Invitations
I have come to believe that we invite more into our lives than we’re willing to admit – good and bad.
We will do our level best to cite the circumstances that have unwelcome events visit us, but we do not consider, even for a moment, that we put out the welcome mat.
I can’t prove what I’m offering here but I have a ton of examples in my life of unwelcome results that I deeply suspect, on some level, that I’ve invited in. It’s my unproven assertion that patterns that regularly repeat themselves throughout our lives have an invitation. The reason they keep coming back is because they have a RSVP card.
One of the leading clues is the way people treat you. If you find there’s a pattern of how poorly many people treat you, I submit that it’s not the people conspiring with each other that gets you that treatment; it’s you wearing an out of view sign that invites and instructs people to treat you in that fashion.
We invite in what we claim is uninvited and then we want to call it an invasion.
We are sending out signals consciously, but mostly unconsciously, that invite in the treatment we receive. We, in effect, teach people how to treat us.
If you are tired of continually being treated a certain way by lots of people, you may want to check in before lashing out.
You would benefit by some quiet reflection on what it is that you are doing to magnetize the muck instead of attributing it to outside circumstances or bad luck.
This type of reflection is a work in progress for me and I invite you to also adopt the view that you’re welcoming in what’s going on with you.
I believe that opening yourself up to personal inspection will cause you, after a fashion, to send out different invitations and welcome in more inviting results.
All the best,
John
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