The Man in the Mirror PROJECT - Negative Forces and Adversity

Mother with twin flame soul mate Sri Aurobindo
India

Many of us have gone through life and sometimes we find ourselves in difficult situations with people,
circumstances and sometimes even with negative spirits.  Did I say all that in the same sentence?  Yes I did!

When we find ourselves in such situations it is always the same ideas that keep us there.  What are your thoughts at the time?  How did your thoughts contribute to the current situation and what are the circumstances of your thinking that keep you there?

Many years ago I found myself wondering if exorcism, the catholic term for expelling a demon or negative spirit, was real.  My question was "Can a negative spirit actually take possession of a person?"  I found my answer by coming face to face with a negative spirit.  It seems a negative spirit can take possession of someone, but as you may have noticed from exorcism even shown on the television the one ingredient necessary for their expulsion or entry is consent of the person they possess.

Consent can take many forms.  It doesn't have to be actually stating "Ok, yeah I guess you can have my body for a while" or in other situations "Sure.  Go ahead and take advantage of my generosity." or "Let me do all the housework while you lay there and watch tv again."  Most often it is more subtle and unconscious.   Our consent can be because we feel guilty about something and want to make up for it; It could be because somewhere we feel we "deserve" it or even that we may feel that it really is what we need to have in our lives to make us learn our lesson, but refuse to acknowledge it.  Really digging deep into our feelings and thoughts, will allow us to reveal the real reason it is there.

Maurie Pressman, M.D. wrote in his book "Living in the Supermind" about attacks from adverse forces.  In it, he quotes a very notable twin flame soul mate called Mother, the twin flame of Sri Aurobindo.  She is quoted as saying:

"Attacks from adverse forces are inevitable; you have to take them as tests on your way and go courageously through the ordeal.  The struggle may be hard, but when you come out of it, you have gained something, you have advanced a step.  There is even a necessity for the existence of the hostile forces.  They make your determination stronger, your aspiration clearer.

It is true, however, that they exist because you gave them reason to exist.  So long as there is something in you which answers to them, their intervention is perfectly legitimate.  If nothing in you responded, if they had no hold upon any part of your nature, they would retire and leave you."

So while there may or may not be negative spirits in your life, there may be negative situations or people.  For either, however, the reason for them being there is the same.  For in any of these situations it is that something that is within us that has ultimately given consent for it being there. Like the old saying goes "I cannot control what you do, but I can control how I react to what you do."  Learning about ourselves then and what is within us that allows the situation to bother us to begin with is the only way truly to send it on its way.