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Progress is Relative

by Robyn M. Speed

Sometimes the progress is forwards and sometimes it is ‘almost’ sideways. We say ‘almost’ because it can often be perceived as such and yet it is actually like an expanding cloud of understanding. As if you have taken one concept that you understood at a simple level and suddenly that concept has expanded into full knowingness and experience, hence it has not so much been forward as expansive/ sideways.

To gain further understanding in any area is always progress. Do not be too focused on forward movement that you leave a thin line of limited understanding behind you. Take the time to consider the concepts and allow your own understanding to fully expand. And do not think that you know all there is to know about a concept because as you continue your path you will fine your understandings about everything change--as if you have put on pink tinted glasses, and thus affected your view of everything through those glasses.

Take time to stop. Sit a while on your path. BE on your path. Fully experience and appreciate everything that has carried you to this point and everything and everyone that is a part of your life at this point.

Sometimes what you have left behind you, pulls you backwards. You do not see it, you may not even notice it save for a lack of ‘ease’ in forward movement. In these times be aware that there may be something pulling you back. Allow yourself to sense what that might be. When you gain an understanding and appreciation of what it is, also allow yourself to know how to heal and release that issue. You DO have that knowledge within you. You know how to heal everything, if you could just allow yourself to tap into that.

Your path should be built of a solid enough energy so that if you do, at any time, need to take a few steps backwards, or HAVE TO take a few steps backwards, the path will be solid enough to support you. If it is not then it will be as if you are on a rickety wooden swing bridge over a canyon. Build it well and it will be a solid road across a level plain.

Yes, there is always something to strive for in your lives. Always something you are working towards, be it to get to the end of the school day when you are a child, or the end of the meeting when you are an adult at work. You rush to finish school, to complete your education, to finished just about everything. STOP! Train yourself to ‘experience’ the moments, find the truth in them. You are exactly where you are meant to be. So enjoy being there. You are exactly WHO you are meant to be, so enjoy being yourself.

What we find sad is children who feel that they are not smart enough, not talented enough, not pretty enough. This is horrible that any child ever feels this way. A child is a miraculous Being of beauty and glory. They should be taught to be content in who they are. Yes, indeed, teach them to work hard at school, discuss with them what they would like to do with their life, the kinds of toys they would like to have, the kind of house, car, clothes etc. Teach them how to attain those things by assisting them one day at a time. But also teach them that a child who gets 100% on a test is no greater than a child who gets 43%. All children are magnificent, and they are each being led towards where they are meant to be with their life. Teach the children to be content within themselves, and to love who they are. Be proud of them, and teach them to be proud of themselves, and proud of their friends also. A child who is kind to another, is as important to the world as heart surgeon. A child who shares a chocolate bar with a friend is as important as the man who brings peace to a nation. A child who laughs with a friend is as important as a nurse who holds the hand of a dying patient. No one is lesser, no one is greater, be they adult or child. So NEVER judge people according to a materialistic scale. Judge them on WHO they are.

Guide the children on their path. Assist them in building a strong path. Teach them the foundations of being a great person. Teach them to open their heart. Teach them to trust, and to be honest. Teach them by example, for a child will assess your behavior before they hear the words you speak. You cannot tell a child to do one thing while you yourself do another. They are not naļve, they are often wiser than you!

Teach them to not rush forwards so fast that they miss the opportunity to create a strong foundation ‘now’. The foundations they lay now will support them when they need to take a pause and rest a while.

Teach them that sometimes the progress they make is not evident to the world, and sometimes not even evident to them.

Progress is relative. Sometimes you think you are stagnating, sometimes you think you are going backwards, sometimes you think you are hurtling forwards. But, progress is not only relative, it is inevitable. Accept that you progress on many levels, and do not judge that progress. Allow the progress, allow the growth, allow the new understandings to rise when you are ready to become aware of them.

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