{"id":33238,"date":"2013-10-31T08:17:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T12:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=33238"},"modified":"2013-11-17T02:42:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T07:42:51","slug":"if-i-want-to-be-free-of-a-situation-i-must-first-love-it-as-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-i-want-to-be-free-of-a-situation-i-must-first-love-it-as-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"If I want to be free of a situation, I must first love it as it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/never-doubt-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33250\" alt=\"never doubt copy\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/never-doubt-copy.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>I was once irked that an &#8216;interloper&#8217; had appeared out of nowhere and brought drama into my neighborhood. I knew I&#8217;d attracted it. I knew there was a reason I had to have it literally right in my face. I also knew that the longer it irked me, the longer it&#8217;d be there. \u00a0I know that if I want to be free of a situation, I must first learn the\u00a0lesson from it, and I must love it as it is. \u00a0As soon as I remembered that, I went on a bomb-with-love campaign. I meditated on the feeling of love, that we all seek love and connection and we feel joy when we find it. <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=27200\">I blessed the situation<\/a> and all of us. I did that as a daily practice as I did <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=27324\">my daily healing bench sessions<\/a>.\u00a0Then I eventually stopped thinking about it. The second I released resistance, <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=33155\">they moved<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you\u2019ve been given, the door will open<\/em> \u2013Rumi<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-i-want-to-be-free-of-a-situation-i-must-first-love-it-as-it-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=If I want to be free of a situation, I must first love it as it is&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-i-want-to-be-free-of-a-situation-i-must-first-love-it-as-it-is\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-i-want-to-be-free-of-a-situation-i-must-first-love-it-as-it-is\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-i-want-to-be-free-of-a-situation-i-must-first-love-it-as-it-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=If%20I%20want%20to%20be%20free%20of%20a%20situation,%20I%20must%20first%20love%20it%20as%20it%20is&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-i-want-to-be-free-of-a-situation-i-must-first-love-it-as-it-is\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was once irked that an &#8216;interloper&#8217; had appeared out of nowhere and brought drama into my neighborhood. I knew I&#8217;d attracted it. I knew there was a reason I had to have it literally right in my face. I also knew that the longer it irked me, the longer it&#8217;d be there. \u00a0I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33238"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33684,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33238\/revisions\/33684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}