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Gildo Santiago
There are things in our environment that are out of our control, and mindfulness is about recognizing this reality and acting on the greater good for yourself and for others. This often manifests as compassion. At Optimum Performance Institute, Core Mindfulness skills are taught and embodied throughout the program. Failure to Launch issues can be beaten by this type of direction; it ultimately can help us to persist our way out of the darkness. With this internal awakening, with this refuge, one can transgress towards the way of a peaceful warrior.
A fantastic book that I recently finished reading and studying is the Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman, which has really changed my way of thinking lately and I've been working on practicing the concepts in the book.
I originally watched the Peaceful Warrior movie years ago and it had a lot of powerful lessons and insights that I had used to improve my life. Around a month or so ago, I re-watched the movie and decided to pick up the book to learn more about Dan Millman's story and philosophy towards life.
I loved the book so much that I decided to read the follow-up book called Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior, which goes deeper into the lessons and concepts from the Way of the Peaceful Warrior. In this Way of the Peaceful Warrior book review, I'm going to share some of the most powerful insights that I've had that really stuck out for me and has made a difference in my life. I highly recommend you pick up the book, or at least watch the movie. The Way of the Peaceful Warrior changes lives.
It isn't until one night Dan wakes up in the middle of the night and decides to take a walk to a nearby gas station that he encounters an old man that he calls Socrates, who begins mentoring him and exposes how deeply unhappy Dan is. The story essentially chronicles Dan's story through life to evolve himself into a Peaceful Warrior, with all the powerful lessons that he's learning from Socrates.
The lesson here is simple: nothing in your outer world will ever make you happy or fulfilled. Happiness can only come from the inside. When you truly come to this realization and stop deluding yourself, you can gain that sense of peace and satisfaction within.
Another lesson in the book is the idea that daily life provides the spiritual weight lifting that strengthens our spirits as we ascend the mountain path. In other words, the way itself creates the warrior.
While experience and wisdom is important, in the Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Socrates teaches Dan that there's a difference between Knowing and Doing. You can know what to do or understand something, but you don't really KNOW it until you're DOING it.
A big theme in the Way of the Peaceful Warrior that Socrates instills in Dan is the power of NOW. The only time that matters is RIGHT NOW, this moment. This moment is all that we have. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow doesn't exist. But, the problem with most people is that we live in our heads. We live in either the past or the future.
All stress and fear exists in either the past or the future. In fact, fear is just anticipation of pain. If you can truly live in the moment and get out of your head, you can be free of all of the garbage in your head and perform at levels you never thought possible. Not only that, but you can be at peace.
This was another huge lesson for me that I can relate to, as often we get so caught up in our goals that we don't pay attention to or really enjoy the journey. We spend the majority of our lives in the pursuit of achieving things, so we might as well ENJOY IT.
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Yellow signifies positivity, optimism, self-belief. Orange represents spiritual growth. I also see hints of pink shining through, hints of compassion even though this is not part of the primary message but is something I feel is a supportive message.
There may be times when someone doesn't agree with your point of view and chastises you, there are times when you know that you're going to have to have a really tough conversation with someone, there are times when you want to get your opinion across and you know it won't be an opinion that everyone around you will accept, there are times when you feel the need to stand up for something you believe in.
I guess a good motto for Archangel Ariel would be "when all around you are losing their heads, keep yours". When we are confronted by someone, when we feel passionate about something, when we feel the need to stand up for what we believe in, when we feel it important to fight for our opinion, Archangel Ariel is advising us to keep our calm. When others are getting heated in a conversation, rise above it. When others are shouting around you, keep your peace and stay calm.
It seems the world around us is in a constant state of turmoil. Nations up in arms against nations, political dramas everywhere you look, destruction of the environment and the loss of natural animal habitats. We are bathed in negative news every day and you might think that the only way for your voice to be heard is to be louder than the next loudest person. But that doesn't get the best result.
Because as you raise your voice to meet those around you, as what you think is passion (but turns out to be anger) bubbles to the surface, you are not actually benefitting the situation. You're simply adding fuel to the fire.
You have a voice, you have an opinion and you shouldn't be afraid to share it. But Archangel Ariel is telling us that the better way to enter the arena and be heard is to do so as a peaceful warrior. When you know you need to stand up and be heard, and we all need to be heard, the angels are encouraging you to do so, but only do so when you're coming from a positive and peaceful space, a place of high energy and vibrational frequency. The angels are asking you not to fall down to the fear-based vibration that you may be up against. Raise yourself above that. Let your spear shine with the light of positivity, optimism, and self-belief, rather than appear as an emblem of war.
If you stop and look at what is happening around you from a higher perspective, with fresh eyes, you will see that the anger that seems to suffocate every single situation, be it personal, political or environmental, is just adding fuel to each one of those fires. Nothing is getting fully and fairly resolved. So, by taking a higher perspective, you can already see that anger and fear-based emotions are not resolving conflicts. Because war, conflict, fear, hate... they're all very low vibrational frequencies. And, when it comes to energy, like attracts like. So if you enter a disagreement, which already carries a low vibrational energy, with a low-vibrational emotion like fear or anger, it will simply breed and escalate other low-vibrational emotions such as resentment, hatred, bitterness.
The angels are inviting us to take a different stance, to bring high vibrational energies like peace and love to a disagreement, to a situation we feel is wrong. The more high vibrational energy we can bring to a situation, the better the chance of quashing and eradicating the low vibrational energies and resolving the situation. The angels are advising us that there is true strength in holding things together, when others fall apart, and sending everyone around you (especially those challenging you) peaceful thoughts and blessings.
I haven't yet touched on the colour of pink that appears in small amounts on the cards. It's not a dominant colour so is not part of the primary message but I feel, as a secondary message, it is important.
Pink is the colour of compassion. Showing compassion to others but also to ourselves. There will be times that, with all the best intention of the world, we will drop down to the emotions of fear and anger in a situation... we're human and far from perfect. In these instances, the angels are inviting us to be compassionate on ourselves and learn from the experience rather than beating ourselves up. The more you learn, the more you grow and improve. Where you dropped down to a low vibration in one discussion and only realised what had happened afterwards, the next time it happens you'll be able to see that your vibration is dropping and immediately act on it. You can only learn through mistakes and being compassionate on yourself about those mistakes.
WOW! Lovely soul... this has been a looonnng interpretation today! But I feel it such an important one. We are living in turbulent times where other nations, animals, Mother Earth need our support now more than ever before. The angels are our greatest teachers. So when they invite you to become a peaceful warrior, listen. Next time you see something that stirs emotion inside of you, send the people, the animals in that situation, love and peace. Don't jump on the bandwagon of fear and anger as that only adds fuel to the fire. We are here to heal the earth, our fellow human-beings and the animals we share this planet with. Healing can only come from a place of love and peace.
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