{"id":1796,"date":"2013-03-22T09:18:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2013-03-22T09:18:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:18:30","slug":"turning-life-around-with-two-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/2013\/03\/turning-life-around-with-two-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Life Around With Two Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

We seem to live in a society of scarcity, lack, and limitation.\u00a0 You can tell within two minutes of conversation how someone sees the world.\u00a0 Ask them, \u201cHow do you see the world? How do see yourself? How are you being in the world?\u201d. 90% of all interaction is non-physical, we get most of our information from no words at all, we are listening to tone, sounds, and placing meaning on things so fast based on experiences that we have had.\u00a0 For example, someone in your life is not feeling good at that moment, since we don\u2019t want them to not feel bad we try\u00a0 to put meaning on where they are at, we do this to comfort them, but what they may be searching for is simple, \u201cI understand\u201d. Those two words meet the person right where they are existing and could help them get out their funk.\u00a0 I have noticed in my growth that when someone offers me information on their life, like not feeling well, not doing good, lost a job, etc\u2026that it is really just calling\u00a0 for love.<\/p>\n

I dialogued recently with Mr. Gary Renard ACIM teacher and best selling author, he suggested that people are calling out for love or expressing love.\u00a0 He also added that, \u201cexpressing love is easy, but when someone is calling out for love that is when we must see love in them\u201d.\u00a0 The call can come with someone venting to you or at you, someone not feeling well, someone judging another, or you doing the same.\u00a0\u00a0 Most people really just want to call out where they are and not feel judged, and then on the other end hear, \u201cI understand\u201d.\u00a0 Those two words can release anyone from the story and have them begin to pick themselves up.\u00a0 If they come to us, and we tell them how they should be, or they shouldn\u2019t be the way they are, ask yourself,\u201dHow would that feel for you?\u201d\u00a0 We all yearn for trust, honesty, and authenticity, but those can\u2019t be achieved by changing someone, by having them change, when\u00a0 frankly they don\u2019t at that moment. Sometimes people come to us, just to be heard and listened.<\/p>\n

As always, don\u2019t read this and trust the writer blindly, practice this and see for yourself.\u00a0 Let a friend, stranger, family member vent, get angry, frustrated, and know that it is a call for love, not a time to change them, that call begins with understanding, simply, \u201cI understand\u201d.<\/p>\n

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