Feeling Stuck.
When your mind and heart are truly open abundance will flow to you effortlessly and easily.
Question:
Dear Mr. Chopra,
what does it mean when a person is stuck and the life situation isn’t changing? When all his/her friend are gaining more and more success in life but this person is left behind. I am in this kind of situation right now. I tried everything. I’ve read loads of classic books to be more intelligent, then Zen books, started meditation every day for more than a year ago, do yoga, do my best to be kind and accepting. I try to help others wherever I can, pray, contemplate, ask questions in moments of silence etc. but my life is in kind of vacuum and emptiness, I am like a real ascetic. Why is it so? Few years ago your book “7 spiritual laws of success” helped me in similar circumstances and I used to be immensely successful and miracles happened but then I did series of mistakes and I think a crisis happened. I just can’t get through this time, for few years already, I’ve lost so much time. I feel sad useless and loser now I fell in a total despair, can’t help crying every day for the last couple of weeks.
They say I am beautiful, intelligent and kind but what is wrong with me? Why is there no social success and such a meaningless life? Please help
Response:
There is nothing wrong with you. It’s not that your life situation isn’t changing, life is always in a constant state of change. It’s just that it is changing in ways that you don’t notice or don’t value. Right now you want professional success and social standing with your peers, and because that isn’t what is developing at this time in your life, you see your life as stuck. Feeling stuck is a perception depending on where you are looking in your life.
Start with the understanding that everything in life is organized by the cosmic intelligence of your true self to bring you the understanding and experience you need to realize your full human potential. Your true self knows and manifests what you really need. Your ego self, which looks outside and compares itself to others to find its way, has no understanding of what you really need. So look at your present situation as a good phase that will lead to your next stage of growth. You said you feel like and ascetic, empty and useless. This sounds to me like your higher self is telling you take maximum advantage of this period of your life to find your stillness, peace and purpose. This is special time given to you for going deep within and establishing a core self that will be your foundation for success in life. This is not the time for great outer accomplishment. This is why you feel unproductive and out of step with your friends. That’s okay, there is a proper time for everything. Follow your own rhythm. If you listen to your inner guidance, you will use this precious time to create a sense of purpose, love and being that will be with you the rest of your life.
Love,
Deepak
Feeling Stuck.
When your mind and heart are truly open abundance will flow to you effortlessly and easily.
Question:
Dear Deepak,
I feel stuck. Since a year or more. I do meditate regularly since two years now and I truly feel a connection with God but in the meantime feel like I’m in a cube of glass, in the world but not in the world. The friends have vanished, no new projects even though I am in perfect health, I feel wonderful and everything is ok with my family and me. It looks like contracted awareness as you wrote in Spiritual Solutions but maybe I cannot understand what I should do?
Thank you for inspiring me. And for all your work in the world!
Response:
You don’t need to do anything, the natural growth of awareness will move you past this experience. This experience of mild dissociation is a normal, but temporary stage of self-awareness as consciousness comes to realize it is not the body or the thinking mind, but something different and more permanent. As this experience/understanding becomes more familiar and comfortable, you will feel your new self, your true self begin to reengage with the world with feeling, but now your true self will no longer be defined and limited by your thoughts, sensations and feelings. That is why it is called a state of freedom.
Love,
Deepak
Comparison is the thief of joy!!! We can't judge our self worth by that of those around us! Our self worth is simply in our beautiful creation! NO one can be you, and thats how God designed you!
Comparison is the thief of joy!!! We can't judge our self worth by that of those around us! Our self worth is simply in our beautiful creation! NO one can be you, and thats how God designed you!
Comparison is the thief of joy!!! We can't judge our self worth by that of those around us! Our self worth is simply in our beautiful creation! NO one can be you, and thats how God designed you!