Accepting Challenges

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Accepting Challenges

The universe loves us and provides everything for us to evolve, and to help others in their evolution. Let us note that this kind of help is the essence of true love. Our joy and fulfillment are by-products of our evolutionary development, so it is safe to say that the universe provides these blessings as well – for all those who are willing to accept them. Acceptance is the key. Unless we accept our growth and everything it involves, we won’t experience the universal abundance.

At the surface, challenges often look as limitations of our growth and our resource supply. But challenges should motivate us to go beyond those seeming shortages to the unlimited potential which belongs to us. As we raise our consciousness, this fact becomes more and more clear to us. At some point, we will start taking every challenge as a blessing in disguise.

There are three typical reactions to challenges:

- some people ignore them;
- some people resist them;
- some people accept them.

As we look at these reactions, let us remember that each one of us, with no exceptions, displays all of them at different times of our lives. The purpose of this message is not to point fingers at presumed “others”, but to encourage you to become aware of your dominant mental patterns.

To ignore challenges is the worst possible attitude. Those who display it, had probably become mentally dull and rigid. They don’t want to think much about what is going on. They are far from being observant, flexible, and creative. They live with an assumption that things will stay the same, more or less, so there is no need to prepare for changes.

People who ignore challenges as they come to them, suffer the worst. Does it mean that the universe is hostile and unjust towards them? No. But pain is the only way the universe makes itself heard.

Abstaining from thinking weakens us and makes us victims of circumstances.

Again, there are those people who are aware of challenges they are facing – but they resist those challenges. Basically, they are doing it because they believe that challenges are produced by some evil powers in order to harm them. They wish to get back to a condition previous to an appearance of challenges. They often dream about “good old days” and feel that something is being lost.

Those people are mostly good and sincere, and their intentions are understandable. However, they don’t really grasp the way the universe works. Their attitude doesn’t give them an accurate understanding of what is going on, and doesn’t provide workable solutions. Those who resist challenges will sooner or later have to admit their failure in dealing with them. This will weaken them and make them even more pessimistic about the world’s condition.

However, their pessimism is self-inflicted. If they would realize that unhappy experiences resulted from their mistaken notions, they would be able to create for themselves a much better reality. To begin with, they need to recognize that there is no so-called evil to put the blame on. Again, all the challenges are inherently good, and are meant for good.

Let us accept our challenges with an open heart and mind!

To accept challenges doesn’t mean to resign, to let go of our efforts, or to “submit to our fate”. Unless challenges stimulate us to creative thinking and actions, it is pointless to say that we’ve accepted them.

When challenges come, we often look for changes. We want to change our environment and the people around us. But since challenges are ours, it means that we ourselves have to change first. This is why they came to us – to be instruments of our personal development. Having this in mind, we won’t be afraid of challenges or resentful towards them.