{"id":3373,"date":"2012-07-24T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2024-01-11T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T18:29:00","slug":"how-can-i-better-handle-negativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/3373-how-can-i-better-handle-negativity","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Better Handle Negativity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question:<\/strong> \u00a0How Can I Better Handle Negativity?<\/p>\n

Answer:<\/strong> \u00a0In the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, we say \u201cOut of God comes all things\u201d which includes negativity or things we experience as pain and suffering. \u00a0We also say, \u201cGod loves all of Its creation\u201d so that\u2019s acknowledging responsibility for the creation and that God\u2019s response is loving, regardless of how the suffering has developed. \u00a0 In MSIA, we introduce the soul as our primary reference point. We are souls having a human experience. So in the human experience there\u2019s an aspect that we could consider \u00a0as negative.<\/p>\n

What we call positive we relate to in ways that are beautiful, loving, peaceful, healthy, and happy. Usually the positive parts are those that people realize they like and want. \u00a0Nobody truly wants the negativity, and that reflects the intelligence of who we are. \u00a0We prefer the positive experiences.<\/p>\n

I look at our soul as the one who is entirely intelligent, full of wisdom and resolution. \u00a0This is a movement of the soul that God created as a way to resolve the negativity such that it\u2019s of no more interest. \u00a0We look to clear the negativity or karma<\/a> so that it is resolved back into the nothingness from which it came. \u00a0We do this by loving it all and placing our concerns into the Light for the highest good.<\/p>\n

The simplicity of MSIA is that once we declare our loyalty to our positive nature, our true self<\/a>, then our willingness to move into the truth of who we are and our willingness to let go of the false nature, is at work. \u00a0We stop choosing what does not work and find the blessing. \u00a0We choose the blessings that are present and can become manifest. \u00a0 We stop what does not serve who we are as a soul. \u00a0We become less attached to all things in the material world, and we move into our spiritual home which is our divine nature.<\/p>\n

The challenge is often in the doing. \u00a0Doing the blessing may appear to be futile. \u00a0So there is another aspect to what we can do and that\u2019s to let the One who can do it, do it for us. \u00a0Letting go and letting God is a process of surrender and doing our best to move into the primary aspect of our soul and that\u2019s simple \u2013 God is love. \u00a0We do the love, and if we don\u2019t know how to do the love, then we let go, and let the love of God do the love. \u00a0The most difficult moment may be when we choose to stop what we\u2019re doing that doesn\u2019t love. \u00a0It can be challenging to stop the part of us that has againstness even though we may experience pain and suffering. \u00a0So remember to ask for the Light and choose into your loving.<\/p>\n

Let the loving flow. \u00a0What\u2019s interesting about that is if you hate someone or something and you\u2019re willing to let that negativity go, even if you think there is no way possible you could love that pain or suffering, then the love of God can come forward. It\u2019s often humbling because we start seeing that the love was there all along, even when we were denying it, and we realize that God is the one who loves all. Jesus said, \u201cWhen you\u2019ve done it unto them the least of them, my brethren, you\u2019ve done it unto me\u201d [Matthew 25:40].<\/p>\n

So the love of Christ is also that love. \u00a0The love of Christ is an anointing of God that can become more personal because it\u2019s how the love of God translates into the human experience. \u00a0Often people find that eternally loving presence in a moment when they\u2019re desperate, a moment where it seems nothing is working. \u00a0Often the perception is, \u201cMy life isn\u2019t worth anything. \u00a0Take me, Lord, put me out of my misery.\u201d \u00a0 That\u2019s often the moment when we are the most open to the mercy of God and the Lord\u2019s amazing grace.<\/p>\n

The conditions in this world are designed perfectly to wake you up and inspire you toward unconditional love. \u00a0That truth is the living truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and there is help from God. That help may even initially be something disturbing or painful as a way to lead us into “greener pastures”. \u00a0The help from God becomes what is beautiful and heaven sent.<\/p>\n

If you interpret an experience as something like, \u201cI\u2019m a bad person. \u00a0I\u2019m wrong. \u00a0I\u2019m suffering because God doesn\u2019t like me,\u201d then you\u2019re off. You have a misunderstanding or misinterpretation of what\u2019s going on. \u00a0If you resist your learning, it won\u2019t work. \u00a0Judging your experience won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

We often suffer because we choose to look at our life and decide it shouldn\u2019t be the way it is. \u00a0So we feel upset. \u00a0However, there\u2019s something about every single condition that has value including whatever pain or suffering you may experience. \u00a0 In MSIA, we have a guideline to use everything for our upliftment, learning and growth. \u00a0That means loving it all.<\/p>\n

Remember, \u201cOut of God come all things.\u201d \u00a0Trust God, and trust that in each experience there\u2019s something valuable in what you need to experience, so you can learn what you need to learn to fulfill the promise of your soul.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

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Question: \u00a0How Can I Better Handle Negativity? Answer: \u00a0In the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, we say \u201cOut of God comes all things\u201d which includes negativity or things we experience as pain and suffering. \u00a0We also say, \u201cGod loves all of Its creation\u201d so that\u2019s acknowledging responsibility for the creation and that God\u2019s response is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":102583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,257,262],"tags":[3,90,109],"class_list":["post-3373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-mortons-current-story","category-ndh-archives","category-traveler-q-a","tag-blessing","tag-john-morton","tag-soul-awareness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}