Relationships,
Our Greatest Teachers
Why are relationships our
greatest teachers? Every relationship
you are experiencing in your life has meaning.
Each has a specific purpose as your teacher if you allow them. Family, friends, co-workers, spouses and
children have a message for you, learning for you about you.
These individuals you are in
relationship with are not necessarily here to teach you what they know and
think you need to know, but rather they are in your life as a mirror of your
own thoughts, feelings and beliefs. They
provide you a space to learn about yourself through their presence in your life
and how you interact and react to them.
You learn most from these individuals by how you feel about this person
and about yourself while in this person’s presence.
The relationships in your
life that cause the greatest turmoil, frustration and anxiety will teach you
the most about yourself if you will allow them.
Pay attention to those people in your life that perturb you the
most. Be open to dig deeper to the
traits about them that create anxiety, frustration or feelings of lack, within you.
Seeking Love
Imagine what your life would
look like if all of your relationships had a foundation of harmony and
love? Where there was never a need to
defend or prove you to anyone? What if
you had no ill will toward any persons, and understood that all your
relationships have a spiritual purpose in your life, the negative as well as
the positive?
We go through our young lives
looking for love, approval and acceptance from our parents as young children
and then turn to friends or social groups as teenagers looking for that love
and acceptance from friends and abandoning our families sometimes through
rebellion. “I don’t need you,” attitude.
“I’ll show you.” Then we marry someone looking to fulfill that emptiness
or need to be loved. However our subconscious mind assists us in choosing
someone who triggers our most core issues and may mirror the parent we had the
most issues with growing up. This is so
that we can resolve any unfinished business we have with that parent. When relationships or the lack thereof get
really uncomfortable, and we have had at it many times throughout our life, we
may learn to seek for that love eventually from a greater Source and discover
the Divine from within.
In order to experience more harmony in all
your relationships we take a look at the most important relationship of all,
and that is the one with yourself. As
you become more aware of why you do what you do, you will be able to forgive
yourself and create a life free of inner conflict, filled with love and
compassion.
