The fantastic thing about our true nature is that we possess its qualities already. Discover these qualities and their connection to cultivating mindfulness, knowledge, well-being, and skilful motion in our lives.
Over time of working with many various individuals in workshops, retreats, and in one-on-one teaching, I’ve discovered that all of us have knowledge inside us. It doesn’t matter what difficulties or psychological struggles we have been working with on the time, once I can information them out of confusion and into a spot of deep presence, by inhabiting the current second, shoppers begin to present these qualities:
- Love
- Readability
- Peace
- Playful curiosity
- Braveness
- Fulfilment
- Connection
When mixed, these qualities are what I’d name knowledge, or what I generally confer with as non secular intelligence—a approach of being on the earth guided by the points of our deeper being.
The 7 Strengths of Knowledge
Love: Essentially the most distinguished of all of the seven strengths is that of affection. I’ve discovered that once they turned linked to their deep nature, shoppers typically understood issues in another way and commenced spontaneously displaying compassion, care and kindness to each themselves and others. This typically prolonged to emotions of benevolence, heat and friendliness in the direction of all of life. This love for all times was typically the catalyst for a change in residing that mirrored this new perspective on, and relationship with, the world round them. This facet of our deeper consciousness has been superbly expressed by mindfulness instructor and creator Mark Coleman: “Don’t inform me that kindness and consciousness are completely different. Consciousness is the muse of kindness. Kindness is the expression of consciousness.”
“Don’t inform me that kindness and consciousness are completely different. Consciousness is the muse of kindness. Kindness is the expression of consciousness.”
Mark Coleman
Readability: As soon as they inhabited the current second deeply, individuals appeared to naturally connect with deeper insights and better views than have been out there to them earlier than. Many had the sudden sense of confidence that they knew what to do of their lives and easy methods to heal or handle sure inside and exterior struggles that they had been grappling with. The issues and interior turmoil that had earlier than appeared all consuming now abruptly felt manageable. Not feeling caught, overwhelmed or confused, their minds calmed and cleared.
Peace: With sufficient defusion from ideas, shoppers began to really feel a lot better interior peace. This typically got here with a way of ‘snapping out of it’, waking up and discovering a quiet and nonetheless place inside the place they knew every little thing was essentially OK. I typically noticed an instantaneous change of their facial expressions, signalling a deep leisure, once they touched down on this place of interior calm.
Playful curiosity: There was typically fairly a notable change as they moved from being caught in cycles of self-judgment, rigidity, or resistance to a non-judgmental curiosity about completely different points of their expertise, together with troublesome ideas and emotions. Usually they began displaying a extra relaxed and open-hearted angle in the direction of themselves and their circumstances. This, in flip, softened and eased their minds and our bodies and opened up extra creativity and adaptability of their responses. In addition they confirmed better cheerfulness and generally even a way of humour about their scenario. As Eckhart Tolle observes: “Life isn’t as critical because the thoughts makes it out to be.”
Braveness: When inhabiting the current second deeply, and linked to consciousness, individuals typically felt a shift to a way of braveness and confidence that they may deal with no matter life would possibly throw their approach; they abruptly felt that that they had all of the assets inside to take action. They have been higher capable of keep courageous within the face of concern, troublesome feelings and ideas, extra in a position now to face as much as them and work with them skillfully. In addition they confirmed a agency dedication to their values and doing what they felt deep of their coronary heart was proper, even when it wasn’t the graceful or straightforward possibility. This braveness additionally allowed them to be extra genuine of their expression of who they honestly have been, now not so dominated by fear about what others would assume.
These qualities are inherent to our deeper nature so we’ve entry to them in any given second. They don’t must be created, constructed, or manufactured. They merely must be accessed.
Fulfilment: Linked with their deepest self, individuals discovered a brand new type of contentment. They reported feeling connection to a way of wholeness, completeness, and success that wasn’t depending on something exterior, and so they typically skilled emotions of profound well-being, together with gratitude for issues that earlier than had been missed.
Connection: Individuals typically reported a sense of connection to one thing bigger than themselves. Generally this was a sense of non secular connection, generally a better sense of connection to individuals, the planet, and even to life itself. With this sense of connection, they gained a wider perspective on life, past their on a regular basis circumstances. This in flip led to emotions of belonging, wholeness and even an enhanced reverence for all times. Instantly their issues felt smaller and extra manageable within the context of a wider and bigger world view.
These qualities are inherent to our deeper nature so we’ve entry to them in any given second. They don’t must be created, constructed, or manufactured. They merely must be accessed. The flexibility to entry and act from these strengths is what we’d name knowledge or non secular intelligence.
We give attention to cultivating the abilities to entry and act from the strengths inherent within the deeper self repeatedly, till they develop into increasingly embodied and sink into our bones and our complete being like heat sunshine. They then stream out into the world via our speech, actions, and attitudes.
Though phrases are tough relating to our deep nature and in the end fail to explain and outline it, this deeper a part of our human nature is essential in our journey to true, lasting and steady interior energy.
Excerpted from Deep Resilience by Melli O’Brien, revealed by Rethink Press. Copyright © 2024 Melli O’Brien. Reprinted with permission.
