Frustration.....what is it really?

I have a dear friend who is experiencing and expressing a lot of frustration today.
I feel bad for him, because he's not usually like that.  He's my love and light friend. 

As always, it made me think....because that's what I do.  Frustration, we've all felt it.  I feel it on a lesser level ever time the lawn mower won't start, every time I try to drive through in intersection by my house and it's blocked by construction....but those are just passing things.  Sort of like gnats, you really can swat them away.

Sometimes though, there is that deeper frustration that things are just not right....things are out of alignment....things aren't happening.  So, what is it?  When I get very analytical about it, I find that my deepest times of frustration are my biggest times of expansion.  The frustration comes because my inner self is ready, ready for all of it and my conscious self isn't allowing it.  I'm blocking it for one reason or another.....ultimately, it usually comes down to fear.  Fear of change, fear of not changing.  Fear of staying where I am, fear of moving somewhere else (literally and figuratively).

I used to be afraid of the dark when I was little, but I couldn't sleep with the light on.  I know...quite impractical.  As always my Mom found a solution.  She found the tiniest little light that plugged into the outlet.  It didn't cast a shadow (that was the scary part from nightlights), it just glowed.  It glowed enough to give me comfort, but not enough to cast long ominous shadows. 

So now, that's the key to solving the frustration.....releasing the fear....sometimes it's as simple as saying, "I am not afraid, I know there are good things coming to me."  It's finding that glow....focusing on it and allowing it to melt away the frustration. 

The glow comes in so many forms, but it's always rooted in simple happiness.  Finding that quiet spot, that well composed tune, that perfect twisty highway, that moment of quiet in your soul that simply glows on it's own.

So there you have it.....swat away the gnats....they're always going to be there, but in the grand scheme of things they're small and insignificant.  For the real frustration, embrace the glow, release the fear.