In order to get
the things you want, you have to be willing to receive.
Sounds stupid to say it, but so many people are obsessed
with 'making it happen' that they forget to allow a
successful outcome.
Of course it is
necessary to create the vision of what you want to have, and
do the actions necessary in the physical universe to bring
it about. But if you’re a workaholic, your vibration may be
focused more on getting things done than on what you want!
Such a vibration will bring about a situation like poor
Sisyphus of Greek mythology, who is destined to forever push
a block of stone against a steep hill. You work, and work,
and work but not much changes.
Many of us have
been taught that in order to get something, you have to go
out and work hard. But all of this effort just places your
energy stream in an outflow. In order to receive anything,
you have to INflow. You can't outflow and inflow at the same
time. When someone hands you a present, you have to receive
it, not push it away! But that's exactly what most people do
with their emphasis on hard work. Most of that effort is
wasted unless you can also bring yourself to an attitude
of reception.
'Making it happen' contains within it a subtle resistance
to what you want. It is based on the idea that you have to
overcome an inherent property of the universe, which is
thought to be resistive to your desires. The common idea is
that events occur probabilistically. There is a chance you
can succeed, but statistics show that 80% of entrepreneurs
in the field of (fill in the blank) fail, so your chances
are only 1 in 5. This idea comes from quantum mechanics and
the study of the micro–world. It was shown a long time ago
by Heisenberg, Schrodinger and others that events at the
subatomic level are only probabilities. And because the
material world is composed of subatomic elements, the macro
world, it is thought, must also follow the same principles.
For consciousness to model its behavior on matter and energy
makes sense to those who believe that their self–awareness
originates in matter, but to those who are a little more
enlightened, such a thing seems silly.
When you are
'making it happen', you are never in an attitude of
reception long enough in order to receive. You are not
allowing yourself to receive that which you are working so
hard to get!
Your outflowing
of energy is blocking the inflowing energy that will bring
you what you want. It's stupid really. Constantly outflowing
to get something you want is just one of those unexamined
concepts that, once looked at closely, doesn't make any
sense. Stated even more idiotically: if you are constantly
outflowing to get something, you can't get it. When the call
for that big order comes in, all your people are on the
phone pitching, and the order goes to your competitor. When
a standby seat on the non–stop flight becomes available you
don’t get it, because you’re on the phone trying to convince
somebody at another airline to get you a connecting ticket.
Etc. In order to get something (duh!), you have to be in
receiving mode. You have to be INflowing, or allowing.
Underneath the
idea of 'making it happen' and 'working hard' is the idea
that you have to provide fair exchange of time, money, sweat
and effort, for what you receive, otherwise it isn't fair.
And underneath that is the idea of unworthiness.
If someone were
to just hand you a million dollars, would you cheerfully
accept it ? Be honest. The vast majority of people wouldn't. They'd have
to be convinced to accept abundance for themselves. But I’d
bet Ted Turner or Donald Trump wouldn’t hesitate an instant.
That’s because Turner and Trump believe that it’s their God
given right to have a few billion. And they’re right. It is!
And it is for everyone else as well. But almost all of us
simply can’t conceive of the idea seriously., so it doesn’t
happen for us.
That is why so
many people work hard and never attain the prosperity they
seek.
Underneath the
concept of unworthiness is the idea or consciousness of
scarcity. "There is only so much to go around," it is said.
"Don't take more than your fair share." "Those who are
abundant are greedy and selfish and care nothing for anyone
but themselves." A look around the planet seems to confirm
this. Economies of the world are based upon scarce fossil
fuels, and there really does seem to be a limited amount of
resources.
But this
scarcity is not 'just the way it just is' .We don't have a
consciousness of scarcity because that is the reality of
life. We have the reality of scarcity because that is our
consciousness. The Buddha said it best centuries ago: "We
are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make our world."
This universe
is based primarily on thought, not action. Some action is
needed of course, to bring anything into fruition in the
physical universe, but this action is only a minor part of
the equation. Too much action is inefficient, because action
= outflow, and only by inflow can you receive.
As long as we
believe there is only so much to go around, mankind can
never become truly abundant. An understanding of the
principle of 'like attracts like' shows us that the scarcity
idea is flawed. A physical reality of prosperity needs a
matching vibrational culture in which to take root and
flourish. Anything you want you can have, as long as you
don't counter-intend it! When a person finds himself or
herself continually lacking, then thought is aligned to
lack. We live in a universe of duality. There are 2 sides to
every scale, 2 ends to every line. One end is the negative
end, the other is the positive end. The negative end is just
the lack of something, the positive end is the having of it.
Keep your attention on the positive end and see what
happens! (Actually there is no 'negative' end, just a 'zero'
end. The 'zero' end is the not-having. In math, the number
line goes to the negative, but in real life, there is no
such thing as a 'negative' something There's just the lack
of something. (In physics, even antiparticles aren’t allowed
to have negative mass, unless they’re virtual. But if
they’re virtual, they’re not real)). (1)
So the point
is, in order to receive, you have to be receptive. It's a
lot less work that way, and a lot more fun!
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(1) Ref “The
Road to Reality” p. 70 by Roger Penrose.
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