TRAVAIL
What say you when tragedy and Travail occur in your life? How does it measure? Do you say to yourself: this is an event, or do you say: I deserve this bad thing, this difficult thing, because that is what I am made for? What is your belief concerning what is painful, and an ongoing challenge?
A certain amount of challenge is necessary to structure proper thought and response, and to develop compassion, but what of tenacity and its attachment to seeing only the negative aspects of any condition, and doing such through a personal lens? Do you believe that Life metes out to You, personally, more than your neighbor, for the mere fact that You are You, that for some set of facts in your karma, you deserve punishment, hardening, retribution, or high payment in exchange for existence?
What is your belief regarding the expansion and contraction of the fields that you influence and that influence you? Like the waves of the ocean being drawn by the moon, periods of peace and ease are pierced by periods of excitement, fear, challenge, and lull. Do you recognize these points of Light and regeneration, or do you merely draw breath, using the plateau as a place upon which you dread the next Travail?
If you laid unto a chart, the energetic expenditures of great joy and great sorrow, you would see that their expansive forces looked quite similar. With Time as a constant and horizontal rendering, and energy expended represented as points vertical across that line, you would see a graph that looks seismically like the rendering of Earth’s movements, the predictions for earthquakes and faults.
Upon reconsidering this, you might adopt the romantic notion that events you once considered polar opposites are more like polar pairs: birth and death/ love and loss/ acquisition and release/ great effort and great inability. You might see that by studying events scientifically, effort is effort, no matter how it is emotionally considered. But, oh, you say: an effort made in love leaves one feeling uplifted, while an effort made under the lash is all but breaking.
Yes. We acknowledge that this is true. But are these polarities true regarding every effort?
Was the traffic on the roadway put before you as a personal Travail? Is it your cross to bear? Do others have mortgages to pay? Health problems? Issues with their families? Trouble at work? How much of your efforts do you invest, unnecessarily, with personal angst? How much of your share of challenges do you morph into Travail?
A difficult thing is always made more difficult by your personal, emotional investment. It is easier to help your friends with their difficulties, is it not—all the while thinking that you are glad to help, and glad to be one step removed from their problem.
But: what if you could learn to be one step removed from your own problems? How much easier then, would it be to find a resolution? How much clearer your thoughts, how much more expedient your solutions, once personal angst has been removed.
We enter incarnation for a multitude of reasons and leave it with a multitude of resolutions. Staying small and tangled serves nothing but unhappiness. You will always know Travail. The wise will learn to know Travail for what it is.
Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil
Archives: August 10, 2014
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