In longing for change you give change a chance. Keep your longing focused on the positive, with the needs of the many uppermost in your mind, even as you long for personal change. If you can include the many in your prayers, your own life of prosperous change will come about more fully and with lasting staying power. Change is bound to happen but you can keep it unfolding in a positive direction by the power of your thoughts, your prayers and your desires. Focus on the beauty you wish to experience, the abundance you wish for all to partake in and the health and happiness you wish everyone to enjoy.
Such desperate times! How is one to withstand such abuse, such tyranny, such display of hatred. How is one to hold onto love and kindness in such times. Well, these are the trying times when love and kindness are most important, most needed, and most urgently desired. Anchor yourself in knowing that they are the true hallmarks of being human. For the time that you are human, never let go of these true human attributes that express your true spiritual self. In remaining loving and kind, the true spiritual being that you are will shine through without you even trying.
As we often encourage, stay centered within as you weather the chaos without. There is no time like now to practice this kind of inner centering. As you take in the world outside of you, getting more and more upset, immediately turn inward to your inner calm self and know that within you is the capability to instantly pull away from the chaos and into calmness. This is a human capability that is often not used to full advantage. But in such times as you live in it’s a great tool. Use it every day to bring balance into your life. It’s the best trick for staying calm in the midst of chaos. Use it wisely, not to escape reality but to balance it out so that it does not overwhelm you. Let it calm and center you in knowing your own inner strength and ability to withstand anything.
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.
It’s not that hard to be human if you keep in touch with your greater self who knows everything about you, if you stay connected to the truth of your wholeness. If you can keep a good perspective on life, and don’t get too overly attached to what is going wrong in your life, you will soon discover that life has a tendency to allow you to easily work through what bothers you, if you give it a chance. Often you want to fix things immediately, but sometimes it’s actually better to let them sit within you, especially as you drift off to sleep and ask for guidance. Watch how your dreams support you in figuring things out when you give them a chance, when you pay attention, and when you then carry out the suggestions from your dreaming self. You might discover that your dreaming self is a lot smarter than you are!
