Ever make what seemed a bad choice?   Or perhaps you have gotten results which seemed bad?    Maybe you have had or still have encounters or relationships which seem versions of living nightmares? 

Yes?

Well then, welcome to the club.  

If we live this human existence, these are the party favors.   The favors pile on in what ever quantity we require. 

As many helpings as we each need for us to learn the lessons we need to learn.  For most if not all of us, pain seems to be the Great Teacher.  

Budda, Christ, Moses, for each, their paths included individual trials.

Do you remember your choices as you make them?  Are they made in complete love?  Are they spiced with or rife with fear?

We alway choose to experience exactly what we need in order to learn the lessons we need to learn.  

As we see in “The Way of Mastery“, all choices really are the choice to love or fear. 

These choices we make, the people we encounter along our way, we have choosen as learning experiences and teachers. 

If we choose to think of our teachers as our tormentors, we have used our power of choice to learn lessons in the arena of what it is like to experience acting like a victim.

Recently, I have come to view the many excellent nightmarish relationships, encounters and experiences of my life as teachers and lessons.  This is a loving retrospective perspective, which provides a great deal of comfort, when made honestly and wholly.

While it may be difficult to be grateful for, or allowing of, a tormentor per se, what if we relalize that we choose this torment?  What if we realise we had learned lessons through this torment?  What if we realized that we could not be where we are today without this torment?

What if we realized we choose this torment, because it was the best we could do, to get to the next level of our growth, our development, our increased enlightenment? 

That yes, we made this choice.  The tormentor only obliged us our choice?

What if we realized, this individual, this circumstance, this encounter, was our teacher?  Our lesson?

What if we were honest?  What if we were back in time, to the place we made the choice?

What if we reconsidered how we made the choice we made in the first place?

I see many people, myself included.  Who when asked and are honest, will tell you they choose without regard for consequence, or compromised, or knew or feared for a poor outcome, and yet, choose so regardless.  That we in fact chose not in complete love.  That we chose with varying degrees of fear.

To choose in fear is to choose fear.  Choose instead love.  Unless fear is the best you can do.  In which case, say hello to your teacher.  Welcome your lessons which are surely coming.

These lessons and teachers are here to teach us what we need to experience in order to learn to make better choices.

Many of us have, or have had, various expletive nicknames for these experiences and encounters. 

These nicknames are often quite a bit shy of loving.

We do well to lovingly and gratefully refer to these encounters by their proper names:  Lesson and Teacher.

Try it and you will feel its power to transform your life.