Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Partnerships

The tests that you go through on a daily basis are ones your soul has created to monitor your progress in completing the coursework you have selected. You may think these are random act of occurrence, however they are directly related to the experiences you require for your level of understanding. Checking that something is in one’s highest and best good when there is any question about the assignment makes sure you are indeed following the curriculum at hand and are not thrown off course by the seemingly random occurrences in your life.

We would like to discuss a little today about the so-called random events in your life. When you open yourself up to receiving new experiences and to sharing the venue of experience with others, you open yourself up also to taking on their lessons as well. When you are in a solitary path of experience, your most important lessons are ones of personal growth and understanding. When you agree on a conscious level to share your experiences with another, you allow the boundaries to merge and to accept responsibility as a mirror to help grow and heal in tandem with this partner. It is in sharing of insights and in bringing to light unhealed parts of the personalities that you frequently experience the most growth and understanding.

Now do not look at this as a restrictive time for personal growth. Quite the opposite. When you are able to see yourself reflected in the eyes of your partner, you frequently are able to see the gaps in your own personae that have been longing to be filled. We frequently choose for partners those who we feel best express the soul qualities that we are lacking and longing to express. By merging with another both physically and emotionally, we are trying on the experience and seeing if it feels right. As we become more in tune with this new vibration, we may feel that we have received all of the nourishment we require of this association and move on to other forms of experience, either in tandem or apart. In this way we become teachers to the others of our association in the journey of life.

Now all relationships are not necessarily based on the needs for healing the personality. Many higher dimensional experiences involve the mutual sharing and uplifting of the partners. It is one thing to shoulder your own burdens but it is even more powerful when you combine your efforts to address and offer insights to your partner. This sharing of emotional and psychological insights and awareness can be a key to opening a door of understanding for both parties. By allowing the uncensored, free flow of ideas and impressions between each other, there is a common vision that is forming that creates a platform for both to move higher into understanding.

In order to gain the most from our partnerships, it might be helpful to understand the dynamics involved. First, is there a balance of power that is being shared equally? Now this is not to say that all situations will be equal for at times one is more needy and at other times it will be the other. What we are inferring, is that both take turns in addressing the illusions in the life of the other and in helping them to see more clearly the options at hand. There is no imbalance of power that is perpetuated by one partner over the other. Both share the positions of givers and receivers of energy in a supportive, Loving way.

In the dynamics of relationships, there is always ones who are the teachers and those who are the students. If this continues to be lopsided, and not an alternated process, there will eventually be a day when the student receives all they can from the teacher and must move on to a new experience. If there is not a mutuality of exchange, it becomes an exercise of a parasitic nature that fails to fulfill the potential of support, and growth of each other.

For a partnership to be self-sustaining, there must be an energy exchange that derives from an influx beyond its borders that is brought together for mutual exploration rather than one feeding parasitically off the other. When one uses another for their substance exclusively, one fails to hold up their part of the bargain to bring their own energy into the process and soon the process will be exhausted. Be willing to act as a conduit for information, understanding and expression from beyond the borders of your relationship and to use this to fire the flames of inspiration between you and you will serve not only the growth of each other but elevate the relationship to a higher vehicle of Loving expression.

When you understand that relationships are lessons in Love being demonstrated in the schoolroom of life, you begin to realize the importance of mastering each Loving nuance of life. How can you best express Love to the partners in experience and help them to grow in Loving understanding as well? The most Loving experience may not always be what they want as directed by their ego but that which serves the higher purpose of their soul. True love comes from what is highest and best for all concerned, no matter what the personal consequences. The courage to stand up to your partner and reflect to them the truth of their actions is a brave and true but very Loving stance that may or may not be understood by the recipient, depending on their illusionary state.

Being willing to Lovingly hold the reflection until the other is willing to recognize themselves is a thankless but Loving service we provide each other in the Journey of life. Tough Love is seldom appreciated at the time, but in reflection can be a mighty bond when the other finally realized that you truly had their highest and best interests at heart. Are you willing to stand fast in Loving kindness and do what you know to be in your partner’s best interest? If not, perhaps this is a lesson for you in self awareness and insecurity of your own needs that are not being met in Loving ways.

As we said, we are all mirrors for our Loving partners and it is in the schoolroom of our relationships that we have the greatest lessons of experience. Do you wish to sign up for this graduate course in human relations or will you take the easier route of solitary experience with only your own council to explore? The choice is yours an in doing so you define the parameters of your experience.

I AM

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