dailydatewithgod

If we want to know why we see things the way we do we need to be tuned into to our states.  We like to think that what is going on outside of us is the cause of what we are thinking and feeling.  But ask anyone who has ever been in love how wonderful everything seems to be.  It states in the Talmud, “We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.”  It seems abrupt at first concept but as we allow it to seep into our understanding we realize we are empowered by it.  If we know how to change our state, we know how to change what we are seeing and experiencing.  We no longer have to fall for the illusion that we are a victim of circumstance or what other people are doing or not doing.  We may be more comfortable giving away our sovereignty but comfort does not always equal freedom.  So many of our states are a result of habitual patterns and we fear to step out of them because we know them well and do not have to use too much brainpower to be in them. However, we can even change the state through which we view fear.  I used to make myself wrong for being fearful.  It was only through my daily dates with God and living a life no longer enslaved by my addictions that I began to see fear is just one state of mind.  I can choose to hold on to it, let it go, look at it from a different angle, adopt a turn of phrase which empowers me, ask a friend how they see it, invite God to show me how she sees it, and so on.  Whatever I do is my choice and I can stop living at the effect of others and situations. The gift of knowing we can change our states with something as simple as a deep breath is living as the empowered beings God created us to be.