The tests of emotions can be large or small, tempting us to give in to them or lose control of them. Sometimes these tests are our karma's way of knocking on our door, as past actions returning to us for resolution in our present circumstances. Sometimes the initiation is a training. In school we get our lessons to master certain subjects. In real life it is no different, except that it is less theoretical and much more practical.
God wants us to master our lessons in the flow of energy, and He wants to make sure that we do so well. Because God will not give us more energy than we can hold in the chalices of our chakras and put to good use. Why do we want to have a reserve supply of energy? So that, when the need arises, we can send out the healing light of joy, freedom, peace, love, power, vision and wisdom from our chakras and our aura to others.
It is like taking out a loan. If we prove that we can use God's energy with wisdom for the good of others, He knows that His investment is safe. If we misuse that energy - by being angry or annoyed, for example - our supply will eventually be stopped because we have not shown that we can use it responsibly.
So when you are faced with the trials in life that seemingly have the intention of throwing you out of the saddle, it is because you have something good is doing and not something wrong. If we are committed to a path of spiritual growth, we can expect to be tested. As Booker T. Washington once said, "Success is not measured by the position a person has achieved in life, but rather by the obstacles overcome in trying to succeed."
That's what that puzzling verse we learned in Sunday School was about: " Consider it only joy, my brethren, when you come into all kinds of temptations, for you know that the testing of your faith brings about perseverance. But let that perseverance also be fully may working through, that you may be perfect and wholly sincere, and fall short in nothing."
"Difficulties are the way to immortality," says Lao Tzu,
and advises us to "face them calmly and openly, however they develop."
In the case of the solar plexus, our exams give us the opportunity to express our self-control. They give us the opportunity to show that our love for God - and our gratitude - for the precious life energy he pours out on us daily - is greater than our need to let off steam, even when someone else is throwing anger, aggression, fear or annoyance at us.
Source: Your seven energy centers by Elizabeth Clare Prophet and Patricia R. Sparado
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