'Frustration' Articles
Our problem with frustration is actually a problem with beliefs. Frustration = resistance. It’s not just disagreement between your beliefs and reality. It’s effort on your part to deny, resist and act as if your belief was real, and when we do that can we keep our focus on the original spirit of that belief? Can we resist a conditions reality and make our belief manifest?
We can know peace without frustration when we understand frustration for what it is, and let that inform us about human nature. Then we can choose how to find balance within ourselves. Take this life that was always yours and know that you do know what to do. Trust the higher order by whatever name you call it that didn’t do you any harm by letting you be here.
“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” Leon Trotsky (Russian Communist theorist and agitator, a leader in Russia’s October Revolution in 1917. 1879-1940)
“Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want” Irving Kristol
All About Belief
Most people keep frustration at a distance in their awareness. They just try to deny the feeling and function anyway. Anyone care to tell me how well this works? It builds. Yes, because the state is very real and sort of like fragmentation on a hard drive it can have a cumulative effect. Not well at all generally. Usually a temporary solution to a deep need requiring resolution. Neither yielding to it nor holding it back work for me. Actually, the idea that you shouldn’t yield to it is a common trap, but it’s also half true. Frustration isn’t the… Seek More
Our Decision
We can see very deeply the qualities in the world, but that’s not where our decision resides. Our decision is “How do I live with this situation?” Is there any other decision really? Is there any decision you could make that has any other meaning? We resist a situation when we believe we cannot live in it. Frustration is a manifestation of the fight or flight response. This instinct manifests by degrees or it would be crippling. It’s fortunate that it can be frustration and it isn’t always heart pounding fear. But whenever we are frustrated it has nothing to… Seek More
What is Frustration?
I will try to be patient with the topic. The topic is frustration, and it’s a condition that people tend to trip over a lot. What do you think folks? Definitely. On a regular basis. The worst one, I think. People generally see frustration as something caused from “out there”, but can anyone tell me what out there is of its own nature frustrating? Seriously though, can anyone name even one event that of its own accord is inherently frustrating? Objectively so? Hmm.. How about Second Life avatars that won’t stop animating? Well, it’s a condition of his avatar, but… Seek More
The World Receives
I know someone who agreed to live in a place that is killing her to get a job. Her health has declined horribly. Is she frustrated, and if so how would it be about the environment? In order for her to earn a living, she has to be subjected to harm? This is her belief, yes. She is in a soul-ripping place, but feels she must stay until the contract is up or forfeit the money, etc. No pain, no gain? It’s a very common belief, but really a half truth. I hope she comes through it stronger. It is… Seek More
Take This Life
How to reconcile interpersonal frustrations? How do we live with a world that still believes in frustration? Any ideas? Communication. Meaningful communication. Yes, and there are many levels of that, but what are we going to communicate of meaning? Our actions / reactions in relationship. You can talk until you’re ‘blue in the face’ to some people who want to hold onto their frustration. So yes, be an example in our actions. But there is a simple understanding to be had. Ever hear the saying that you can’t give what you don’t have? It’s just blunt logic. You can’t act… Seek More
