The body is awash in chemicals that affect your emotions and your experiences. How can two people be so different? It is far more than thoughts and experiences … it is also the makeup of the chemical soup coursing through the veins. Do not be so quick to blame another when they make choices different than yours. Look at your own actions and see how they change as the body changes. How to overcome these differences? Find and experience the state of being beyond the body. Yes, it is possible to do so. It requires sitting quietly at intervals and focusing on the breath. Be still and know the “I am” aspect of you before and beyond the body. Yes, the body will still be in the chair, but the changeless aspect of you will present itself. Herein lies the key to peace and peaceful relationships.
You are so very loved.
I know it is always best to be sorry for hasty judgements… and judgements of any kind upon another. We never know the whole story. We never know what is really the matter of the “bottom line” for someone else. All too often we don’t recognize the importance of our own bottom line. Yet the judgements arrive. Where did we learn to do this? What was incorrect about the assumptions we made? Why didn’t/don’t we recognize our assumptions before we open our minds and mouths to them?
It’s part of our focus system! Focus. Hummmm… Focus on what? Focus
This message is very helpful to me, Suzanne and Sanaya. My mother had alcoholism. My 19-year-old son died almost 5 years ago due to an accidental overdose of a plant called Kratom. They both experienced pleasurable feelings from opioids that caused them to want more. I do not have that experience (thankfully). We all have different chemical makeups, molecular structures, and affinities. It helps me to accept and understand things this way – that we can be so vulnerable, fragile and different in our human bodies, but as Sanaya says, there is in us all a changeless aspect that isn’t affected by the human frailities. I can understand better my son, Marco, and my mother, for their human vulnerability and not feel so hurt, sad, and mad that they succumbed to substances. I’ll always feel so very, very sad that Marco left the world too soon, but I now have some helpful ways to regard his leaving thanks to this message and to so much of what you, Suzanne, and Sanaya have communicated to me and many others. Thank you so very much.