Your Conscious, Friendly Mind – Day 10

If we are truly conscious, we pray for those around us who are negative rather than condemning them. We bless them rather than obsessing on a desire for revenge, or getting stuck in any wound we feel they caused us. We uplift ourselves, we uplift them, we uplift the world with our sincere prayers for their healing and our own, whatever wrong we may feel has been done to us.

This is a very important spiritual practice because, in fact, no wrong has been done to us. We have simply paid an unpleasant karmic debt and we have been offered a spiritual opportunity in the process. Whenever we offer our human suffering to God and find the blessing in it, we have moved along in our spiritual journey. We are one step closer to union with God and we have brought the world one step closer to that day when others will do the same.

1.      Whenever you feel injured or wounded by another and you find yourself brooding over how wronged you feel and their fault in the matter, turn your mind to prayer. See yourself, the other person, and the situation held in a field of Divine light. See the light flowing into your heart and mind, into their heart and mind, to resolve the situation in Divine time. Ask God to illuminate the mind and heart of everyone involved, to lead you all to the highest ground possible from which to view the situation. Pray for the strength and wisdom to truly accept the other person as they are, and to hold them in a heart of compassion. Ask if there is anything you can do to heal the situation. If there is, do it with detachment, without expectation, releasing the outcome to God.