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Martin Lass: S.O.L.A.R.®
Beyond Materiality. Beyond Spirituality.
Toward the Complete Human Being…
Somebody Burst Your Bubble?
by Martin Lass
Have you ever had times when you’re really excited about something and the world’s looking rosy—maybe you just got a promotion at work, maybe you just won a little money on the lottery, maybe you just had a brilliant idea about how to get ahead in your life, or maybe somebody just gave you some really big compliments—and then somebody or something comes along and completely bursts your bubble?
I know for myself that my immediate reaction to this is more often than not to get angry and to start blaming the people or events “responsible” for kicking the stool out from under me. It pushes my injustice, poor me, and victim buttons bigtime, among others.
I think it would be true to say that most people would agree with my reaction and empathize with them, recalling their own example of the same kind of bubble-bursting scenarios. Are you thinking of your own examples right now?
We’re conditioned by our upbringing and the consciousness of the people around us as we grow up to react like this, to immediately blame outside “causes,” whether these are seen to be people, events, or circumstances.
However, our conditioning doesn’t excuse our reactions if we wish for a more conscious and intentional life, because our reactions are ours and nobody else’s.
Let’s consider what might seem at first like a radical idea: events and circumstances—including other people’s actions—are neither good nor bad; they are simply what they are. The only thing that “makes” these events and circumstances “good” or “bad” is our own reactions and judgments for or against them.
The fact that my wife burst my bubble when I got home from work all full of myself after winning a big contract is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong. I may consider it bad, wrong, cruel, insensitive, unfair, and a whole host of other things, but these are my reactions, and nobody except me is responsible for them.
Here’s another idea that goes with the previous one: the Universe is doing everything it can to bring me back to centered, balanced consciousness.
What does this mean? It means that when I get elated, infatuated, cocky, over-excited, over-confident, Pollyannaish, etc about things—what I might even regard as just being “happy”—the Universe will try to get me to see the other sides of things, i.e. to come back to Earth, to see sense beyond infatuation, to get off my high horse, to calm down, and to be a little more cautious and sensible.
Conversely, when I get depressed, resentful, self-depreciating, unmotivated, fearful and doubting, and too critical and cynical about things—what I might consider at the time to be the truth of my existence—the Universe will try to get me to see the other sides of these things, too, i.e. to help me out of my depression, to dissolve my resentment, to regain some self-worth, to find motivation once more, to dissolve fears and doubts, and to regain some trust in things as they are.
The challenge is seeing these other sides, though, when we’re in the midst of either the high of elation and self-righteousness or the low of depression and self-wrongeousness. These extreme motions tend to be like speeding trains!
The first step in dealing with them, though, is to take responsibility for our reactions. We can’t really change the world around us; and we certainly can’t change people, as much as we would like to sometimes! So, wouldn’t it be better to learn to love things as they are? To recognize that there is only one thing that we can actually change and that’s our reactions? And to gradually see the ways in which the Universe “responds” to our most extreme emotions by ever giving us the other sides of the picture, the other sides of the coin? And, further to this last point, to recognize that when somebody bursts our bubble, we may have been attracting it by being overly “up” in an unbalanced way? And to recognize that when somebody or something is trying to helps up, it’s not “criticism,” “interference,” or “pity,” but is the Universe trying to help us out of a hole?
One of the ways we can help ourselves see and understand all these things and begin to have some choice about how we react to things is, when we find ourselves carried away by our reactions, whether these reactions are overly positive or overly negative, is to make the conscious and intentional effort to come back to center, back to balance, which is where the Universe is trying to direct us anyway.
To do this, it’s very useful to place our attention on our breathing, to relax our belly and let it drop, to consciously relax our face, particularly our forehead, and to relax our shoulders. Allow ourselves to sink into the Earth’s gravity—into it’s loving embrace—not as a depressed kind of giving up, but allowing the Earth to hold us, support us, and take away the tensions that come from our reactions, whether these tensions are of the “up” kind or the “down” kind.
Remain in this place for a few minutes or even longer, continuing to observe and attend to our breathing, continuing to check the tensions as they return, and continuing to relax belly, face, and shoulders.
You may be surprised at how this helps bring us back to center, back to emotional balance, and back to ourselves, turning our previous extreme emotions into something else: the inklings of a the higher experience of unconditional Love.
Truth, Light, Love, and Oneness,
Martin Lass
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Martin Lass,
The first S.O.L.A.R.® Emissary, Astrologer, Author
& Musician
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The first S.O.L.A.R.® Emissary is Martin Lass. His background includes over twenty years spent studying in two separate mystery schools, each with a direct lineage extending back into antiquity—one school coming through Egyptian traditions and the other from a hidden Central Asian tradition combined with the Sufi Way.
He is also a professional astrologer, astrological/spiritual counselor, accredited practitioner of various healing modalities, musician, composer, and published author.)
S.O.L.A.R.®
Beyond Materiality. Beyond Spirituality.
Toward the Complete Human Being…
www.solarjourney.org
info@solarjourney.org
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