This post is all about the power of helping and how you can use it to go from feeling helpless to helpful. You’ll discover how helping others unlocks your own strength and ignites positive change. You’ll learn the art of helping with respect and be encouraged to explore the power of your Divine nature.
The Power of Helping: Be Empowered & Empowering!
Spirit’s letting us know we’ll benefit by helping today. We’ve all been in a situation at some point when we were very grateful that someone stepped in to help us. Reflecting on that brings up our willingness, perhaps even desire, to have the roles reversed such that we get to be the ones helping. It’s nice to be able to reciprocate or pay forward by helping in some way.
The Ripple Effect of Kindness
We’ve all been there – facing a challenge and deeply appreciating the intervention of a kind soul. An experience like this highlights the inherent fulfillment that comes from helping others. It’s more than just reciprocating; it’s about setting a positive ripple effect in motion.
Helping with Respect: Autonomy and Empowerment
I’ve always found it gratifying to help or in some way to be in service to another. If there’s a way that I can, I do. But I’ve also learned not to assume that they want help because not everyone does. So these days I ask first.
Challenges are Opportunities to Grow and Evolve
One of the teachings I learned at the Berkeley Psychic Institute was that the challenges we face in life are our opportunities to evolve. If you step in and solve someone else’s problem for them, you take away their opportunity for growth. However, teaching someone how to solve their problem is different from solving their problem for them. As long as they learn the lesson, it’s the highest form of help. It’s akin to handing someone a fish versus teaching them how to fish.
Helping Yourself: Unearthing Your Strength
You may feel helpless in some part of your life, but even in your helplessness, there’s sure to be some way you can help another. In fact, by looking for ways that you can be in service to another, you’d find that you’re not as helpless as you thought. When you shift your attention away from the lack in your life by sharing your gifts and talents, your lack will lessen and your gifts and talents will grow. It just may be that by helping another you help yourself even more. That act of helping another takes you from helpless to helpful! That’s a big shift in energy!
Helping as Spirit: Embracing Your Divine Nature
As I was pondering all the ways we could utilize helping in our lives an interesting perspective surfaced. I talk often of the fact that we’re Spirit having a human experience. We are both Spirit and human at the same time, it’s just that we associate with our human nature far more than our Divine nature. So practice helping yourself next time you find yourself in need.
What Would Your Infinite Nature Do?
Shift to your Higher Self’s perspective. Imagine being Spirit, unlimited, all knowing, all powerful, everywhere present Spirit, and, like a loving mother would do, comfort, reassure, and love yourself. Suggest and share all the ideas and ways that the solution could come to be. Brainstorm solutions, write them down, and choose the most inspired ones to take action on.
Always Connected: The Power of Oneness
Whether you’re consciously aware of it or not, Spirit is always present. Why not try on being Spirit? You’re never alone. Whether someone else is helping you, or you’re helping someone else or yourself, notice how everyone benefits by the helping.
