I was just pondering our experiences. With the recent death of Whitney Houston and thinking about her experiences, was she a victim of her experiences? How many of us would have loved to have had her experiences? A lot of the good experiences that we have throughout our life time, we embrace those and cherish those and sometimes live in the past and wish we can live those experiences again. Then we have bad experiences. When we push those experiences away, or blame others for our experiences. So, say we had an experience of abuse as a child, or we experience something that caused Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or something along those lines. What happens in our body, when we push those experiences away, or blame others for the experience that we had, is we become a victim of our experiences.
We never become a victim of our experiences that we label as good. Those we will embrace and we accept as they are and they become a part of us. But those experiences that we label as bad, we tend to push away. As soon as we push that experience away, we become a victim of it. We must accept all of our experiences in order to connect with who we really are. It’s easier said than done, I understand that, because I’ve had experiences where I had to personally change my beliefs toward. But once I changed my beliefs, and embraced those experiences as a part of me, and thanked those experiences, I was no longer a victim of my experiences. For example, I’ve experienced rape, verbal abuse, emotional abuse and physical abuse at different points in my life and I was well on the path of being the victim.
For many years I was the victim and did not embrace my experiences as a part of me, as part of who I am and part of what the Universe was trying to show me. I was the victim of those experiences. But I began to thank ALL of my experiences. Of course I thanked the experiences that I labeled as good, that was easy. But those experiences that we label as bad, we will push away. Again, as soon as we label those experiences as bad and push away, we are now a victim of that experience. So instead of pushing those away, start to analyze your beliefs toward them. Are you labeling an experience as bad? Why are you labeling it as bad? Because someone told you that it was bad? So we can begin to rise above our experiences. That is just what they are, experiences. Avoid labeling that experience as good and that other experience as bad. They are all our human experiences, and that is why we come to this physical realm is to experience and have as many different contrasting experiences as we can. That what being a Human Being is all about. The experience of being Human.
