It’s simple enough, isn’t it? So much can be accomplished through friendship. So much damage is done through conflict. Yet so many try to get what they want from others with vinegar… so few with honey.
Think about it. There are those who are reliably polite and kind. Then there are those that consistently stir hard feelings. Of those, whom do you feel naturally inclined to help? And for whom do you feel like you are the one who always has to ‘take the high road’, even though your inner child’s first response may be the opposite. Which of those people get the most from you?
Interestingly enough, the vinegar type of behavior seems to come about more readily when things really matter or when money is involved. Usually immediately, and certainly long term, honey will get you better results. So why is it that vinegar is so prevalent in world… especially when it seems to really matter!? Wouldn’t you think that when it really mattered, people would behave the most wisely, not the least?!
The answer is quite simple… weakness. It is easy to put on a honey facade when everything is fine and minimal inner strength is required.
Everyone would do well to ask themselves how they behave during more challenging times. Remarkably, it is not only individuals in our daily lives but also our world leaders who behave from such emotional and psychological weakness. Wars are fought over such weaknesses. Unbelievable really… isn’t it?
I bring this up in hopes of inspiring a better way. Yes the angry inner child is there. Yes, it is not healthy to stuff your feelings away. But it is even more life damaging to act out the vinegar. There is such a thing as working with your inner emotions in a constructive manner. Finding that way and using it… perhaps that is what being a mature adult is all about.
This simple lesson is a major component to the art of manifesting. The light of awareness heals. By holding this up to the light of awareness, may we progress as the family of humanity.
Beautiful and such a inner exploration experience.
Fatigue underlies weakness for me.
For that reason the only way to deeply rest in this time seems meditation and the deeper rest one finds at Mount Soma.
Thank You Brahmarshi for dedicating your life and resources towards making this available to the world.
In a Somatic Experiencing session last week I had the vision of one of those happy, tube guys on the street filled with air, and there he is in your picture!!!! Thank you. I feel connected, and it is sweet.
I wish all the readers and commenters here a Very Merry Christmas, along with my heartfelt gratitude to brahmarshi for your wise words and loving guidance, which are always such amazing gifts. You all make my heart sing and deeply enrich my life.
Inspiring and enlightening! Much appreciated guidance. Thank you yet again Brahmarshi.
Such perfect timing. Thank you for this beautiful opportunity for exploration. I too believe that exhaustion underlies my weakness. Most of the time I’m too busy to feel how tired I am until I snap and become vinegary.
It is true that fatigue underlies weakness. Even enlightenment is really just a matter of refreshing fatigued aspects of the greater physiology. Proper meditation, by giving deep rest to profound levels of the physiology, brings enlightenment.
Beautiful
Beautiful.