Awkward as it may be, there is no going back. Far better to admit than to fight it. Resistance is futile. Get in alignment with a new world, with a new way of living, being, and doing. Get in alignment with the fact that outer events are beyond your control. You have no say. But you do have say within yourself. You have the ability to face what you are really feeling, without hiding things from yourself. You have the ability to make decisions within yourself, even if you feel stifled outwardly. You have the ability to think and feel for yourself, to let your spirit be appropriately present in all you do. You have the opportunity, every day, to be positive, optimistic and helpful. You have the opportunity every day to be as fully responsible as possible within the limits of life. You are a powerhouse, no matter what comes to interrupt the flow of life.
Find places of solace, within yourself but also in the comfort of your home, in the serenity of your garden, or in a special place in the woods. Even city dwellers can find quiet places to sit and tune out the world. There are plenty of times in the day when you might wish you could go to your special place. If you can’t do it in reality, then do it in your imagination. There is nothing better than imagination to realize just how powerful you are and to experience what you are fully capable of.
Even as the old still tries to overtake you, brush it away and firmly declare that you are leaving it behind. With such definiteness turn your thoughts of the old to thoughts of the new that you wish for yourself and others. Turn your energy up to a good vibration that is ready to receive rather than fight, to a vibration that is on a par with the vibration of the Universe that grants your wishes. Stay in that good vibration. Let it permeate you so that the Universe that grants all wishes will feel your attunement and respond to it in like manner. All that is good is just waiting for you to tune into it.
Every day is an opportunity to shift your perspective, to allow yourself to let in some new information, some new thoughts, some new creative energy. To shift is simply a matter of saying something new and encouraging to yourself, for instance. Perhaps you notice that you most often think negatively about yourself and your life. Why not insert some positive affirmations into your thoughts, change what you say to yourself so that you only hear that which is helpful, positive and endearing. Why not give it a try today. And when the old negative words pop up, as they surely will, gently push them away with a few positive thoughts. Keep doing this and before long you will notice that most of your old negative thoughts are gone and the new positive ones have taken their place. Isn’t that wonderful!
Stepping down from a small ladder, I misjudged the final step. Suddenly I was falling backwards. I was able to turn slightly, allowing my wrist and hand to somewhat break the fall so I did not land flat on my back. But I hit the ground hard nonetheless.
Immediately, my consciousness flew to The Mother, Aurobindo’s guide and partner. She had painstakingly made clear that pretty much anything could be healed if we could fully gather our awareness and focus it on the experience at hand, in the current moment, before it was defined.
I grabbed my wrist and hand before the expected pain arrived and incessantly told myself, “My hand and wrist are healing; my hand and wrist are healed.” The boomerang wave of expected pain did not arrive. I kept repeating my suggestion.
Soon, I couldn’t be sure which hand had broken the fall, since both hands felt identically calm and agile. The same still holds true, as if no fall had ever happened. Funny, Jan heard the fall from a distance but encountered no voice in crisis, hence moved on without feeling the need to check.
The critical factor in this definition of life experience is to assume control of defining it, before the absolutely expected outcome arrives. The Mother pointed out, that though one could still heal if the expected definition of pain and disjointedness arrived, it is so much more difficult to unseat a ruling expectation once it has set in.
We have all learned a myriad of cause and effect reactions to body mishaps in physical life. The subconscious mind readily offers its knowledge to consciousness as it prepares it to experience the consequence of its defined predicament. That is habit.
What I was able to do was seize hold of that energy and redirect its mission to total healing. The subconscious was all ears and it changed the expected outcome of my fall.
For the record, this was but a small three-step ladder. This was not a dramatic fall from an extension ladder. The rational mind has plenty of reasons to disavow anything special in this minor fall. Nor do
I claim any specialness in this instantaneous healing. However, it is a fact, a fact of my life.
The time we are in is wrought with extreme polarization. The Law of Opposites enables us to differentiate and define ourselves as specific personalities based on our beliefs. The rupture to our wholeness, which is the state of the union of those opposites, that we are currently experiencing, does have the enlightening effect of challenging the certainty we previously held of how energy must play out according to established order. Anything is possible.
In fact, we have free will. On the mental plane, we can indeed direct our intent, as we will, to manifest material results. Take advantage of the possibility of defining life in new ways as we traverse this time of breakdown. Direct it towards the greater good. Seize the moment before it seizes you.
