Forward to the Future... Oops!

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater
benefit.
Napoleon Hill

This may be the most important blog I’ve written. It starts with this
important question:

How do I deal with the crap the Universe is throwing in my direction?

The answer is more than can be illuminated in one blog entry. So here is
one small expression of possibility…

I believe there is a Universal presence that is aligning itself in myriad
ways to create. All that exists is this Universal presence as form. The
tangible expression of the intangible and ineffable. I teach that this
presence is always working for our highest good.

So why does crap happen?

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill

This may be the most important blog I’ve written. It starts with this important question:

How do I deal with the crap the Universe is throwing in my direction?

The answer is more than can be illuminated in one blog entry. So here is one small expression of possibility…

I believe there is a Universal presence that is aligning itself in myriad ways to create. All that exists is this Universal presence as form. The tangible expression of the intangible and ineffable. I teach that this presence is always working for our highest good.

So why does crap happen?

The answer that no-one wants to hear is that crap happens because we are equal to it. No-one wants to hear it because it sounds like we are to blame for the crap in our lives. We are not to blame, although we are responsible. Responsibility, you see, is a “forward to the future” consciousness, not like blame which is a “reverse to the past” consciousness. Responsibility inherently has a forward momentum to it as it asks the question, “what can I do?” So rather than get mucked down in the search for why, replace that energy with the knowledge that something new is making itself known in your life.

If there are many things that keep getting in the way of your best life possible there are a couple things to consider. The biggest one is are you on the right path? Any path can be the right path, there is no pre-ordained path for any of us. What makes the right path the right path is our decision for the path to be right. If you are trying to place a round peg in a square hole you have a few options. You can find a square peg, you can reshape the round peg, or you can find a new square hole. In every case it is up to you to make it work, and no-one else can do it for you.

In all of this it is important that you ensure your emotional security. If you are going to make change in your life, do what you can to ensure that you are not jeopardizing your emotional state more than helping it. In all things there is an answer, and we want to make smart decisions. Emotional reactive decisions are inherently misleading. So if we are looking to move away from the crap, we have to move through the emotional charge the crap creates in us.

You know what, crap DOES happen. I am not a minister that will ever tell you that it doesn’t. Can we end it? I believe we can. In the meantime having a mechanism to address the crap is what is important.

Here is a story that set me off on all of this. It is a small expression of one crappy thing that happened to my husband (and tacitly to me) and how we moved through it. Late yesterday I got a call from my husband. On answering the phone he sounded quite shaken and I soon understood why. He was calling to tell me that while he was driving down the freeway the front passenger tire on our car blew-out. He was freaked out, but safe. I told him to remain calm, and call 911. There are roadside emergency trucks that are run by the state.

I was able to be free of the emotional charge more easily in the moment because I was separated from the actual event physically, and because I have trained to address these types of issues free of the emotion.

The first step was to look the issue in the eye and deal with it. From that point it becomes a step-by-step process. Will there be missteps? Maybe. That doesn’t mean we live forever beating ourselves up. Once the course is corrected, we can get on with it. Here were the steps: get the immediate issue addressed (the roadside assistance helped with the changing of the tire). Take each subsequent step without consciously giving into worry around the big picture.

Dane, my husband, was able to get the immediate issue addressed and get to safety. Because it was late in the day, there was no known possibility to have the tire replaced in a tire shop, and to drive the two-hours home from Phoenix would not be safe on the spare.

The information leads to action steps: get a hotel, make an appointment with the tire shop for the next morning. And so on, and on.

In all of this it was a great lesson in clarity… and affirmative prayer, which in this philosophy we refer to as Spiritual Mind Treatment.

That’s the final part of today’s entry. Treat your mind. Treatment in this instance was about maintaining a clarity of mind. Treatment is not hope. Treatment is the impetus for action in life. When we treat, it must impel action. And it did.

There are a lot of things that I can still look at in this experience which illuminate a larger awareness, and I will do that. As I make discoveries I live in faith (rooted in love) that life gets easier.

Isn’t that the whole point?