Blessings Flow Down

Perhaps you have experienced moments in your life when, despite doing all the “right” spiritual work, the results still do not manifest. Why is this? Is it because we do not deserve them? Or perhaps we have not done quite enough to earn them? These are questions we have all asked at one time or another, and the answer is simple. Quite often we have earned the blessings, but they cannot flow into our life simply because we have left a barrier between ourselves and those blessings. This barrier is called ego.

Allow me to explain. Just as water flows to the lowest level, so too, blessings flow to the lowest level. This means that when our ego is elevated, we are in a different place spiritually than our blessings, and, therefore, they cannot permeate our lives.

Now, let’s discuss this word “ego” for a moment because we use it all the time but we do not always know what it means. Ego means we think we are better than someone. It means, therefore, we can become angry or annoyed at this person and treat him or her poorly. It means, therefore, we can be jealous when someone has more than we do, and we can talk badly about them and wish them ill. It means we can dismiss people we deem insignificant and unworthy of our time or love. These are all the tell-tale signs of ego.

Ego is what enables us to treat another human being without respect and human dignity.

This is why we want to be involved in a constant process of diminishing our ego. We can work day and night to reveal Light and blessings through our sharing and work, but in order for Light to flow from above down into our lives (i.e., prosperity, clarity, healing, and peace), we must lower ourselves and treat everyone with care and decency.

Every day when we awake, the question we want to ask of ourselves is, “What will I do today to enable my ego to be diminished?” When this is a real priority, the blessings that are ready to come will come. There is no doubt about it.

I feel compelled to address this now because it pains me to think how often we sabotage ourselves. We work so hard to awaken blessings only to block them from entering our lives because of our silly ego.

This week, focus on how you treat people. Notice when you are being dismissive, or mean, or jealous. Work on being kinder and more considerate and offering every single person that crosses your path a modicum of human dignity. But please do not do this because it’s “the spiritual thing to do” or to be “a good person.” Do it because you know in your heart that it will remove the barrier between you and the blessings you have created.

Grab the Opportunity

We have been through so many incarnations and our soul has experienced such great trouble just to be where we are today. Grab the opportunity!

CLOUD OF CLARITY

We are all looking for clarity in our lives. We want to know what we are meant to be doing, in both small and big ways. This level of knowing is attainable, provided we meet one important prerequisite: a willingness to do what is uncomfortable.

Many times we say we want to know what our next step is, but often we hope that step is relatively easy. This is why we are frequently unclear. The Light of the Creator only gives us something we truly desire. We can say day and night that we want clarity, but before we can ask for that, we must ask of ourselves, “If achieving my purpose requires going outside my comfort zone, am I still willing to do it?”

As we learn in Kabbalah, life is cause and effect. In this case, there is a distinct link between the willingness to do what is uncomfortable and the ability to receive clarity.
The system is set up so that we will only be shown what we are willing and desiring to do.

Is our mindset comfort first or purpose first? The place we are at in our minds will determine whether or not we achieve clarity.

One of the greatest examples of this is the story of the Israelites in the desert. The Bible says the Creator designated a cloud for them to follow. Every time it stopped, the people stopped. When it moved, they moved. Sometimes it stayed for months; other times it moved after one day.

Isn’t it great they had this physical indication of where they needed to go and what they needed to do? Yes, but the Kabbalists explain that the only reason they merited that was because they were excited and desired to go wherever they needed to go, whether it was comfortable or not.

Obviously, if they spent hours unpacking only to have to repack the next day, that was uncomfortable. But they wanted that direction. Foremost in their minds was achieving their purpose in life, and they knew without a doubt that the cloud was leading them in that direction. Their desire was what allowed the Creator to continue leading them.

We too can merit this type of clarity, provided we desire purpose over comfort. But as long as we choose the latter, we will remain in the dark.

This week focus on your priorities. Do you desire to be shown your purpose, regardless of whether or not it is something that is easy for you to do? When that is truly your mindset, you will gain clarity throughout your life. Desire purpose over comfort.

I often like to see things as equations, and to clarify this point, here is one I often think of:

PURPOSE > COMFORT = CLARITY