Ahimsa: nonviolence: 7
Yesterday I attended the Al anon meeting that I try to get to each week. I go for many reasons, but studying Ahimsa, I am reminded that one of the symptoms that I am working with in Al Anon is the compulsion to help, or should I say, fix, others. Seriously, just writing on Ahimsa is my desire to fix the world, and those around me. I believe that we will benefit from the Yogic Sutras, and Kundalini, and it is my mission to make it available to those that are interested, but this compulsion to fix people, places and things has to be dealt with. In Deborah Adeles insightful book THE YAMAS & NIYAMAS, Delveloping Yoga’s Ethical Practice, she writes that that if I am out to fix you, rather than being present and just lending a supportive ear, I am behaving in a violent manner by robbing you of your dignity, your growth, and not trusting you, or your higher power, to know exactly what it is that your soul needs to learn and how it needs to learn it. So for all of those that I have tried to fix in so many different ways, I apologize. Have compassion. Know that I am using you as a sounding board to try and fix myself. You are my mirror. We are one being. And next time, when you are telling me your troubles, or just seem a bit agitated, and I start to try and fix you, just tell me to shut the fuck up. Try to say it with a smile. J
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