Commitment

To what are you willing to commit? By this we mean truly commit – fully, thoroughly, completely and Spiritually. Most of you say you are committed to something and then somewhere along the line you give up or stop or feel that is enough or move your attention to another project or idea. In essence you stop before you reach the goal or the end or the point of whatever it was that initially took your attention. 

Why do you stop?

Is it too hard?

Does it not match your pictures?

Do you really not want the thing or goal to which you committed? 

Let us take weight. Many of you bemoan that you are not the right weight yet you continue to eat and sit in chairs and eat improper nutrition. You bemoan your fate, yet you do not want to give up or change anything about your condition. You might go on a diet but diets are short term unless you completely change your way of being with food. Anyone can starve themselves for a while. Anyone can give up non-nutritional foods for a short period but if you continue to crave them, long for them, wish for them, you will ultimately return to them. So perhaps your goals are not clearly defined. If you “wish” you were thinner than you will not be because as we have said many times, wishing does not have much energy. 

Let us take other examples as well before we discuss the process. Let us say you drink too much, work too much or don’t work hard enough. Maybe you want to buy a house or have a partner or bear children. You say these are goals, but are you committed to the process of having what you want? 

Having what you want is about claiming it for your Self. You need to truly be aligned with your goals and dreams. They must have determination behind them otherwise they are just thoughts or wishes. Commitment means sticking with your decisions even when it is not easy or convenient or simple or mainstream. Commitment is continuing even in the face of adversity, ridicule, coercion or distain. Commitment is knowing that what you are doing is for your best purpose in living. A commitment is your word that you will run the race and reach the goal line. You may fall down on the way there. You may trip and stumble, you may sit down and take some time out and you will most certainly question your decision to go down this path, but commitment keeps you honest and directed and intentional in your living. 

Many people are getting married or forming relationships. When they do not match your pictures or they are not as pretty as you wanted or they are hard or annoying or difficult, many of you want to leave. You think that they are like clothing you can try on and cast aside when they have a stain or a tear or are faded. This is not true. Now we realize that it takes two people or more in relationship to make things work, but our question to you is how committed are YOU to making this work. This does not mean subjugating your Self or living with abuse, but rather demanding what you believe is possible for both people concerned. It is calling forth another to be in commitment with the promises and vows taken. It is not always your way that is best and even it if is, it is not always your way that will triumph. 

So again, look at what you claim or are committed to and analyze that level of commitment. If the goal is more important than all the “things” in the way, then you can truly commit and begin your journey to joy, love and enlightenment 

We leave in love.

Namaste

From: Going in To Find Out - A Spiritual Discovery of Self - insights of Babaji Heather Cronrath