Time to observe your good traits as well as your bad
Do you often check in with yourself with
kindly discernment? For myself, I have always done a lot of work around areas
of my personality that I considered negative and patterns that had a tendency
to depress me. I had not questioned those that gave joy and peace. For example,
I have always looked for the good in people and the gift in situations. I never
give up on the potential of a situation or hope for the people involved,
including myself. One of my favourite clearings down the years has been to sit
in my eye-shaped room (the vesica pices – a shape created by overlapping the
horizons of two circles) and if the issue is a sickness I ask for it to be
released from its actuality and returned to the field of all possibilities and
if it is an issue of lack, I ask for the required scenario to be drawn down
from the said field of possibilities into the actualization of physical
occurrence.
Instead of a need to keep moving, look around the present moment
Until! In recent weeks I spotted another
level of truth. Yes, there is great healing and great forward movement in this method
but there is also a focus on what is not.
It serves recovery and vision and expansion – a means of getting to
where you want to go - but I was not looking closely enough at what is (what is
already around and is currently the case).
I found my way back to this focus via a gratitude practice where I’d
identify ten things I was grateful of, morning and evening, and really savour
one thing in particular as the very best thing that had come about that day.
Becoming Thankful for the Actual Rather Than Potential
Through this training, I already knew that
the more you look, the more you see. I found I had to combine the two exercises
and savour always a full ten favourite occurrences of the day. Nonetheless, I
realized with a shock that if you are focused on potential, you will only ever
meet potential, create potential and experience potential. For me, that
included all my various objectives to some extent, including love, health,
business and social change.
Disappointment to Regeneration at High Speed
So I came down with a bump of
disappointment and wept a little. I had to let my hopes go. I needed to take
off my rosy tinted spectacles. I had to face the reality of the present moment
with all its absentees. Luckily, the sadness and disillusionment only lasted
fifteen minutes….before it dawned on me what I had to do: Same as always;
1.
Clear the emotional charge out
of the situation: It aint good, it aint bad, it just is.
2.
Then remember and keep
remembering to look around for what is…because, by the sheer law of averages,
there will be plenty there to be getting along with, without drifting into what
could be …but is not!!
No Hurry
Although recovery speed is valued when you're on a downer or if you're an athlete, it is also good to give yourself time to listen to your conscience and heart.
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