When we experience difficult or unpleasant situations in our lives we should work to eliminate the problem at its source. When we pull weeds from our garden without its root, it starts growing back even stronger — if we do not work to eliminate problems from their roots, they will appear again and again in different ways.
For example, if you have a team member at work that is doing something ineffecient, two NON-effective actions you could take would be to either leave the team, or approach the person and talk with them about the problem. These options, while they may work in the short term, will not work to ultimately resolve the problem because they do not effectively address the source of the problem. This is like cutting the weed without removing the root.
We can practice finding and taking effective action to address the root by looking at our relationships and experiences showing up in our lives presently, as a reflection to guide our effective eradication of the various roots in our lives. According to the ancient yogic philosphy of Karma, what is showing up now in our lives is a direct reflection of what we have done in the past. Simply, following the above example, by experiencing an inefficent team member, at some point in our lives we had done something ineffecient. Therefore, the action that best eradicates the root is to avoid (following this specific example) acting inefficiently. This is removing the weed of inefficiency showing up in our lives in various ways at its root cause.
Just as we have created from the past the lives and situations we are presently experience, we can move forward in a more conscious way to create the lives and situations we would like in our lives by taking actions (planting the seeds) that will sprout the outcomes we are looking for!
Many blessings on creating conscious fruitful experiences!
This post was inspired in gratitude and love by my yoga teachers Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnudevananda, Nirmala and Satyadev. www.atman-yoga.org. www.sivananda.com