What To Believe When You Come Undone

So much of the typical human belief system is actually in direct opposition to the concepts of spiritual law. Let’s take the idiom “Life is too short,” for example. This saying is used to essentially suggest or convince oneself or another that we don’t live long…so just live for the now and just do what’s desirable regardless of the consequences. Well, wrong!

The soul’s journey is quite a long one. We reincarnate through many centuries of lifetimes, until our souls have completely evolved, returning to each new life with lessons to learn based on beliefs, karma and decisions made in our prior lives.

For example, a slave master born might return in his next life as a slave, to face his karma and endure what it’s like to be treated as such, and ultimately understand why it’s wrong. So, in reality, life is ‘too long.’ Every action has a reaction – an energetic effect. Thus, we need to be cognizant and conscientious of all that we say and do in this life, and not just engage or divulge in whatever we please, because of a physically limited life span.

That same theory of misunderstandings and contradictions between spiritual concepts and human beliefs, more detrimentally applies to life struggles and emotional well-being. How many times have you prematurely mourned a relationship…then wound up reuniting with your partner? Or maybe you lost your favorite job and felt hopelessly valueless and depleted, foreseeing eternal darkness, only to find your dream job shortly after? Moments, days, weeks, months, years, where you either take on a defeatist attitude, and suffer, or become a control freak and try to take matters into your own hands. Thinking you are, but not trusting that you are not, the wizard behind the curtain?

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths ~ Charles H. Spurgeon

In most cases, when one comes undone, human thinking creates feelings of being victimized, unworthy, hopeless, or destitute. All a perfect breeding ground for despair. However, the spiritual belief that takes the sting out of the burn is trust. Trust that you’re here for what your soul needs, not for what your ego wants. Trust that everything happens for unsuspected reasons, that you ultimately benefit from. And that there’s a higher power overseeing your journey, guiding you through the lessons you need to learn as part of your soul’s evolution. Trust that whatever just happened is meant to help, not hurt you.

So, when undesirable events occur for unforeseeable reasons, think to yourself: I’m okay, and I trust that this is happening for a reason. I may not understand it right now, but I will eventually live in the immediate future.

While you let this sink in, envision all of the people who were supposed to be in the Twin Towers, or on Flight 93 from Boston Logan Airport to Los Angeles International Airport, on the morning of September 11, 2001. My uncle was one of them.

He had an 8:30AM meeting in Tower II, but was notified shortly before that the meeting had been moved to 11:30AM. He was already en route and less than happy about the time change, as it interfered with another important meeting and meant he’d have to kill three hours in the city. He cursed and aggravated himself for a good portion of the morning, without once thinking, trusting, or believing that everything happens for a reason and that his life would later still be in tact because of it.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float ~ Alan W. Watts

There were many other instances where people were spared due to divine intervention. Like the honeymooners who were on standby, but weren’t called and didn’t make the flight. They missed their entire honeymoon, but lived to tell their tale. This is the same divine intervention that will snatch you out of a job that you’re destroying your sanity in, instead of making a difference every day, because you are grossly underappreciated or merely miserable.

Ultimately, what to believe when you come undone is that sometimes the best thing that can happen to you is to not get exactly what you want. Trust that not getting what you want, or keeping what you had, doesn’t make you unworthy or a victim. Quite the contrary, your soul always has your back.

So, when things don’t pan out as expected, it’s merely a blessing in disguise. A high power is removing you from a situation that is not in your spiritual best interest and highest good, and is instead propelling you forward to experience something that is.