Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Life as a paradox

Dada ('grandfather' in Urdu) told me that courage is built up first by being courageous and that we only trust ourselves through the act and practice of trusting – a real paradox. Life is a paradox so that we can learn to live without leading with intellectual, head sense alone. If life only had to make intellectual, head sense, we wouldn’t have any use for the heart or gut. Grim!

The Key: it is when the heart is in line with the gut is in line with the head that true alignment takes place and things come together in a way that makes sense.  Align head, heart and gut, and witness how things that seemed chaotic all of a sudden make sense on a different level and click into place.  This is chaos theory in action - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory.

Courage is not defined as the absence of fear, in fact courage needs fear in order to be present. Courage can only come forth when we do the very thing that sparked the fear and if we walk with the fear, go through the fear and do the very thing we fear. It is in that very moment that we become courageous.

Trust is the fruit of faith. Surrendering is faith in action. It is when we dare to fall backward into the arms of faith, that we begin to trust in the process. Go out there and do the very thing you are fearful of. Practice falling backward into the unknown. Trust will come and courage will get stronger.

I read an article about a man who was very successful in life and rich in every sense of the word.  He gave away his home to follow his faith. While I am not suggesting we go that far, it is a good demonstration of ‘trust’ and faith. Here is what he said regarding his experience:

'I began to find that when you really start to live your life on purpose and less focused on yourself, your own ego, and outcome, or on how things are going to show up, you begin to live your life from a very knowing place within you; that’s the only way I can describe it. You get all the help you need, all the assistance, all the guidance, the right people, finances; everything just starts to show up. I started to really trust in that.'

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