As human beings we tend to set up challenging situations in our lives and we do this both consciously and unconsciously, we then balance or fix the situation to our advantage. Usually it's the left brain that sets up the situation, encouraging the right brain to step up and really solve the situation from the larger perspective beyond that of the logical left brain. A Life of Quite Desperation can be the result of being locked into a world of duality. The left brain can be very logical, calculating and always evaluating and tends to hold all the hurt emotions. The right brain can be very arty, spiritual and can hold big concepts, but can avoid actually doing anything as it can hold ideas in perfection - not having a go for not wanting to spoil it. These different parts of the brain can fight one another in their separatist's ways. The ego tries to run the whole show rather than sharing it, and therefore often bites off more than it can chew. It runs its own program and can hold the body in a kind of suspended animation (as in the matrix movie.) In this program we have a virtual experience of sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, and intuition. We are not really in our bodies in the here and now. And so this can lead us to experience a sense of physical and emotional overwhelm, panic and exhaustion - it's as if we were drowning. Eventually some kind of paralysis sets in and we just give up so that our 'light' becomes barely perceivable. Fear becomes the main engine that drives this disabling way of living, bringing with it A Life of Quiet Desperation. We can then become trapped in a vicious triangle of (1) Separation from the source of things; which leads to the feeling that what we have is very (2) Scarce which of course in turn means we have to (3) Struggle to get or maintain what we have. This can lead us yet into another powerful triad of over-identification in 3D drama; that is to say we distract, deceive, and deny, the reality of what is real. We become very adversarial either directly or covertly with ourselves and others.
We go without, lost in this world of 3D distraction, deception, and denial; leading to drama which becomes our identity. Our distorted beliefs, perspectives, perceptions and unbalanced expectations, lead to judgment and condemnation. The encompassing pain just reinforces our false identity which we try to control and ease with drugs and addictions of all kinds. This unnatural way of being appears to be the norm these days: is it any wonder that crime, mental illness and heart disease are at an all-time high?
The Darwinian mindset: "The brain has been left free to do its Darwinian thing..." has created an increasingly individualistic and separatist approach to living, which is why most of us end up feeling over-pressurized and alone in our struggle for self advancement and survival. In our striving to become more and more capable of controlling our world, we seem to have become much less connected within and with it. ("The Hearts Code" - Paul Pearsall.)
The Soulmirror workshop can show you how to use any of the above qualities as a spring board, back into the space of "who you really are."