Serenity Prayer
Living the Serenity PrayerSeveral months ago, a friend neared me with a question. If I were to get up in front of a huge audience and speak regarding something I thought would make their lives better, what would that subject be? For the last assorted years of my instructing and speaking career, my primary response would have been to say, "Empowerment." This time however, I looked at my friend and without missing a beat said, "The Serenity Prayer." When he asked me why I would choose this subject, I told him that I had employed the Serenity Prayer for almost 20 years in my spiritual coaching and counseling exercise to support my clients. In this article, I would like to explore the serenity aspect of the prayer. As many times times is the case, when I get started to talk or write in regards to something, I like to see what Webster's Dictionary has to say when it comes to it. One definition I found for the word "serenity" was, "A place of calmness and tranquility." The question that brought up for me was, "Is serenity a place where we go, or a state that we live within?" Rather than just answering this question on my own, I decisive to see what other people had to say. Many of the persons I asked said that serenity is related with acceptance, as in The Serenity Prayer: "God concede me the serenity to receive the things I can not change." However when asked where they found the calmness and tranquility that defines serenity, a good deal of replied that when they did find it, it was when they meditated or chanted; or did yoga or T'ai Chi. For others, it came by listening to sure kinds of music. Some said that playing or singing music could also fabricate that state of serenity. And then there are those that find serenity while cooking, knitting, or even shooting hoops. Did you detect that all these things required the venture of setting apart a amount of time of time and doing something? It was a place they went to or an action they participated in. It was distinctly not a state of being they experienced in their ordinary day-to-day activities. Another definition I found for serenity referred to being free from stress or emotion; the absence of mental stress and anxiety. Again, a question arose in my mind. "Does that mean that serenity is only accomplishable when we are empty of emotions and thoughts?" Even the possibleness of eliminating emotions and thoughts made no sense to me. So I did what I do best and permitted my soul to take me to the place where the answer might lie, at least where it might lie for me. As often happens when I go to my intuitive self for guidance, I flashed onto something from my past that guided me to an answer. For close to twenty years when people ask me what I do for work, I tell them that I don't do work, I do joy. I do joy because in regards to 90% of the time, I am in joy, and percentage of that joy comes from what I do that a lot of people may call work. I may tell them this because I realized that joy, in and of itself, is not an emotion, but how completely you live, learn, and move through the emotions that you have at the time that you are experiencing them. Now why would I fetch up joy when I am speaking with regards to serenity? Simple -- because to be in joy is all in regards to acceptance; accepting precisely where you are, and doing so totally and without judgment. This is the basi thing that one prays for in the Serenity Prayer. Serenity is without doubt or question tied to acceptance. So what then is acceptance? Often, we associate acceptance with giving up on something, turning the other cheek. However, when I listen that, I think of a statement that Simon Peter (St Peter), one of the beings who once in a while comes through me when I trance channel, made through me: "Sometimes you turn the other cheek, and most times you stomp down on their foot so they don't do it again." Acceptance is regarding distinctly seeing and being in the reality of any situation; not just thinking regarding how you would like for it to be, or fear it might be. It also means dealing with the circumstance from that place of acceptance. We may receive something and still have unhappy emotions or thoughts with regards to it. Frustration, anger or sadness don't modify our acceptance of a situation, they just are, and they make us feel a sure way, which we in turn likewise accept. Living in serenity isn't in regards to having no emotions, no stress, or no thoughts but light and fluffy ones. It is all with regards to acceptance. In the Serenity Prayer, we ask God to concede us the serenity to receive the things that we cannot change. Yet isn't it the capacity to receive that which you cannot change that leads to serenity? The acceptance of what you are not more than willing to change, but recognise that you could change, may also fetch serenity. It is possible to realize that we may modify something, and at the same time determine that now is not the best time to change it. But sometimes, we tell ourselves that it is okay to leave things as they are, and then proceed to beat ourselves up over the choice. If we cannot be in peace regarding living with something for the moment, then perhaps, we actually can't wait in serenity. Realizing this is the divergence among timing and avoidance. If it is veritably just timing, then you actually may be at peace with the choice, if you can't than it is in all likelihood avoidance. In other words, one does not find serenity without acceptance, and acceptance brings serenity. One of the great spiritual paradoxes! Acceptance in all forms is what brings one to live in the place of serenity. Some might even call it radical acceptance, and this is what makes it possible to not only "find" serenity in sure activities, but to live in serenity. So serenity is not in regards to living without, or in emptiness, but it is when it comes to living to the full or entire extent within all that life brings you, completely embracing all of your emotions and each circumstance as it appears, so that at the end of the day, you may joyfully receive that you are just are as you are, living in each moment. We begun by talking about how a great deal of humans may find moments of serenity for themselves, but the most important question is: How may we bridge the gap amidst moments of serenity to a life of serenity? The answer to this question involves four steps:
It is as simple and easy as that, which is neither simple or easy, but may be accomplished. Can we actually live in serenity? Better yet, may we live in serenity when we are living in a world that is fearful, judgmental and full of unknowns? Absolutely, in fact it is the only way we may live entirely in this world.
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Wha does the serenity prayer mean? I kinda have an idea i just would like to have more detail plz . Thanks. Simply put: It's in regards to surrender to God. |
