Every day we make choices about how we will engage the day, and those choices will determine the quality of our experience. We tend to live into our perceptions and projections about what is on the horizon. We actually will go out and seek out evidence to support our view of life. Many of us do this on auto pilot, completely unaware that this is happening, though I can assure you it is. Once we choose to become consious co-creators we begin to see that we can shift our view, and that shift can drastically and beautifully affect our experience. Many of these old ways of seeing and being are deeply worn patterns and can be changed, transformed. We can take simple small steps and the transformation is underway, if that is what we desire. Many times there is a pay off for staying in these old ways, and even though we may say we are not desiring the results we are getting we keep repeating the same patterns anyway. And that is another story....

We do not know what is to come in most cases and yet we will make a prediction, that is, we will dictate before how something will occur. Certainly, sometimes our predictions can be accurate, even right on. We are all pros at this, and I can see in my own life just how much I was predicting, and how it caused me to have a very limited experience. I would access the records of my past experiences and predict what was to come with what I knew already. Thus, not really being present. Boooooooooring. Not only boring, downright frightening in many cases. OK, I admit it, I used to live in a fear based projection of what I had thought was reality. It wasn't reality, and that I found a way out of this way of being is what all this work is about. Just sharing it, because I care about my brothers and sisters. Yes, you. I care about you.

I worked with a guy once, about a year ago, and he is very neurotic. He is always forgetting things, and he kind of stumbles around and fumbles about, has a short fuse, you could cut the tension in the air with a knife. He often spontaneously cusses loudly like a pressure relief valve operating. Even speaking to him on the phone I get the impression that something is about to go wrong. He has this view of the world, that it just can't be trusted. He is a very well meaning fellow and likable, just very nervous, to say the least. So, working with him, and allowing him to be my teacher, I came to some realizations. I had been developing this ability to trust and to let go, very consciously working on it. I noticed how people create a way of being and then act as if they have no part in it. Having some success in being a conscious co-creator of my experience I was fascinated by this fellow. Others around him were just calm and cool, but he was not. We were all in the same space, doing similar things. Simply, our views were just different. I began a conversation with him about work stuff, and when the opportunity came I said; "Well you just have to trust the Universe I guess..." and very nervously he said; "That's just it, I don't trust the Universe at all".
In that moment I got it. In his mind, it's all up to him. All the burdens of controlling the Universe and everything around him on his own two shoulders all at once, every moment, evey day. No wonder he appeared nervous and frazzled, that is a lot of stuff to be in charge of! And I saw myself in that way of being, there was a time when I was that very way. Everything I have spoken about this man I at one time was, that is how I recognized it so easily. I just simply found a way out.

True control comes from no control at all. True power comes from not desiring power at all. This beautiful Universe works in such a perfect way. There are forces and energies at work that we will never control, ever. We can align with them though. We can allow them, open ourselves, humble ourselves. We have been given everything, there is no lack, except that which we create ourselves. When we choose to look at the gifts all around us, the abundance, the beauty and the wonder, we can see that these forces at work are loving and giving beyond measure, asking nothing in return, just giving and giving. Aligning with this, we can simply get out of our own way. We can let go and begin to trust what we have fought so long.

Love and Gratitude