Soul Sustenance

Situation Proofing Yourself (Part 2) 

A life without situations is like trying to live a life in an imaginary world, cut off from reality. There are two categories of people. One will make the situation smaller by waking up their positive perceptions. The other will make the situation bigger than what it is by waking up their negative perceptions. The negative perceptions are the first reasons for making an easy situation seemingly difficult or a difficult situation into a very difficult one. The negative perceptions stand on four pillars, the four questions - How? Why? When? What? Just remember the last time you were faced with a difficult situation, it was always one of these four questions or more than one on which your perceptions stood. If it’s all four, then the negative perceptions become the strongest and stand the tallest. And of course the other two exclamations or surprises – the If!and the But! These raise the negative perceptions even higher and before you know the situation takes alarming proportions, by a negative perception personality. On the other hand, a person who is a positive perception personality will rise above these questions and not create these two exclamations. This is situation-proofing. A situation is there but I have situation-proofed myself i.e. I go beyond the influence of the situation by keeping these questions and exclamations away and not give the negative perceptions an overwhelming form. 

As we all know, the energy of our consciousness (or smriti in Hindi) flows into our attitudes (or vriti in Hindi) and shapes them, the energy of our attitudes flows into our perceptions or the way we look at real-life situations (drishti or drishtikon in Hindi) and shapes them and finally the energy of our perceptions flows into our words and actions (or kriti in Hindi) and shapes them. This is the subtle role play that takes place in our mind and this is the process that is required to be completely understood before understanding how situation-proofing works, which we shall explain in tomorrow’s message.