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Enlightening articles by Guy Finley on a wide range of topics address practical life issues and deepen your spiritual understanding.
Short but powerful quotes by Guy Finley will inspire you throughout your day.
Heartfelt inner-life questions from people around the world, and Guy’s enlightening answers, will shed light on your own issues.
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The Life of Learning singers and instrumentalists perform beautiful music that will inspire and uplift you.
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Shop eCoursesHello Guy! I purchased your DVD collection of the Million Year Leap. Disc Two talks about life revelations and fearless living. In this segment, you mention stop, drop and endure. I have been practicing this for some time. One problem I have is when I am in the moment and practicing stopping, dropping and enduring, I'm often very quiet. I am still. I don't say anything. People, one in particular, find my quietness insulting. By not responding, they believe I am ignoring them. One says, "why don't you say anything?" And, "Are you hearing me?" I'm not sure how to address this. I have to be still to endure the conflict/stress. I have to be quiet to hear what my spirit might be revealing. How can I make people understand what I am trying to do??? I find if I respond to the conflict, I'm only creating distance between myself and the moment. How can I practice stop, drop and endure effectively, given these circumstances. Thank you kindly for any advice you may have! (Student correspondence 3/16/09)
Since I can't know the specifics of the moments to which you refer, it's difficult to answer your question...so I will make a few?suppositions. First, if you're in a conversation with someone, and something hurtful or rude is said to you, then the application of the "Stop, Drop, and Endure"?exercise?here is 100% appropriate, given that you haven't gone "silent" as a secret way of making the other person squirm. But, if you have taken the shock of the moment -- internalized it properly by becoming awake to the flood of hurt feelings, instead of allowing them to carry you away with them -- then you have no reason to hurry through and out of this state of quiet awareness.?
The "demand" on the part of the other that you respond (in some way to his inappropriate action) is his attempt to escape the pain of himself by goading you into a negative response that will justify his original comment or action. Stay inwardly still (watchful) until you can consciously respond without expressing the negative energy now stirred up in you. If done "properly" your response will not be on the same level of the comment that creates the situation.?
If, on the other hand, you are with friends (or at work!) then your work to silently endure some state needs to be mixed in with a dash of conscious acting...wherein you remain?vigilant?to your state but without causing unnecessary?discomfort?to those around you. Experiment with all things; do not fear "failing" when it comes to the work of increasing your awareness. There is nothing to be gained by the mind that measures its own activity.
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