Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Sit fortis !

I thought a lot about abuse these last few days ... Its one of the worst illnesses that can affect a relationship - with another person   And not only   Sometimes we abuse our own body (alcohol, drugs, medication) or our own mind (negativity, hate, guilt) and maybe the most often of all, we abuse our own hearts ( think yearning or love for things or people that don t deserve our heart ache)
And than, we may encounter abuse from another person   Or worse, and I say worse as we each have a duty to be good , we can become the abuser ....
The most important relationship we re ever going to have is the relatioship with ourselves    And from  it, everything elses springs, and the quality of anything we give or do in our existence is a reflection of our relatioship with ourselves    Each of us is a trinity , and a holy and unique one   We re the body, and the heart, and the mind   All in one, and we can t be at peace and completely happy unless we came to love and accept what we are    We need to accept our bodies   We only get one   We can choose to love it, take care of it , treat it as the temple of our heart and mind    Some people never do   They continuously complain about it, compare themselves to other bodies, or let themselves get phisically ill as a result of self neglect  
As Buddha said, we have a duty of care :   To keep the body in good health is a duty... Otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear
We need to make piece with our own mind  We ussually achieve this by looking inside ourselves, rather than at others    Our mind is the most powerful weapon we ever have    The mind sets everything in motion, the mind can help heal an injured body and the mind can help heal our broken heart  The sad reality is that most people follow a trend , or the crowd , when it comes to habitts , when it comes to indeed anything out there   So they forget they have their own mind , they forget to use it and so become useful objects in the hands of another opportunistic mind ... Its so much easier
to follow bad habitts than sticking to your own , even when you know deep down you re right ....
Forgetting that " it s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society "   And so
we talk too much , we gossip to no use, we listen way less than enough, we judge on appearances, we follow fake models and so on ....


If Deepak Chopra is right, "The way you think, the way you behave , the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years"   Can you afford he s right and you re not doing anything about yourself ?




And finally, but not the least, we need to make piece with our heart   Surrender your heart to good feelings   Love yourself and forgive yourself    One main trait of abusers is the lack of empathy .  
They are focussed on themseves, ussualy unhappy with their own person, either on a narcissistic level ( they adore their own body but deep down they re never happy with it, chasing phisical perfection 
that does not exist) or in their mind  - will abuse you emotionally to prove you their superiority   
I m a believer of mind over heart but I do aknowledge the immense power that love has over people  
Because the only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart   
The heart ussualy needs more time to accept what the mind knows already and thats the situation, and thank God for this, for many of us.   If that wasn t the case, it would be way less compassion and support out there, and we well know we could use a lot more of them    

Either you re the abused or the abuser , the peace was lost somewhere   The power to restore it lies within ourselves   The process of healing takes time   But it starts with the realisation of the fact that abuse is taking place   Its easy to say: refuse to be a victim    There are endless scenarios and as I once said, each carries his own cross    Some are happy to carry it, for personal reasons   
I experienced abuse myself   I like to think I left those days behind me but I wonder sometimes   I may come across sometimes as agressive   Sometimes intimidating    Because sometimes, my abused 
patience turns to fury, as T Fuller would say     I argue that is not aggresion      Is the fact that I faced my fears I , have no fear and people can " smell" that   Hence they get intimidated    There s nothing I resent more than lies, intimidation and rudeness    I like to think I stand against them   Some people that don t stand for what I stand for may find that intimidating    
  
Be always brave ! 
peace out !! 

   

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