Learn and Integrate - (4170)

This is something I am learning the last couple of days.

I am feeling strongly that we need to learn from what is happening in our life right now or what has just happened.

The book I feel we need to read is what is happening in our life or what has happened.

My observation is that we tend to ignore what's happening or has happened in our life and read, listen and watch all sorts of other books, audio and video.

The text, audio and video we read, listen and watch can be great and very helpful, but it just may not be what we really just now.

Our life is always wanting to teach us something and if we don't pay attention to it we really miss the chance to learn so many valuable lessons. 

Our life though is very forgiving, it repeats the lessons often, sometimes with a sprinkling of pain to intice us to learn the lesson this time round.

I think that we would want for ourselves to move on and learn many new and other kinds of lessons, not just fail to learn the same old lesson.

So in practice what I am doing is going over life and doing many retrospections picking up first of all the things I was told that I did wrong. Becoming conscious of the correction as deep as I can, reflecting deeply on it and resolving to change and put the correction into action.

Moving lessons into action is the start of integrating the lesson into ourselves. Repeated action brings more and more the lesson into our nature - thus slowly integrating it into ourselves. 

If we were not corrected then see all that went wrong or was painful and then look for what caused that. There is a gem of a lesson waiting there for us to learn as well.

The thing that I am understanding is that if we don't deliberately focus on the events of our life that we live and have lived with the intention to extract learning, we are not going to learn anything, and all these learning opportunities will pass us by and we'll end making the same mistakes over and over again, sometimes with more pain.

End (4170).