and that one's going to understand but during the understanding in a subtle way that one was the power of thoughts is going to show me my strengths and those strengths are going to be the thing that I will cling to like a raft and I can build on and think cautious how did they know that and yeah I do have strength and then that starts just the very tiny seed of faith in myself and if that faith in myself starts to flourish then I can start exposing more and more and talking more and more and accepting more and more of the help until I start to get a lot of faith in myself and start to recognize my journey for the reality of what it's been and be grateful love can develop as you're describing it's almost visualizing like a seed under the ground and then it's growing and you would never think that seeds gonna grow up into a huge beautiful plant with blossoms or fruits yeah but if it just keeps developing yeah it's in its potential yeah can we just jump back to the fact that the Dubai never judges again so I don't think there's many souls on the planet that don't judge and obviously the divine is really the only soul that never never never never judges why do I become so judgmental and critical of myself and others you said about I have such experience and faith in my weaknesses what can I do to move away from this constant criticism and judgmental attitude the more I begin to realize that the soul that I'm listening to and looking up to the one above doesn't have a body and my judgmental attitude comes from being conscious of my bodily form and how others see me and how they judge me and we're sort of desperate not to be judged would do all sorts of things to try and not be judged and that makes us anxious and it also gives us dislike of others and it also makes me judge them because I think well they say that about me but what about themselves and they're worse than me and all this till-tattle when the more I become bodyless see myself as a soul and energy I've been on a long journey I have had many bodies then I can be bodyless for a short period of time and maybe teach myself not to judge myself too harshly when I stopped judging myself too harshly and see how awful it is to feel being judged I won't want to judge others quite so critically or harshly I'll start to make allowances it's a big one and I think it's quite tricky to come away from being judgmental to being non-critical of others especially when you've been used to having the barriers up to defend yourself against their criticism or to have excuses and it's not just one little thought it's a whole army of thinking but when I start to look at no that's not the way to go I'll stop to the best I can if I start to criticize let me also find something good about them if I do that I'll start to maybe see the good in myself if I see the good in myself I'll stop criticizing myself giving myself such a fear factor against criticism and then believe it or not you can reach a stage where it's I'm pretty immune to criticism I'm not so I'm not so worried about let them criticize me they'll criticize me anyway no matter how tricky it is or how much effort I put into trying to stop them from criticizing me they're going to criticize me anyway because it's the habit of people at this time so once I'm not too bothered about them criticizing me because now I'm beginning to know how I am inside I'm making an effort here I'm doing my best to like you even though I know that you're talking about me and criticizing me and all sorts of things that are not fair actually but I'm getting used to this I'll get so used to the way I think about myself and I'm lifting myself up So it's like it you become more light-natured more easy inside yeah and also sometimes when we meditate sometimes if we're in the same room from time to time you'll actually giggle and meditation which I always find quite amusing so your meditation and your chit chat with the divine actually becomes very real and very fun and humorous at times how does that happen when it's all this outpouring of weaknesses and worry and and then sometimes you obviously are having fun well I think I have realization every now and again of how silly sometimes things are that worry us and I see I just see that a better image of myself and I see that gosh you've been worrying about this and and you know doing all sorts of things and trying to fix things and put yourself through such a journey and and it's everything's okay actually just relax and have faith in yourself and have faith in this one that you're sitting meditating with and I can have a wee giggle every now and again so how would you define success I would say that again it's back to faith in myself and the kind of attitudes that we're having if I'm not too much into advantages for the self but things that are useful and that would be good for the people around me as well and that I can develop that in the self so that I want to spread that vibration of the one above then my actions will be filled with success okay so we'll have some meditation I'm chanting so staying focused and seeing myself as light and the center of the forehead and keeping the eyes open the first lesson is I am a soul a being of light and the energy that makes the body work but I've forgotten this I began to think I was a body and thereby I would fall into all the traps of worry and concern and fear etc so who can I trust who will help to build my faith in myself and my resilience I need to feel such support and feel that I'm accepted and feel unconditional love and stay away from guilt shame fear anxiety worry and regret think of the divine as a notion of peace and the being of unconditional love and if I can chat to this soul friend and have faith in a being who will never hurt me and never judge me but only love me and the one who always sees me as a beautiful and powerful being of peace and then you can start to feel that it could be true and you could see yourself as more and more positive and powerful and this feeling of resilience grows and your belief in your inner strength develops and faith in yourself is rekindled I am a soul full of faith in myself and in my friend the divine ohm chanting you