How is it possible that what is going on within me is effecting the world around me? How is it that when I do my internal work that my world and the world around me are changed? It is the law of nature. What we see in nature is all contained within the seed. The root system of a tree is deep so that it can support that which is above the soil. Nature understands at its core that the truth that we seek is found within.
Day 88: Grand Canyon, What creative power do you recognize yourself to possess that has the ability to create a world of peace, love, and joy?
I am aware today that I hold within me the same creative power that nature does. I know that when I focus my energy, and do the same thing over and over again that it does indeed show us as that which I have been asking for. I know today that anything that is not manifesting as I have intended, that the answer as to why will be found within me. I know that as I clear the path in my own consciousness that I am creating a change in the universe around me. As my thoughts, deeds, and actions change and I do my work, and allow others to do theirs we are indeed transforming the world through love.
This week I have had a challenge with something that I had heard someone that I love said. l allowed this to question my beliefs, and my role in it. As I sat with this statement and looked at it from different perspectives, I began to realize that being a safe space means that I will from time to time hear, feel, and see things that trigger, or hook me. I know and understand that we learn through contrast, or friction. Once again I sat with this statement, and ask my higher knowingness if this were my truth? What I realized is that though I knew this was not my truth, I did have feelings of guilt and shame around it. The hook that caught me and had me in such deep resistance was guilt and shame. The answer itself was not is blaming another, or being hurt, sad, or bitter. It was found by going within and looking at the places within where I could release fear, shame, and guilt.
As I transform my life within it begins to show up in my outer world. I remember a friend who had noticed a great deal of chatter in their outer world. Bitterness, yelling, conversation that were less than loving and they asked me why I thought that was? It is in those moments that I know to go within to ask for higher guidance. I first asked for clarity on what I was being asked. Then I asked what the internal dialog that my friend was having within themselves. The more we shared and talked about it the more clearly the pattern emerged, and my friend was able to find the answer within. My listening to my higher knowingness, and creating a safe space was all that was needed.
Today I know that what appears in my outer world is a direct reflection of what is going on within. I can resist, postpone, and blame as much as I like and at the end of the day the work to be done is mine. How you may ask is this possible with all the negative and fear based actions in the world. How can I think that doing my internal work will transform that? To which I respond that is indeed the only way to transform that. I can only see in the outer world what I hold within. If I am experiencing fear, then I hold that within myself. Ego would have me believe that if I remove you, or eliminate you from my life that this fear will go away. When in fact someone else will show up to fill that void until I choose to do my work.
Ask me how I know?
I live this lesson in my everyday life, and as Pema Chodron states "Noting ever goes away until we have learned the lesson."
I love you,
Rev Allen
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