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Meditation 10: What Will Others Say about You When You Are Gone?
- It is never too late to write a better script for your relationship. This last reflection is to be used once you have developed a better understanding of the virtues/atonement process and have demonstrated the ability to recognize the hurt that you are causing in your relationship. You may be afraid to ask the other person in your relationship the above question. You may not be afforded the chance to change the perceptions of some of the people you have hurt in your life; maybe they refuse to forgive your actions. This does not mean that you cannot use your unique qualities to benefit other people.
What abilities and attributes do you possess that would provide a benefit to another person? Picture yourself giving a part of you to another person and the reaction of the other person. In your meditation, visualize that you gave to this other person without condition-other than your seeing his positive response. Imagine how this person would interact with others in your absence. Visualize that he was uplifted by your contact and is now able to use his own attributes to benefit someone else. Many people who lack spirituality do not believe that they can make a difference in another person's life; they do not understand how this can spread out to positively impact many other people. Your negative or positive actions toward another person can stay embedded in that person's memory for the rest of his life. Do you remember who picked on you as a child? Do you remember an act of kindness by someone when you were a child? Are you beginning to see how important your actions are to the other people in your life?
As you utilize your talents in ways that demonstrate love, respect, and honesty toward another person, you will begin to rewrite your life's script. As you demonstrate these virtues in each of your relationships, you will touch the hearts of many and may never really come to understand the impact that you made in each of their lives. Once you begin to focus on your ability to give back to society, you will find meaning in your relationships.
© 2002 Jay Krunszyinsky
The resource this came from is my book, I'm Sorry: Repairing a Hurtful Relationship.
Publisher: Word Association Publishers
ISBN: 1-932205-02-0
November 11, 2002
Pages referenced 85-97