A warrior’s intent is solid. A warrior uses decisions and choices to achieve that solidity of intent. For it is a warrior’s overall intent to flow through life like a stream of energy, merging, spending and receiving, giving and taking of all that life offers, as is appropriate to maintain life for as long as it lasts.
A warrior’s process is one of learning how to navigate with intentions solidly focused on a path of heart, with generosity, curiosity, and compassion. And yet, a warrior is also intent upon achieving enough awareness and energy to seamlessly flow in and out of worlds, to travel fluidly beyond the turmoil of this world into the world of energy. And so a warrior seeks always the means and currents of energy that will best serve this purpose.
But without goodness of heart and love for all beings none of a warrior’s efforts will matter, for a true warrior, though personally intent has no personal agenda except to learn how energy works. For a warrior knows that everything is energy. And to understand that is to truly understand how to change the self and the world, perception by perception, with love for all beings who must struggle through life on earth, flowing and being tossed about by their own stream of circumstances.
We are all beings in the same churning waters of life, trying to figure it out. A warrior has compassion for all other beings, for ultimately it’s all about discovering that life is an energetic reality, and that all beings have a purpose and a role to play in the stream of life!
To change means to confront the uncomfortable. Once the uncomfortable becomes comfortable it’s time to change again. A warrior uses the uncomfortable as a tool. A warrior is aware that when things become too comfortable it’s a signal to get up and move into a new position, whether mental, physical, emotional or spiritual. All change is good! A warrior knows that to change one thing is the catalyst to creating a whole new self and a whole new world, and so a warrior does not fear change but embraces it!
Beings on the other side are trying to get our attention all the time. Jeanne has told us this numerous times and Chuck recently read me a passage from Robert Monroe’s Far Journeys insinuating the same thing.
“What if a fly pestering us is just another being trying to get our attention?” Chuck wondered.
Hard to get a fly to pose, but this little wasp did just fine… – Photo by Jan Ketchel
That same day, as I took an early morning walk, a fly appeared. My earlier conversation with Chuck immediately came to mind. Was this a being attempting contact? The fly pestered me, buzzing in my face.
“Okay,” I said to the fly. “What are you trying to tell me?” It bumped repeatedly into my forehead, right at the level of the third eye. “Stay connected to my psychic self, to my intuitive perceptions? Okay, I will!” And with that the fly buzzed off and I was left in peace.
Later that morning, I struggled with having to do a chore that I felt obligated to do, mostly out of guilt. Was it right to do, or was it just my guilt driving me to do it? I waited. Something didn’t feel right. A part of me implied that waiting was the right action. Every time I thought about this chore I paused; I waited.
After a while, I flipped a coin. Was I being avoidant or should I just do the chore? The coin said no, don’t do it. Should I do it later in the day? I asked the coin. No, don’t do it later, the coin answered. Should I do it at noon? I finally asked. No, the coin said. It seemed that no matter what I asked the answer was going to be no.
I am aware that there is a part of me that knows things that my conscious self does not know. This part doesn’t act hastily. I’ve learned to pay attention though, because it has proven to be right on so many occasions. The fly that had buzzed in my face earlier in the day was reminding me of this part of myself, the psychic self, a part that we all have. It’s just waiting for us to discover it, just as the passage we were reading in Monroe’s book suggested that other beings are trying to get our attention too.
I resolved to pay attention to the message from the fly, to my psychic self, and the coin. I didn’t act. I just waited. In a little while, the reason for waiting came. I didn’t have to do the chore because someone else, who really should have done it, phoned to let me know it would be done.
Trying to remain open, like the first daisy to bloom this year… – Photo by Jan Ketchel
Had I done it out of guilt I would have pandered to an old part of myself. Instead I sat in the uncomfortable tension of waiting and faced my reasons for feeling guilty. In the end, I discovered that had I acted impulsively, just doing what I normally do out of guilt, I would have been guilty of an old behavior! Instead, I felt so relieved that I didn’t, that I paid attention to the fly, to the coin and to what my psyche was telling me. In the end, by waiting I experienced what the fly seemed to be insinuating, guidance IS available if you are open to the experience of it.
In the end, I learned two things: to listen to my psychic self and that guilt is no guide!
Do not stand in awe of changing times but consciously choose to change with them, to embrace the awesomeness of change. It is in such times of outer turmoil that inner turmoil finds its reflection and that which shows itself to be the answer outerly may indeed prove to be the inner answer as well.
Sometimes it is simply time to call a stop to old ideas and behaviors no longer helpful. Sometimes it is right to abruptly switch ideals long held yet with no appropriateness to present reality. Sometimes it’s the right time to change.
Changing times are now, calling for sacrifice yet also calling for the glory of kindness and compassion. To love another as the self is the first order of business now. Begin there.
A warrior is always aware of time passing and that there is no time to dawdle. A warrior uses every moment to learn about life and the self in the process of becoming aware. Gaining awareness is the warrior’s main goal, for only with awareness is there any sense in being a warrior at all. Without awareness a warrior is nothing, just another pea in the pod. Awareness grants entry to what lies beyond the familiar. It is the gateway to greater experience and greater understanding. A warrior knows this, and so a warrior uses time to full advantage. There is no time like the present to begin a new journey. Awareness awaits!
