Ask me how I know?

Day 78 Wisteria:

I want to start with a portion of today's reading in "Seasons of Change."

In life when we are developing a new pattern of behavior, a habit, we may consider ourselves tenderhearted and easily distracted, but as we stay the course and adjust our focus, we find our strength and stability in perseverance. We find that within a few seasons that the garden of our life has been transformed by our daily focus.

I shared with you a few days ago about this season of change penny campaign that we are doing at the Amor Spiritual Center. The principle behind this campaign is about creating a daily practice of meditation and how that compound over time (90 days) effects our lives. We often need some visual proof of the success of an experiment which is why we built-in the pennys as part of the experiment. It seems unfruitful that adding a penny a day will have any major effect on our lives. Yet I promise that if you do this experiment for 90 days and you carry $41 dollars worth of pennies to the bank to cash in you will understand at a deeper level the accumulative effect. If for no other reason the sheer weight of $41 dollars worth of pennies. The real miracle under all of this is that the quieting of our mind for 10 minutes a day will indeed have a profound impact on our lives. One of my she-ores puts it best when she asked the question "Ask me how I know?"

Every day we find concrete proof to back up the negative things in our lives. Every day we look for and find thousands of reasons why something will not work, or why we do not deserve something. It has become this huge negative habit we have as society created over time fueled by fear. We say we want change yet we keep reinforcing the negative pattern that is within our lives expecting it to somehow miraculously change and produce positivity. How is that even possible?

The practice of uninterrupted time, meditation, or contemplation is really getting to know yourself from the inside out. We think we're seeking this deep abiding spiritual connection with this divine entity that is the great Santa clause of life. When in fact what we are doing is recognizing the divinity within ourselves that is connected to this is amazing creative intelligence that is waiting to co-create a life beyond what we have ever created before. Not separate from, not judging whether we were good or bad, yet aligning with the truth of our word and making it so.

Just like the young wisteria vine is tender and vulnerable when first planted so, can be a new pattern of behavior when it is first began. In my teaching, I talk about the importance of doing something consistently for 21 days in order to create a new habit. If you want to bring it into your consciousness, you will need to consistently do it for 40 days. If you wish to transform your life you will have to be consistent with this behavior for 90 days.

Ask me how I know?

Think for a moment about nature how does it move from spring to summer? How does any one snow flake ever make a difference? How does a grain of sand create a beach? The thing that all of these have in common is the accumulative effect. One snowflake gathers with another snowflake creating a blizzard. One grain of sand washes up and collects with another grain of sand therefore making the beach. Each moment of life within nature living to the fullest each moment expressing itself to its greatest potential day after day until it shows up as the next season. So how can we learn from these brilliant and beautiful understandings that we see as evidenced every day of our lives? How can we take this information that is proven time and time again and use it to transform our lives from the inside out? How can we when everything on the outside of our lives is telling us that this won't work, or we are going to fail, or we are not good enough, or we are not smart enough, and instead believe in the innate core with in us that knows a truth that is greater than any other truth in the universe. I have within me in a field of infinite possibility to create anything I wish, why then would I not express myself most magnificently?

Learning to ride a bike, skate, ride a horse all takes consistency. Which is just another word for the accumulative effect. Better yet another word for habit. Each day of our lives we allow addictive habits in our lives to consume the very fiber of who we are when in fact within us is the power to transform anything from what it is to what we wish it to be. We first have to plant the seed of new beginning water it every day creating a new and beautiful habit of thriving, excelling, in our bodies. Rather than living from an old state of consciousness. Is today the day that you're willing to try something different and do it over and over again until it becomes the out picturing of your life?

I love you,

Thank you,

Rev. Allen