Contrast: Finding the Sweet Spot
"As you diminish contrast, you diminish your ability to decide, and as
you diminish your ability to decide, you diminish your ability to focus,
and as you diminish your ability to focus, you do away with your reason
for existing."
- Abraham-Hicks.
I had been turning in circles for a long time before I discovered Abraham. If you have not done so already, listen to their free CD (online). It's practically an "Owner's Manual" for human beings.
Abraham talks a lot about this concept of contrast. Contrast is all the different experiences in your life that provoke a strong emotional response in you: You hate it, you love it.
Contrast is useful because it helps us clarify what we want. And when we know what we want, we can go for it. By the time your car breaks down on the highway for the third time, you become QUITE clear that you want a newer car...Contrast triggers evolution.
Humans also enjoy a healthy dose of contrast. Imagine going to see a movie where everyone is perfectly fine. Nothing ever happens to them. No intense emotions one way or the other... Compare this to day time soaps or action movie (very popular in the US) where everything happens to everyone and no one is ever happy for long.
Which leads us to that "sweet spot" of contrast. Abraham mentions that without any contrast at all, we loose our reason for living (evolution). But too much contrast can lead us straight to depression and suicide. That's not much fun either.
On a daily basis, we are looking for the perfect blend of contrast that keeps us reaching for more things to be happy about (evolution) while also being comfortable enough to avoid feeling overwhelmed (depression).
In my work as an Intuitive Counselor, I constantly see people who think they would be so much happier without any contrast at all. And yet, without contrast there is no purpose for life, no evolution.
Part of my work is to bring that "sweet spot of contrast" where you feel really good about your life and yet you know that contrast will happen. By being aware of this process, we make sure you spend the least amount of time being stuck in contrast before swiftly moving up towards evolution. I'm just a shortcut :)
Elise Lebeau, M.Sc.
Intuitive Counselor
www.EliseLebeau.com
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