The Power of Solutions

For some of us, it's difficult to look beneath the surface of our problems and try to understand their origins. Even though many of us seldom give much thought to it, but when you think about it all problems come from somewhere. Someone is responsible for their existence. And regardless to whether we are struggling with burgeoning, out-of-control debts or crying over losing our jobs, we believe someone other than us is responsible for them.

A good way to illustrate the way we feel about our problems is to compare them to burglars. Problems are like burglars, they sneak into our minds whenever we are away from home. In this case, home is our mind focusing on achieving enlightenment.

If we take our focus off enlightenment, we leave ourselves vulnerable to having burglars entering our consciousness and stealing our thoughts.They take whatever they can without any consideration for the pain and suffering they're creating in our lives. And after our possessions, the beliefs we are clinging to, are gone, we panic. That's when we begin searching for someone to help us replace our lost beliefs.

During our search for the stolen beliefs, we believe we are searching for enlightenment. We want to replace the emptiness created by the loss of income, status in our community, and embarrassment with similar beliefs. In other words, we want to acquire our lost beliefs and redefine them as something else.

Nevertheless, if we took the time to careful examine the value of the possessions (beliefs) missing from our lives, we would know our love for them was responsible for the pain and suffering in our lives. It is our attachment to our possessions (beliefs) -- people, money, power, status, and so forth -- that keeps us inextricably tied to the problems in our lives.

Meanwhile, the problems we love and despise are not only valueless, but illusions. They exist in reality based on the power, or lack thereof, we empower them with. Most of our problems are not problems at all. They are expressions of our beliefs and actions. We birth them simply by thinking. In other words, we think our problems into our lives. This means our problems can never be greater that us because we created them.

Similarly, once we recognize we are the creators of our problems, then we clearly know we also are responsible for the solutions. By recognizing this simple act of inner power, it empowers us to approach our problems differently. It's much easier to face something we know we created by our actions. Now we're able to clearly see that the fears and doubts are lessened significantly.

For most of us, conditioned to live as victims for so long, it's natural to assign blame to others for the problems in our lives. We frequently believe the banks are responsible for us borrowing their money to purchase our homes, automobiles, boats, and so forth. This type of thinking absolves us from any responsibility in the transaction. Even though, we knew the contracts were shaky and weighted in favor of the banks.

Whenever we want to acquire some possessions, we seldom believe we might lose them later on due to reduction in income, illness or some other changes in our lives. Unfortunately, whenever something unforeseen happens that jeopardizes our possessions, we are thrown into deep depression and grief over it.

For us to overcome the personal setbacks affecting millions of us today, we must first reclaim our power over the situations we currently face. To do this, we must first recognize that no matter how difficult our problems might seem to us today, we have the power to overcome them.

We must also free ourselves from rationalizing about how our problems are responsible for our powerlessness, which cause us to believe we are victims in this world. We are not victims, because we know we are responsible for believing we are victims. And we know this is based on our thinking, which is caused by our beliefs.

For us to acquire power, we must change our beliefs. To do this, we must be willing to accept responsibility for what's currently happening in our lives, and know we have the power to change whatever that is.

In chapter nine in the book Seeds from the Ashes, the discussion on power is very clear:

"You and your thoughts are one, but you are greater than your thoughts... On the road to empowerment you clearly know that the power that created the universe is greater than the power that created the atomic bomb. Yet the power to create is present in both situations. The power to create anything comes from thoughts like the thoughts you have in your mind. This power is not is not a stranger, or an alien, or a god separate from you. This power is in your mind."

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