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- The other day I tried a new running route by the river. The first day of the new route I felt as if I had run a long way. On the second day I ran past the place where I had turned around the day before and realized that I had hardly gone far at all.
I know that every time I run that way again the next turn around place will be further, and each time it will feel as if the point I stopped the day before was close, not far. Have you experienced this with driving someplace you have never been before? On the way there, not being sure of direction, it seems to take forever. On the way back - time flies.
There's another thing about running. I like the idea of it until it's time to get ready to go. Then I hate it. I think of all the reasons why I can't do it that morning. Too cold, too many things to do, I got up too late, people will see me, my hair is sticking out, my running clothes are ugly; the list is endless. It is actually harder to get myself to go out and run than it is to run.
On another day Del and I stood by the river and watched a speedboat pass by leaving a wake that gradually spread out across the water affecting everything in its path. Its purpose was not to leave a wake, but to move down the river.
What you do in life is exactly the same. Wherever you pass, whatever you do, you leave a wake. But, leaving a wake is not your purpose. Like the boat, your purpose is to move down the river. You purpose is to follow your open path and not be concerned with producing a result. Like a wake, the result inevitably follows.
As Life Coaches and as a Financial Planner we discover people's limitations and fears. We know that most people are docked on the shore of their life. It's our "job" to uncover and release fear so that their boats can move down the river of abundance.
By uncovering and releasing fear we reveal life dreams, which leaves us free to "plan" for them. The goal is to plan for what needs to be done to protect and prepare for the future while not sacrificing the Joy of the present. All of this must be done from the True perspective, from a Spiritual Perception.
Protecting and planning for the future from a material or false perception traps you in either sacrificing the Joy of the present, or in the fear of the future. Starting from a Spiritual Perception you begin with knowing that what you need and want is already present, simply hidden from view based on false beliefs and perceptions.
Although the outside picture may still appear as if you are protecting and planning for the future, you are instead moving down the river knowing without a doubt that the wake or result will follow. You don't travel in fear of needing to make things happen, you flow with the river in Joy.
A few months ago a woman came to our office. She had somehow picked us out of the telephone book and was unhappy because the last financial planner she visited had told her that she didn't have enough money to retire in 15 years. Sally (not her real name) had felt fear and hopelessness and wanted to find someone who could at least make her feel better.
After meeting with her it was obvious that she had walled herself in a mantle of fear of loss and betrayal, but in Truth she was surrounded by wealth. The man in her life loved her and her children unconditionally, her kids were wonderful, she lived in a house she loved - the list was endless. All we told her that day was in Truth she was wealthy and to go home and say that to herself and the man who loved her.
The next time we met with her she brought the man she now accepted as her Fiance, her job had been restored, and a problem that her daughter had since birth had begun to heal. Each time she returned she felt less fearful and more Joy, and each time more wealth was revealed.
Her focus is now on moving down the river and feeling the Joy of the wealth that is hers now. That perspective has begun to produce a wake that she can tangibly witness and use. Each time she can "run" down the path further because the idea of Joy becomes more familiar.
To run each day I need a bigger purpose. I have to think of something bigger than my excuses to get dressed and step out the door. In life we need a bigger purpose. When our purpose is to begin from, think from, and act from Spiritual Perception the river of Joy supports and sustains without any effort on our part. Our only "job" then is to be a witness to provision and beauty that flows around, through, and behind our life.
Shifting with you,
Beca
"There could never be a need, were it not for the fact that God's Idea is already present as consciousness in place of it. A so-called need is really just the presence of substance seen from a false perspective." John Hargreaves: "They Shall Be All Taught Of God"
Beca Lewis ©2005
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