Doers
By: Claire Elaine
Tags: Spiritual Secrets, Faith, Awareness, Personal Growth, Spirituality

Doers

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From the time we could reason the majority of us moved through the remainder of our childhood knowing that as we grew we would slowly begin to lay aside our carefree games to become as the elders around us. We would learn and evolve into, hopefully, capable adults, become the doers rather than the done for.

Though becoming an adult was neither optional nor avoidable coming to be seen as a responsible adult was not automatically guaranteed. Responsibility had to be proven in many ways, deeds had to be performed and witnessed before one could be given the title of a responsible adult.

The craved for adjective needed to be proven by the verb, respond. We needed to show that we could take responsibility for ourselves and our lives and further take on the responsibility of those who came to be in our care by gauging and then responding to their needs.

I should think most of us achieved well enough to be granted the title, but even if we were we knew that we could not simply attain the title once and hold it forever, we came to believe that we needed to reprove our worthiness of its honor constantly.

Responsibility came to be about action. For some the taking of, and the showing of, responsibility became an un-realized habit. They could not sit idly by while others faltered, they were now the doers and they had to do. No matter the problem, or whose, they were the answer.

Mm, so many times in my life I have waded into the fray believing it was my duty to function as the responsible adult amongst the clearly irresponsible, arrogantly full of my own particular brand of wisdom and my own sense of rightness, wielding both with the entire weight of my ego behind them, only to find that it may have been more prudent to leave well enough alone.

Non-judgement, non-action can be difficult habits to acquire especially so if one has not recognized the “responsible” habit and broken that first.

We all like to feel useful and we tend to fight the idea that our actions may not have been necessary, but sometimes there is no getting away from the fact that we may have over-stepped our mark.

Should this happen and our help and guidance are rejected we might begin to think that we have lost our own studied reasoning and begin to doubt not only ourselves but our beliefs of how the world works. As we believe doubt has no place in the hearts of the faithful our belief in the rightness of our path and purpose can be the next to fail. We begin to wonder if we have misinterpreted the reasons for our presence in the lives of others and lose the true sense of what we are. What a mess we can make by doing.

All messes can, of course, be prevented, and luckily for this type of mess, no action from any of us doers is required. According to the channeling below a change in our thinking may be necessary though, it seems we may have been remiss in believing responsibility could only be proven through action and we may also need to reconsider our thoughts and fears in regards to doubt. We perhaps further need to allow a little doubt into our minds when it comes to what we believe constitutes a responsible response.

Namaste

Claire

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Hand in Hand

The path to wisdom is fraught with indecision and doubt. The monkey mind pipes up again and again with thoughts such as — Do I really know what I’m doing? Who am I to believe myself worthy of great knowledge? Where is the peace and contentment thought to come with wisdom?

No matter how far one has truly come, these thoughts will arise — heed, they arise for everyone on every perceived level of learning. If no doubt arose the gentlest of people would crash about life doing exactly as they pleased, possibly hurting themselves or others.

Doubt and indecision has a purpose, in that, it pauses the action, gives time for the spirit to catch up. Free will is, somewhat, of a misnomer as within “free” will is a type of price and that price is responsibility.

Wise, knowing people can sometimes see how another’s problems could be improved with their guidance and help, and are often keen to do so, even feel compelled, this is where the responsibility arises.

It comes in the form of not doing but allowing — respectful inaction. The other has their own brand of wisdom and their own monkey mind is just as noisy as those seeking to help them. The enlightenment and comfort of each individual is not the responsibility of one sole individual but the responsibility of each individual soul.

Doubt is not necessarily a sign of lost faith. Doubt is a sign of creative intelligence. Doubt is born from thinking of all possible outcomes for any particular circumstance, a very useful ability to preserve one’s well-being and that of others.

We have often implored you to trust, and we still ask this of you, but we also understand the worth of a little doubt and indecision.

You are intelligent beings who are more than capable of wise discernment, we ask only that you not fear doubt. That you allow it its place, heed its caution, check your pace and proceed with the lightness of heart, for faith and doubt can easily walk hand in hand.

Namaste

Channeled Text February 2018

The following linked channeling is also in its way about responsibility, though it is perhaps better said to be about shared responsibility.

Darshak Rana