According to Forest Gump, life is like a box of chocolates. "Ya never know what you're gonna get." But have you ever bit into three or four of the ones with that yukky white cream in the middle, put them back, then discover the diagram on the underside of the cover? I believe that we chose our destiny before we came here in order to learn the lessons we need to learn, and have that diagram tucked down deep inside, if we could only remember...
No disrespect to Forest -- *Forest Rocks* -- but I like to think of life as a pot luck dinner with a gathering of friends, each of us bringing a favorite dish of our own creation. I am bringing a chocolate pie with home-made crust, and whipped cream sprinkled with dark chocolate shavings. The grocery store is like a world of infinite choices. Now, I like horse radish as much as the next person, but in my chocolate pie? Not so good. Some of life's ingredients are fine and good and true, but let the person bringing the shrimp cocktail worry about the horse radish. Other things in life, like the dust bunnies on floor of isle six? Not so good in any dish... Just leave them there. I cannot tell you how many times I have been faced with a situation or person that was hurtful, and have said to myself, "I didn't want poop in my pie anyway!". Then I sit in silent self-amusement, and that's what it's all about anyway. Well, it's either that or the hokey-pokey, but that's for another blog....
This and my part 1 blog - Attraction - are based on three books -- Ask and It is Given, The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent, and The Law of Attraction by Esther and Jerry Hicks.
I believe we are here *in the physical* simply to experience joy. Sounds overly simple, but through the process of learning "how" to experience joy forces us to learn those not-so-simple lessons! When we feel joy, we can find our center where we are in alignment with our higher self or source. From that place, we attract other thoughts and situations that match it. The Law of Attraction is... "that which is like unto itself is drawn". The Law of Deliberate Creation states that our focused thoughts are manifested into our lives. This doesn't mean that we think one thought and it happens...I think of it as each thought being worth a penny. A penny isn't even worth leaning over to pick up....but over a period of time, we can think the equivalent of a million pennies and that is significant. In living without intent, half of the pennies will be on heads, half on tails and from that we have lost our power to create. Having a clear picture of what we want and focusing our thoughts accordingly lands all of our pennies on heads. Here is an example from my own life... I struggled for many years with a business that barely made a profit. Looking back I see that I had two conflicting beliefs: (1) if I grew my business I would be able to travel and make lots of money and my spouse could retire, and (2) if my business failed or consumed my time my relationship would fail. The fear of losing my spouse because of my business paralyzed me, and three opportunities came from "nowhere" immediately after I was out of the relationship. Was my relationship to blame? No, my thoughts were!
I've always been intrigued by paradox, and the paradox here is that I have often come to the conclusion that I need to "let go". Focusing my thoughts and having deliberate intent on what I want seems to run contrary to that. In the context of this second law, I would say that it's a matter of timing. The book refers to the process of determining what it is you want as "prepaving". The time to prepave is "pre", during meditation, contemplation, prayer, daydreaming, or whatever form of sabatical you choose. The "letting go" part then comes with the third law, the Law of Allowing. Stay tuned for part 3.
Live with Purpose!
Lory
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