THE 7 GURU IN LIFE
1. The Experience Guru
Experience is an invaluable teacher regardless of your age and endeavors in life.Whether you’re 20, 40, 60, or 90, you have a lifetime of experience. Life has blessed you with challenges, knowledge, and discoveries that have shaped you. Treasure these. Acknowledge them. See them from a new perspective.
If you discount your experiences you miss out on the richness and wisdom that can only come from within. And nothing is more valuable to you than the truth that comes from your own personal actions.
2. The Observation Guru
We have eyes. We have ears. We have intuition. Through these senses we can learn to really see, hear, and feel. Sounds simple enough, yes, but let’s level it up a few notches.Make it a personal challenge to watch everything you do and notice the reasons for your actions. Notice the reactions you have. Notice the feelings without analyzing them. Just observe.
Observation is a teacher. This was the beginning of my biggest changes in life. I realized I had been looking but not seeing. Only when I decided to really observe did I finally see life and reach new understandings.
3. The Awareness Guru
Awareness comes after observation. Once I finally opened my inner eyes, I became aware.The awareness guru teaches you how to allow and forgive. It recognizes that we’re not alone and powerless. Once I allowed people to be people, and me to be myself, I could forgive everything and everyone. What a nice guru to have around!
Forgiveness sets you free. This liberation is the shedding of burdens you’ve perhaps carried for years or a lifetime.
4. The Fear Guru
Fear? How can this be a guru? Well, this is a tricky one. Certainly we can see that fear can protect us. It can keep us from exposing ourselves to dangers. So, for that reason, it’s a good guide to have.However, we fear so many other things. And many of these fears keep us immobilized and stop us from trying things that would add joy and excitement to our lives. Now for the other side of fear…
The fear guru teaches us because it’s a constant reminder of what lies on its opposite end. Nothing gets our attention more easily and quickly than fear. And through observation and awareness we can let this guru propel us into new and better adventures.
5. The Failure Guru
This is another guru we don’t want to acknowledge. Failure tends to demoralize us. But that’s because we don’t see it as the guru it is.When we elevate failure to guru status, suddenly a mistake becomes just another adventure in life. We see miscues as stepping stones, not just painful memories, along the journey to even more awareness, peace and joy. So, welcome failure.
6. The Talent Guru
Why do we so easily dismiss our own talents? Why do we see the strengths and talents of others so much more readily than our own?Once again, it’s likely due to our propensity for looking to external rather than internal things. Again, we look but we don’t really see. Our talents and gifts should be honored and used.
Take some time and list them. All of them. Even the little things make a huge difference. Feel good about them and start using them again. This will change your life.
7. The Love Guru
This is your biggest, most powerful guru. And it’s one you share with me, with your friends, with every human on the planet. Love binds us all.We’re often told to love ourselves, but here’s my take on this advice: It’s better to simply recognize that you are love. From this place, you can accept yourself for who and what you are. From here, love evolves into non-judgmental acceptance.
The love guru will change your life faster than all others combined.
