Can't solve problems ?

Glorious morning!

Today’s quote that we will expand on together is from Albert Einstein.

“We can not solve our problems with the same thinking that created them “

Now this one can get us thinking, yes?

Albert Einstein was born in 1879 in Germany and died in 1955. He was a theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. He is best known for developing the theory of relativity. He also received the nobel prize in physics in 1921. I’m thinking he knew a bit about problem solving.

What his quote says to me, makes me think about karma. Karma is how one's influence operates. Let’s say you were told not to touch a hot stove and decided to do your own thing and touch it anyway, well,  you get burned. Our own thoughts create our actions, and in turn create our reality. Whether we think good or bad thoughts, the outcome has the same rules. You get what you give. Sometimes it's instant karma and sometimes it takes longer. Whatever the case may be, if we have created a problem in our life and we do not examine how we created it and take responsibility, we can easily add to the problem. We can even repeat the same problems over and over which I think the quote is suggesting. If we look at our problems as a teacher, then we can not only find out how we created it but the lesson behind it.

Personally, I feel this planet is an earth school where we come to learn as much as we can, to keep expanding. Let’s look into some suggestions to support how I feel about the quote. When I was young, I started to take money from my older siblings so I could go to the candy store and buy candy. ( I had a candy store like 8 houses down from my house ) I would eventually hear them getting upset when they couldn't find their money. They would eventually come up to me asking “ Dawn, did you come into my room and take my money from my drawer? “ I would deny it for fear of getting in trouble. This scenario went on for a while. They all started to kind of realize it was me but had no proof. I never got in trouble because I would deny it. They all started to not only lock their rooms but started calling me a thief and didn't trust me. My source of buying candy at the candy store often had stopped and I ended up not only with candy withdrawals LOL, but I felt a different energy coming from my brothers of resentment, resentment for the fact that I took what belonged to them and resentment that my father believed me and I got away with it. So the problem I created, made my life worse for myself even though I had initially had instant gratification from eating a ton of sugar. My brothers didn't even want to be around me. Well as karma would have it, one day some years later, I had 20 dollars that I had hid in my room for safe keeping. Days later when I went to retrieve the money, it was not there. I was FURIOUS. Totally forgetting how furious my brothers were when their money went missing, I was ranting and raving all over the house , SOMEONE TOOK MY MONEY! I went to my father and there was nothing he could do because there was no proof that anyone took it. I was not happy to say the least. Here is the worst feeling of all that I got, when I went back to my room and was cleaning up, I found the 20 dollars. I had hid it in another spot that I didn't recall. Now I was left with totally knowing how my brothers felt when I took their money and I felt terrible. It was not fun to experience having your money stolen even though it wasn't. Had it really been stolen I could very easily have stayed angry and resentful and never came to realize of the problem I created in my life just a couple years earlier. Me eventually finding my money made my brothers look like good guys instead of bad guys. I wanted to be beholden like that in their eyes, so I never took anything from them again.

Moral of the story, I created a problem that made me get treated like the thief that I was, had I not admitted guilt or felt the guilt of stealing, I might still think it’s ok to take things that don't belong to me. I changed the way my brothers saw me and treated me by stopping the very thing that created it. I am grateful for the lesson. I am a better person today because of the ugly mistakes I made.

How about you? Do you have things that you have done in the past that have never been rectified by a new solution? Do you struggle to see and admit problems you have created for yourself? I can help bring clarity to you. Make a free discovery call today. Peace be with you, Dawn 

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