{"id":264,"date":"2014-12-28T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/becausethisisyourlife\/?p=264"},"modified":"2014-12-28T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T22:52:10","slug":"how-humble-of-a-person-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/becausethisisyourlife\/2014\/12\/how-humble-of-a-person-are-you.html","title":{"rendered":"How Humble Of A Person Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you think of blood, sweat, and tears what comes to mind?<\/p>\n<p>Pain?<\/p>\n<p>Persistence?<\/p>\n<p>Perseverance?<\/p>\n<p>Working hard?<\/p>\n<p>Does the thought of a rock group come to mind?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not&#8230;right?<\/p>\n<p>That is&#8230;until now.<\/p>\n<p>Because Blood, Sweat, and Tears is the name of a music group that formed in the late 1960&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Their most popular song is called Spinning Wheel.<\/p>\n<p>And within this song are the lyrics, &#8220;What goes up must come down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s an important reason I&#8217;m bringing this up because it has to do with you and the way your life plays out.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It relates to how you handle different situations throughout your life.<\/p>\n<p>And along with this comes the question:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How humble of a person are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Flying high again-<\/strong> The meaning of the song &#8220;Spinning Wheel&#8221; centers around the idea of &#8220;not getting too caught up&#8221; because everything comes full circle in life.<\/p>\n<p>And this ties right in with the song lyric &#8220;what goes up must come down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also right at the core of how humble of a person you are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Especially as it relates to getting too &#8220;up&#8221; when things seem to always be going your way.<\/p>\n<p>This can and does happen when you attract more money into your life.<\/p>\n<p>It can be when you get into a new relationship.<\/p>\n<p>It happens to people who have their own businesses.<\/p>\n<p>And it also occurs in any area of your life.<\/p>\n<p>Now think about when someone (or possibly even yourself) had something new and &#8220;exciting&#8221; come into your life&#8230;something beyond what you&#8217;ve had before.<\/p>\n<p>What typically happens?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have a tendency to brag about it&#8230;become ecstatic about it&#8230;tell everyone about it&#8230;and in some cases even become &#8220;cocky&#8221; and &#8220;puffed up&#8221;&#8230;while taking on the &#8220;I&#8217;ve arrived&#8221; mentality.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s face it&#8230;you&#8217;ve done this at some point in your life&#8230;and so have I.<\/p>\n<p>And all of these can&#8212;and quite often do&#8212;has you &#8220;flying high&#8221;&#8230;feeling on top of the world.<\/p>\n<p>And as outrageous as this will sound&#8230;from the perspective of what takes place in the brain&#8230;is the exact same thing that occurs during a &#8220;drug high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And what happens as a result of any &#8220;high?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You end up being &#8220;brought down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is what happens in the relationship when someone goes around and brags about it&#8230;something &#8220;strange&#8221; happens and the relationship ends.<\/p>\n<p>The same with attracting that large sum of money&#8230;someone comes into your life and so called &#8220;rips you off&#8221;&#8230;or a series of events come into your life and you find yourself having to pay for something that seems to have &#8220;come out of the blue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you have your own business&#8230;bragging about making $3000 while you slept last night&#8230;or having 30 new clients. Then what happens? All of a sudden someone cancels&#8230;wants their money back&#8230;you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Now of course these situations happen in varying degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The more &#8220;sky high&#8221; you become when that something &#8220;new&#8221; and &#8220;exciting&#8221; comes into your life&#8230;the higher the probability you have of something &#8220;weird&#8221; coming into your life that is likely to take it away.<\/p>\n<p>And most people don&#8217;t think about this because it&#8217;s easy when everything seems to be going your way to not want to think of the so called &#8220;downside&#8221; or &#8220;negative&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But then guess what comes up? The very thing(s) you didn&#8217;t want.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you overcome this?<\/p>\n<p>You start by asking the question (and then answering)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How humble of a person are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now before I get to that, let&#8217;s take a look at the opposite of what I just said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Bows and arrows-<\/strong> Of course there&#8217;s also the flip side to being &#8220;sky high&#8221;&#8230;and that is when things aren&#8217;t going your way. This can also include when people challenge and criticize you. And this occurs at all levels of life&#8230;ranging from the most &#8220;successful&#8221; to those that are so called &#8220;not successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And just like the meaning of &#8220;Spinning Wheel&#8221;, the idea here as well is to not get too &#8220;caught up&#8221; because everything comes full circle in life.<\/p>\n<p>Remember this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No matter what you do in life&#8230;no matter who you are&#8230;no matter how &#8220;successful&#8221; you are&#8230;always know that you&#8217;ll deal with both sides of life.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have people liking and disliking you&#8230;equally.<\/p>\n<p>People supporting and challenging you.<\/p>\n<p>People praising and criticizing you.<\/p>\n<p>Pleasure and pain.<\/p>\n<p>Peace and &#8220;war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Equally.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no escaping this.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll get those &#8220;bows&#8221; and &#8220;arrows&#8221; coming at you throughout your life.<\/p>\n<p>The question is&#8230;one&#8230;how do you deal with these situations?<\/p>\n<p>And two&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How humble of a person are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And just like it&#8217;s easy to &#8220;feel good&#8221; when everything is going your way&#8230;it&#8217;s just as easy to &#8220;feel bad&#8221;, &#8220;down&#8221;, and even &#8220;depressed&#8221; when things aren&#8217;t going your way.<\/p>\n<p>This again brings us back to the &#8220;Spinning Wheel&#8221;&#8230;and to not get too &#8220;caught up&#8221; because everything comes full circle in life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Your spinning wheel of life-<\/strong> In a subtle way the song &#8220;Spinning Wheel&#8221; is referring to being humble. Because after all, your ability to not get too &#8220;caught up&#8221;&#8230;since everything comes full circle in life&#8230;has to do with you being humble.<\/p>\n<p>Now back to the main question&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How humble of a person are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And along with this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What can you do to start&#8230;and maintain your humbleness throughout life?<\/p>\n<p>It begins by looking at how you handle the different situations in your life.<\/p>\n<p>Do you get &#8220;too up&#8221; when things go your way. Do you get &#8220;too down&#8221; when things don&#8217;t go your way?<\/p>\n<p>Are you trying to live a happy life&#8230;or are you living a fulfilled life?<\/p>\n<p>Are you relying on positive thinking&#8230;or balanced thinking?<\/p>\n<p>And yes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I understand how easy it can be to always look for the &#8220;positive&#8221;&#8230;to always want to &#8220;feel good&#8221;&#8230;to always want to be &#8220;happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And these are important.<\/p>\n<p>However&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also important to realize that this is just half of the picture when it comes to being a truly humble person.<\/p>\n<p>And in being that truly humbled person is where your inner magnificence and brilliance shines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the radiance you give off that people are drawn to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the backbone behind your authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s involved in your &#8220;spinning wheel of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Always remember&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You were put on this planet for a reason&#8230;to contribute tremendous amounts of value to the world through the uniqueness of who you are.<\/p>\n<p>And realizing your &#8220;humbleness to humanity&#8221; creates the ripple effect of your balanced energy that goes out into the world for everyone to see.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the driving force behind what you&#8217;re here to be, do, and have in your life.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the driving force behind how special of a person you are.<\/p>\n<p>So take the time each day to thank yourself for who you are and all that you do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Because you really do matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you think of blood, sweat, and tears what comes to mind? 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