Allowing Yourself to Be Fine-Tuned

If we wish to change the reality in which we live, we have to first let go of it. Just visualize having your hands full of items and trying to pick up something else. More than likely, you'll see that you have to set something down in order to pick something else up. So it is with re-creating a reality. We have to "set this one aside" to the degree that we create enough "empty space" for something new.

We've all heard of healing, surrendering, letting go, and on and on. All of that is essential to the process, of course. But I've heard many, many people say the same thing ... all the letting go and I'm still not seeing the changes that I want to see.

If we step back and look at the goal ... replacing the human experience of suffering with the God experience of infinite possibilities ... we often see that it's no easy task. Most people are hard on themselves, chastising themselves because they haven't made as much progress, or change, as they think should have. Most people, including myself through the years, have periods of frustration. The frustration is actually a deterrent, an energetic block, to the progress we want to make. If we're frustrated, are we in "the flow?" If we're in "the flow," we're in the energy of God and where it is our soul wants to take us.

What I've found, in my own internal searching, is that much of my frustration has been born out of trying to mold my life into what it "should be." Who formed the "shoulds?" Society, peers, well-meaning relatives and friends, and, most importantly, our perception of how things "should" be here on Planet Earth. How we should be, might be more accurate. By deciding how we should be, we make ourselves wrong about being who we really are. I know, without a doubt, that almost every person can relate to those words.

When we make ourselves wrong, we create dis-trust of self.

I imagine by now you've thought about all my conversation regarding "re-perceiving?"

Think about it. If we have any distrust of ourselves, are we really going to think we can re-create a reality? No. We're going to continue to allow "Earth society" to do it for us. What that boils down to is the issue of self-empowerment. We can't become self-empowered if we don't have total trust in ourselves. Now, think about how much trust it's going to take to believe that the instincts we feel deep within are the way things should be ... versus the way an entire planet tells us things should be.

That takes us to the obvious. Re-perceiving ourselves.

That's where the fine-tuning comes in. Re-perceiving self, in order to discover your own truth, in order to learn to trust the deep and infinite truths of yourself. Again, what is already in place has to be "broken down," released, re-placed, whatever term you might want to use. Can we conceive of the level of trust it takes to allow everything we know, or think we know, to be torn away and replaced by a greater truth? A truth that cannot be seen or touched but instead is invisible and questioned? Can we find the strength within to stand strong against an entire reality that tells us that our goal is impossible? That our beliefs are un-real?

That's what I feel we're being called to at this time of Earth's history.

As I thought about all of this, preparing to write about it, a vision of an old, gnarled oak tree came to me. The tree stood alone, its roots sunk so deep into the earth that it seemed they were miles long. A tornado was blasting its way around the tree. Everything, including a kitchen sink, was slamming against the old tree. But it stood strong, unmoved. Seemingly untouched by the assault.

I can clearly see how the vision relates to the goal.

If we're going to stand strong, we have to trust in ourselves, know we're where we're supposed to be, who we're supposed to be, and whatever happens to us is meant to happen. We can weather the storm, strong in the face of chaos. And no matter what, we have to remember that this is a temporary reality we're living on Earth. No matter what happens here, our soul will have gained from our experiences.

The roots of the unmovable tree represent our deep connection to our true selves, the infinite souls that we are. We are infinite souls having temporary lifetimes on Earth. When we bring that Truth to our daily lives, we understand that all of the experiences we have benefit our infinite selves. If, indeed, this is a time of great change on Earth, which I believe it is, then we are here to experience being a part of that great change. What we change, how we change, will contribute to the overall change of the entire Human society and its future.

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