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One of the first mentions of conflict in my NIV translation of the Hebrew Bible I found is in the story of Abram and Lot. Abram and Lot were moving together from the lands of Egypt, Bethel, and Ai. They both had plenty of flocks, herds and tents. However, the land Abram and Lot settled on couldn’t support all that they owned collectively. Abram and Lot could not stay together and thrive individually. Abram and Lot quarreled with one another, trying to find a solution to the herding conflict they now had. In addition to what they owned, they also had competition from the Canaanite and Perizzites that lived in the land. Abram went to Lot and asked for the two to remove their conflict, between the two of them and their herders, due to them being close relatives. Abram questions Lot if the land before them could be his, and suggests that they part ways. Abram suggests Lot goes left and he goes right, or vice versa, so they didn’t limit resources to both their flocks, herds and tents.

There’s a lot more I could get into in the rest of the story, but I want to focus on conflict for this season. Though we are not given any details about the emotional states of Abram and Lot, I would like to imagine there was some sadness, fear and most importantly anger between the two relatives about leaving one another, what will happen to their possessions, and why one may be more well off than the other. In regard to anger, and the desire for their possessions to flourish, I would like to believe this conflict wasn’t an obstacle that Abram and Lot had to fight through, but an opening to new lives for both of them, to prosper in what is sacred to them.

I believe there is a slightly paradoxical dilemma in conflict, where negative emotions can possibly lead to positive opportunities. I believe in times of intense anger, brought out through conflict, can lead to profound transformation in our individual lives. In some religious traditions I am familiar with, peace with all is promoted more than conflict, praising one side of the coin while shunning the other. However, I believe conflict can be a sign of deep relationships with oneself and with others. I believe conflict can be an avenue for a sense of clarity, with one’s internal desires and desires between two people. I believe conflict can help a person reframe their experiences, based on the perspective they have in understanding their personality and their strengths, or as I would like to say, one’s spirit. In this blog, I would like to explore how conflict, even conflict rooted in anger or a more intense wrath can be seen as a form of worship or develop into a form of worship.

Exploring Conflict

I have mentioned the documentary series, “Escaping Twin Flames” in previous blogs, and would like to look at it once again from an ulterior perspective. In the documentary, the teachers of twin flame connections taught that these twin flame connections were mirrors of two individuals, reflected against each other, providing the conflict everyone desires in a partner. However, what I think was one aim of the documentary is to display how the ideology surrounding twin flames, ignited more conflict than it did comfort, not even just within the relationship of the couple, but the relationships of everyone involved. Spirits were left in strife, confused by the comfort they were supposed to feel instead of conflict.

In the Highest Self Podcast, Sahara Rose has a conversation with Oceana about Twin Flames¹. Sahara opens up the podcast discussing her genuine belief she believes she’s on, the path of being a love goddess². Sahara points out this is not dependent on her relationship status, but on her honoring of love, universal love³. Sahara has spent a lot of her time contemplating love, learning about different experiences of twin flames, past lives, soulmates and karmic relationships⁴. In addition to these types of relationships, Sahara has also looked at the psychological sides of trauma bonding, and how people normalize and replicate their childhood in their relationships through attachment styles⁵. Sahara loves looking at the whole picture of love, both from the science and spirituality perspectives⁶. Sahara reiterates she’s been familiar with the twin flames concept for some time, and in her past relationships, she thought they were twin flame relationships⁷. However, after reflection, Sahara has never felt like her soul was in another person’s body, because she never would have broken up with them⁸. Sahara, recognizing that she has never felt that, decided to believe they could possibly be her soulmate⁹. Sahara sought out readings to help clarify her thoughts, and some people told her she would not meet her twin flame in this lifetime¹⁰. Sahara took this information, while also hearing others say everyone has a twin flame, leaving her confused and going down rabbit holes about her past relationships¹¹.

Sahara and Oceana navigate through the rest of the podcast discussing their own understanding, experiences, and perspectives. Though Sahara had some internal conflict about whether she has met her twin flame or will meet her twin flame, we learn about how she has grounded herself in her understanding of different relationships and attachment styles. Sahara recommends and promotes her own journaling practice prompts to discern the pathway on their own to become the best version of themselves. I would recommend a similar practice, one that allows each individual to detect the wrestle they have within themselves and with others in relationships. Additionally, I believe engaging with different versions of intentional breathing with mantras to help affirm the person you want to become, possibly opening a pathway for you to connect deeper with one’s own childhood experiences and the trauma bonds they create with new connections with others. Lastly, I would recommend a different form of fasting, a fasting from reacting immediately, taking intentional time to not label things immediately, but to let our relationships with ourselves and others adapt with further understanding and insight from those we trust around us, who speak life into our lives.

Reactive Conflict

Speaking of reactionary behavior, I believe we miss opportunities for conflict to lead us to growth when we rush to box subjects into our current understanding. I believe we are all on a spectrum of spirituality, which is intertwined with different levels of emotional spectrums, influencing our spiritual paths. With that being said, I believe that in certain times of life, each of us are more inclined to be driven by certain emotions. One of these emotions that I believe are core to how we develop passions and sentiments is anger, possibly having the volatility to impact our motives and contributions to one’s own world. I believe, depending on one’s development, certain people can be more reactive to certain core emotions, to anger, in ways that can lead them to be overwhelmed in which internal instinct, which internal conflict, to quell. I believe that everyone can benefit from incorporating a deeper contemplative or meditative practice to thrive in internal and external conflicts, allowing them to align more with the world they want to create for oneself, and ultimately become the best version of themselves.

On the Sadhguru Podcast, Sadhguru teaches a lesson on what type of people should practice mindful meditation¹². Responding to a prompt from an audience member, Sadhguru shares one of the basic instructions when initiating into a meditative practice is to never become a senior meditator¹³. Sadhguru believes this is important because seniority is a very wicked problem and believes everyone is doing this¹⁴. Sadhguru relates this to one’s parents, and how their only qualification for being a parent is coming a few years earlier than their child, and they act like they know everything¹⁵. Sadhguru continues, parents have the same problems that their children have, yet they act like they know everything¹⁶. Sadhguru shares an experience of a child going to college, and how there is one idiot who joins one year earlier than you, he is a senior, and this senior wants to beat and abuse this child, symbolizing the culture of many educational insititutions¹⁷. The qualification of this senior is that he joined one year earlier than the child¹⁸. Sadhguru reiterates his point to never become a senior meditator because mediation is an aspect in one’s life, not based on the accumulations of one’s life¹⁹. Sadhguru gives a hypothetical, where one is playing a musical instrument for 25 years²⁰. This musician would be respected because of how experience plays out today²¹. Sadhguru continues, here and there they might play some nice notes, but for the rest of their time, the audience will have to suffer²². Sadhguru believes that music can be a great joy and a great suffering, and their experience matters²³. However, Sadhguru believes meditation is not measured by experience, but by willingness²⁴.

Sadhguru opens up his question by comically attacking the praise we give to those with experience. Sadhguru believes seniority and experience don’t always equate to better, rather they can make life more mundane, cause no matter the activity or the relationship, there will be joy and suffering in the event. Furthermore, Sadhguru believes the more experiences one has, the more the individual feels they are supposed to know more than a less senior individual. Sadhguru believes the power that resides in meditation is the ability to transcend time and space, and once one ascribes to time and space they have become a labeler, residing in resentment towards whatever the activity is. I believe this is the radical ability mediation can provide for humans, the opportunity to escape the labels that box in the human experience. I believe mediation can transform human experience in a way that is not confined to our physical experiences of time and space, but spiritual experiences of emotional intensity and heat. I believe the miracle of mediation exists within the aligning of the mind and the spirit, allowing our conflicts to not strictly bother us, but alter pathways that lead to growth and a better life for each of us. I believe mediation can resolve conflicts in a way that surrounds you with pleasant, intelligent, and aware people, allowing people to act and not just react within a world that is beneficial to them.

Tying All Conflict Together

Find your wrath in conflict. Create an enemy within your spirit. Spark your catalyst with flare. Announce your breakthrough. Explore what is sacred to you. React to what’s beneath. Observe the surface. Inhale your name. Express your translation. Offer your origin. Echo your participation. Eternalize the divine. Mystify the alchemy within you. Turn towards your twin. Dive into the chaos of your soul. Dance with the chorus.

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