{"id":110328,"date":"2021-01-29T12:15:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=110328"},"modified":"2021-01-29T13:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:42:40","slug":"rising-above-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/110328-rising-above-failure","title":{"rendered":"Rising Above Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many times we don’t know how to handle negativity after we enter into it.\u00a0 Since it is important that we learn this, God in His infinite wisdom has given us what I refer to as the ‘loyal forces of the opposition’. Their job is to make sure we do our job.<\/em> – John-Roger <\/p>\n

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This article by John-Roger was first published in the Movement Newspaper, August 1985.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many times we don’t know how to handle negativity after we enter into it.\u00a0 Since it is important that we learn this, God in His infinite wisdom has given us what I refer to as the “loyal forces of the opposition.”\u00a0 Their job is to make sure we do our job.\u00a0 They are on the job 24 hours a day, eight days a week.\u00a0 This means that while you are awake, it is valuable to be present and aware.\u00a0 Rather than simply moving your body from place to place (an amoeba can do that), consciously give yourself direction.\u00a0 Too often you restrict yourselves because you are concerned about failure. . .<\/p>\n

“What if I fail?”<\/p>\n

It’s okay to fail.\u00a0 That doesn’t mean you are a failure.\u00a0 Thomas Edison made almost a thousand attempts at the light bulb before he had one success.\u00a0 He would have been able to tell you many more ways that the light bulb wouldn’t work than it did, and many people considered him a failure.\u00a0 Often we will say to ourselves, “I’m a failure,” and have no idea what that represents.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at the word failure in the dichotomy of what the letters mean.\u00a0 Usually when we are experiencing failure, one of the first things that takes place is fear<\/em>.\u00a0 Something deep inside of us locks onto an illusion that cannot be discerned clearly, and we give it part of our creative strength.\u00a0 Then we stand back and become concerned about our ability to handle it.\u00a0 Fear, by definition, is worrying about the unknown.\u00a0 When we have knowledge of what is facing us, we may not like it, but we can handle it.<\/p>\n

Look back over the times in your life when you thought, “Oh my God, how will I ever get through this?\u00a0 I’ll never make it.”\u00a0 Your being here now answers that in one of a number of ways: Either you lied to yourself, or you thought you knew what was going on and you didn’t, or some other reason which you can add.\u00a0 If an unknown quality is present and fear is tied in with it, it is rather conceited to say that you know the reasons that fear and failure are coming your way when you don’t.\u00a0 If you don’t know what is there, it’s much wiser to say, “I don’t know what’s there, but that doesn’t mean I can’t handle it when I get there.”<\/p>\n

The second letter in the word failure, a<\/em>, represents alienation<\/em>.\u00a0 This is when we feel separated from that thing we’re going toward.\u00a0 We feel we’re not going to get it and inside we say, “I’m not sure, I’m uncertain.”\u00a0 When we become alienated deep within ourselves, we shut ourselves off from our own inner guidance.\u00a0 This guidance is the Divine Light, the state of beingness that stops the alienation and lets us become one with our own Beloved, and thus walk in self-realization.<\/p>\n

After we have become alienated, we often create an illusion<\/em> to justify it; then we become involved in the illusion.\u00a0 Part of the illusion is to say, “It was their fault, they did it to me.”\u00a0 Then we live the illusion of getting even with them.\u00a0 At this point we’re on our way toward failure.<\/p>\n

About the time the illusion doesn’t seem to be holding, we come to the l<\/em> part of the word and that’s the lie<\/em>.\u00a0 You lie to yourself or you lie to other people, and that dishonesty forfeits divine aid.\u00a0 The most difficult thing about lying is that you’re not sure if the other person believes it or not.<\/p>\n

Then comes the u<\/em> for uncertainty<\/em>, and you’re not sure if you can work in the level of that lie and illusion.\u00a0 Part of you says, “Which way do I turn?”\u00a0 The lie comes home to roost; in that illusion, you are separated and it produces fear.<\/p>\n

After the uncertainty comes the r<\/em> for resisting<\/em> and rebelling<\/em>.\u00a0 “No one is going to show me how to do it.\u00a0 I don’t care if you have the right way.\u00a0 I would just as soon fail.”\u00a0 Even in the eleventh hour, there is a chance for every person to change their direction and go from the resistance to the rebound<\/em> where you say, “My God, I’ve been wrong, I’ve made a mistake.”\u00a0 At this point, you turn from resistance and embrace acceptance and just let it flow.<\/p>\n

By the time you come to the end of the word failure, usually you know within you that you’ve already reached it and you feel empty<\/em>.\u00a0 Within you say, “There is nothing here.\u00a0 I could have changed direction so many times, but I resisted.”\u00a0 There’s a funny thing about failure, even in the twelfth hour you have a chance.\u00a0 The final e<\/em> becomes eternity<\/em> and you get infinite opportunities throughout eternity.\u00a0 Many people call it reincarnation, but from a high enough level of consciousness you can see another perspective.\u00a0 You begin to use your failures as negative feedback, which is a very positive way to live.\u00a0 Then you no longer struggle with this idea of fear.\u00a0 You can’t be alienated, because you’re walking within a oneness.\u00a0 You will come to know the illusion and realize that there is nothing terrible about an illusion.\u00a0 It’s when you don’t know it that you’re caught short, and you try to protect it.<\/p>\n

Do you know that every time failure comes and sits on your doorstep, success comes right along behind it because we are success motivated organisms.\u00a0 We are goal seekers and goal strivers, and this means that we are going to get there.\u00a0 If it were easy, you would have already done it.\u00a0 It’s a challenge.\u00a0 One of the biggest challenges that you’re going to meet will be to live your life \u2013 regardless.\u00a0 I suggest you do what it takes to transcend fear, because the truth is that God never gives you something you can’t handle \u2013 in loving.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

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