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We have all heard some version of the expression, "A child
is closest to God."
This means that a child has not become jaded about life and
is still strongly connected to something divine within him
or her. When one looks at a child one sees an innocence, a
joy, a trusting that all will be well. However, there is
also the flip side of the coin: a child is naive and
gullible. As adults we understandably hesitate to operate in
life this way, for we do not want to be taken advantage of.
However, when one truly begins to view life from the
viewpoint of the child within you, something remarkable
happens: you feel a purity and a sense of well-being.
It's magic.
When you begin to feel as a child, you achieve a
powerful certainty of your own self worth. When you feel as
a child, you eliminate resistance that prevents you from
lining up with the things you want.
The
qualities we associate with children are precisely those
qualities which lead to a pure connection to Source. They
have just been bad-mouthed by those who have forgotten that
it is possible to live a life of joy!
"I
would really like to have a new house on 100 acres of wooded
land," you say.
An
adult will respond something like, "Well, how much does it
cost?" "With your income you'll never make it." "Don't get
your hopes up, you'll just be disappointed in the end."
A
child will respond, "Of course!" and know it.
This knowing is not a blind, stupid and naive trust, but a
rock solid certainty based upon an innate understanding of
the laws of the universe. If adults could approach life with
the same certainty, think how much more powerful we’d be!
When you feel as a child feels, you know that what you want
is already yours, and therefore, your vibration becomes more
aligned with the desired thing.
If
you practice feeling like a child your worries and anxieties
will simply vanish. "That is silly and naive," you say.
"Feeling like a child won't pay my mortgage. And kids are
stupid. They don’t know anything."
Well, kids don’t have their heads stuffed with data yet, and
they haven’t learned to doubt themselves yet either! But
just wait a few years. After association with
‘knowledgeable’ adults, they’ll begin to believe in the same
self–limiting things as everyone else. Except for a few,
thank goodness, who are too smart to fall for that jaded
point of view. But even as adults there is no reason we
cannot reassume the viewpoint we had as children. If you can
recall your childhood even vaguely, there was probably a
feeling of happiness and trust that all is well.
Applying the Two Powerful Attributes of Consciousness
Why do we dismiss the innocence of youth for the realistic
viewpoint of the adult? Because we look around and see
others having a bad time of it. We say, "if it could happen
to him, it could happen to me." Or perhaps, "This is a world
of duality and it is not possible to always have things go
perfectly."
But
ask yourself, why does anyone experience something unwanted?
Only by noticing and then identifying with the travails of
another. It is the identifying part that gets us resonating
to the unwanted condition, thereby activating it within us.
Identification comes from the inner knowledge that all
physically incarnated beings are aspects of a grander,
universal consciousness. Love is a recognition of the divine
within all things. Consciousness itself is that feeling of
love, and all positive emotion is an innate recognition
that there is really no separation between any of us; a
recognition that we are truly One. So it is a natural thing
to identify with our fellow human beings. It is a divine
impulse to recognize the connection between us, in other
words. We only get into trouble when we identify with the
unwanted stuff. It is simply a failure to differentiate!
It
is important for a person to intelligently utilize both of
the powerful abilities of consciousness, identification and
differentiation.
First differentiate, from amongst the tremendous contrast,
those things which are wanted and those which are unwanted.
That is the first step.
Just
as in the creation of a life, so to in the creation of a
relationship, or a business project, or even the decision to
turn right or left:
one must decide what it is that one wants and doesn't want.
Without first applying the all-important principle of
differentiation, we include within our vibration ALL things
that are observed. Then of course, we get the bad stuff
along with the good stuff. Then we say, "You have to take
the bad with the good." But you don't!
Now
comes the equally important step of identification. Once we
have differentiated the good from the bad, it is vitally
important to identify with what is wanted.
If
you identify before you have differentiated, you include the
bad with the good. As humans we are taught just the
opposite. We are taught to protect ourselves from the bad.
We are taught to get rid of the bad. "Oh, wouldn't it be a
wonderful thing if we could eliminate war, and poverty, and
injustice!" These are noble sentiments, but attempting to
eliminate them will only make them bigger. Anything you give
your attention to, you feed energy to, you resonate to, and
so it becomes your predominant vibration. Then you wonder
why your life has gone south.
It
is necessary, in other words, to apply the two most powerful
abilities of consciousness in a way which makes life joyful.
Being like a child is a wonderful way to do this. You don't
need thousands of hours of therapy, gurus, or seminars to
accomplish it. All you have to do is practice. All
of us remember what it is like to feel childlike. Reaching
for the feeling of the child will carry you to new heights
of joy, and your life will become much simpler.
How do you do this?
Just recall a good memory from childhood. Remember what it
felt like to wake up on a Saturday morning, full of
excitement for life. Reach for the feeling within the
memory, and in that act of reaching, you will come closer
and closer to it, until you eventually get there.
It's only your adult concepts of, "Oh that is SO naive,"
that trips you up.
I
do this all the time, at work, while writing, anytime. It's
habit forming, in a good way. (We usually associate a habit
with something unwanted. But it's possible to form good
habits too).
Your establishment of a vibrational platform of attraction
is the single most important thing you can do in life, for
it will inevitably lead to the manifestations you desire so
much. Are they going to happen all at once? That is
unlikely. But you'll notice a gradual improvement in the
circumstances of your life, and, most important, you'll feel
so much better!
Human beings are very complicated creatures. We come up with
endless processes, mantras, affirmations, 100 step programs,
etc., all in the simple impulse to reach for a good feeling.
You can save yourself a lot of time and effort by simply
ignoring all of that process and, whenever it occurs to
you, thinking of something that makes you feel good. A
pleasant walk, a great vacation, a nice talk with your
friend, a lovers evening together, remembrance of childhood,
etc., all of these things are so valuable.
They are far more powerful than all of the hard work you are
going through to get to your goal, because you are
establishing an unsullied vibration that is aligned with the
things you want. When you're working hard you are, by
definition, putting in a lot of effort. But you're putting
in all that effort because you see so many obstacles to your
goal! In order to eliminate the obstacles in the physical
universe, you first have to eliminate them within your own
vibration. For it is your vibrational signal which has
already brought to you the people and situations that are
making your life difficult.
I
have found that reaching for the feeling of a child is one
of the most powerful (and simple) self-help process I have
ever done. Instantly, cares and worries vanish and my life
seems clear to the things I want. What I've tried to do in
this essay is convince you that it's not delusional to do
so, and that, in fact, feeling like a child connects you
powerfully to some inner kernel of well–being. Like anything
else, it just requires a little practice.
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