No matter how much of a good heart you have, no matter how much you may want to serve others, there are going to be individuals who will treat you like dirt and think that you are an easy push-over and that you are stupid. They will tear you down; they will spread rumours about you all in an effort to crush you. However, do not allow the bad behaviour of others to stop you from helping and serving others. Those may not be the people you will serve, but there are others in the world who are deserving of what you have to offer. That doesn’t mean that if you see the people who are treating you badly in trouble in the street that you should walk past them. They are still human beings, so help them and then keep your life moving.
A few years ago, I remember I was helping someone and she turned to me and said, “Trudy-Ann, it is because you are too nice why people will always mess you up. (She used a more colourful term that is unmentionable here.)” Help me out here. Here I was helping her and I wasn’t even working and that is the remark she made to me. It was then that I understood completely how an individual’s heart can be turned to stone. Naturally, I was very upset, not because I wanted to be appreciated, but because I saw the wretchedness that exists in humanity.
Yes, my heart bleeds when I see humans being cruel to other human beings. In order to respond to her I had to swallow the bile that was coming up in me. I said to her, “My dear, do you see me suffering because I’m helping others? Do you see me lacking for anything? Do I live in a broken down house, walking around with my head dirty and nappy and my clothes torn and worn?” She replied, “No.” I said to her that that was because my life is “Blessed and Highly Favoured”. I never heard from her until around eight months later. Yep, you guessed it. She needed another favour from me. This time I denied helping because I did not get a good energy and so I felt that I should protect my safety.
Personally, I cannot stand if someone does not have any food. I cannot sleep knowing that someone is going to their bed hungry. I know that when I help I’m reaping the benefits of my abundance and I’m storing up more abundance for myself in The Universe. There are people who will keep coming to you because they know that no matter what you will help them. They mistakenly take your kindness for weakness. They may be laughing at you behind your back talking about how stupid and weak you are. They may think that they are getting over on you and you are an idiot for not recognizing their motive.
What they don’t realize is that you see their motive, you see that they think they are using you, but that is not your concern. You are treating them as the human beings they are and not as something to be used and walked over. They also do not realize that what they mean as negative and destructive for you, you are using that as something powerful and motivating to help you build yourself up so that you can become stronger emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
Just because someone thinks they are taking advantage of you, it doesn’t mean that they are actually taking advantage of you. You know that no matter how much you help others your abundance will never dwindle. People may think they are taking something from you and they are leaving you barren with nothing. They do not realize that your abundance in The Universe is everlasting and never-ending. No earthly person can use up your abundance. No matter how much they think they are taking from you, your basket of abundance keeps on replenishing.
Years ago I was speaking to a male acquaintance regarding my business and how much I was charging individuals. It became a source of contention between us because I found it hard to charge for life lessons. Life lessons are free. I do not believe in gouging people of their money in order to line my pockets. If someone needs help and they do not have the money to pay for it, they should still receive the help.
Sadly, we live in a society where individuals have a “what’s in it for me” attitude. They do not seek to help others trusting that their rewards will come. They will use someone’s “suffering” and manipulate it in order to make money off those people so that they can line their pockets. Then they wonder why the world is so cold and that nothing is happening for them. I may never be filthy rich, however, I will always be wealthy in Universal abundance and blessings and we all will when we help from our heart.
That is why we need to help others from our heart and from a position of power. Helping others does not take away from our abundance nor does it cost anything to help others. Now that doesn’t mean you should sit there and allow others to treat you disgustingly. Command respect and others will know that they cannot and should not pass their place with you. Helping others does not mean that you should stand there and allow others to be rude and nasty to you.
There will be those who will refuse to respect your life and your boundaries and you can’t talk to them without them blaming you for being too sensitive. Those you need to remove yourself from without malice. Then there are those individuals whom you can talk to about their behaviour and they will apologize. Those you don’t need to remove yourself from. They may go behind your back and talk about you, but as long as you are not hearing it, then don’t let it bother you or stop you from helping. Even if you hear it back, don’t let it stop you from helping. If you need to say something to them and you wish to keep on having them in your life, then do so without malice. If not, then it is okay to keep your life moving away from them. Do not stop doing your work.
Not everyone has or believes in a spiritual level of living and thinking, therefore, if you are living a spiritual life then you will be able to help others and give of yourself wholeheartedly. You will be able to see beyond the behaviour of others and see that they have a good heart; they just got too caught up in desperation for money. Do not hold it against them. Still show them kindness. That is what it means to help others from a position of power rather than from a position of pain. Regardless of what others have done to you, said about you, do not let it create hatred in your heart. You can get angry; you are human so feel your feelings. Just because you are walking a Spiritual Journey, it doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t get angry. You are human, you have emotions and you have feelings. Get angry and then release it. That will prevent hatred from building up in your heart.
Do not let life make you become so numb and jaded that you can no longer feel anything when it comes to others treating other humans wretchedly. Never allow the behaviour of others to make you become unfeeling to the plight of humanity. Always seek out ways in which you can help others. Help until you can no longer help. When you are helping others, you do not need to show others how you are helping. You have nothing to prove to humans. Work in tandem with your Higher Self and you will always be guided to where your help is needed.
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