Like the birth of any seed into a flower, its conception begins deep in the ground within a void. New life emerges inside the pitch black of night, like the sun before the break of dawn, until it is ready to expand fully into the light.
Our very own births were no different. All dreams begin like every foetus, grown within the dark space of the imagination; a potential sanctuary of both fears and hopes, all of which remain uncertain, until manifested into form.
The value in this observation between the birth of dreams and our very own being, is the awareness that there is a natural order in our universe, which delivers all life into creation. In order to bring our dreams to life, we must first accept the cycles, process and mystery of this universal and sacred process.
Like a pregnant mother, we can feed our precious creations with nourishment, remain calm, patient, joyfully expectant, and yet there is a mystery we do not control, which we must ultimately surrender to. There are natural laws we must accept, in order to flow rather than fight with life, so we can flower to the fullest extent of our potential glory.
In order to accept, we must know.
The dreams we manifest into reality are the ones that we knew would come true. Knowledge is not intellectual, nor is it a belief or a wish. When we know, it is an experience we have within every part of our being. It is an unshakeable stillness that comes from within.
Like a basketball player in the moment before she shoots a goal, every part of her being felt it was a winner, before she even extended her arms 50 feet away from the hoop. She felt a knowing and so every part of her body was programmed to move in perfect unison to manifest it.
There has been much said about manifesting or creating our lives to match our mind's concept of how it should be. For me this way of being is like the story of watching a magnificent wild brumby from a far, galloping in the sunlight. The beauty and freedom of its spirit is miraculous to behold. We marvel at the golden vision, chase the brumby through the forest, capture it, put it in a stable, experience longing fading to delight, until...
...the brumby begins to try to break through the walls of the stable, full of anger and what was a dream, quickly dissolves into a nightmare. Why?
The wild brumby, like our dreams, are not a means to an end. They are not created to be captured or possessed. In fact, the moment they are put into captivity, the very essence that caused us to marvel at them in the first place disappears. The nature of what created our sense of awe was not the brumby, but the spirit of freedom it radiated from within and this essence cannot be bought, borrowed or kept.
Freedom can only come from within ourselves.
Once we set a goal, we simultaneously set up a measuring stick for failure or success. The fundamental problem with this paradigm is our experience of life becomes dictated by something we believe we do not possess. In another words, in chasing freedom outside of ourselves, we program ourselves to act from a place of lacking something and believing we are not good enough as we are. In order to experience freedom, it is a state of awareness that is who we are outside of the box of our expectations.
Just as the basket-baller so easily scores a goal from a place of confidence, she just as easily manifests a missed shot from a fraction of doubt and insecurity. And even if she does score the goal, if the the unconscious intention is to prove something to others, no amount of scored goals will ever satisfy her addiction to 'winning', as it derives from a state of lacking self-love.
The only freedom is to stop playing the game that you need anything outside of yourself.
When I say this, the answer I often get is, well, if I didn't need anything, I wouldn't do anything! It all sounds very romantic, but I live in the 'real' world where I have a job and need get things done. My answer is this: think about the best love-making session you have ever had. Did you plan it? Ask for it? Draw a map for it? Paint a picture? List all the attributes you wanted? No, the truth is you didn't even think about it. You were fully and completely in the moment without a thought on your mind. You went for it and out of that total surrender to the present, it just happened perfectly...out of nowhere.
Another wonderful example I heard from a talk by Robert Young is what happens to us in a state of emergency. Without a thought in our mind, the body moves in perfect precision to do what is necessary. Some call it adrenaline. I prefer to refer to it as higher intelligence. It is this same higher intelligence that created and moves mountains within our natural world and it is hardly a passive force. That miraculous force of nature is not only present within our environment, but very much alive within ourselves.
We access this force, through surrender, as within this state of receptivity and being present, our senses are able to pick up on and respond to the guidance of that force, which automatically moves us in the direction of our highest path.
We are not separate entities. We are a part of a universal landscape in a constant state of evolution. As we surrender to that process, like the flower that moves towards the sun, we will automatically be lead to tasting the nectar, which answers our every desire. The process of evolution creates more ease. Therefore, as we evolve, our lives are easier and we naturally have positive experiences with more money, resources, friends, support, success etc., when we grow to the point that we are not attached to these forms, but instead have a consciousness of knowing we are taken care of.
Our being does not care if we get the job, person or prize. It simply has one desire and that is to evolve. When the mind says, no I have another idea and life has to fit into it, that's when life becomes painful. You cannot push the river. Pain is sometimes the only way this force has to move us back onto our evolutionary path. It has no attachment to the how, it just pushes us in the direction of the sun, even if we protest.
The actuality that we are a part of a greater evolutionary process that is broader than our personal dreams and desires is not in question. However, we can either choose to evolve consciously and accept the gifts of this miraculous universal force that offers wellbeing and flow, or we can keep disturbing our natural access to well-being, through reducing the ocean to fit into the small frame of our minds and attachments.
We can choose to fight or flow.
When we are in the present moment, we are the wild brumby and we are in the flow. We are free of expectation and just being ourselves without thinking about it. It is only within this space that we are able to receive the gift of the miraculous. We allow this when we do not have an agenda we are so busy projecting onto the world, that we cannot engage in the magic in front of us. Magic requires that we have no concept, no needs and no attachment to the outcome. We just have to be PRESENT for its gifts.
This is the space of miracles that nature and our cycles of death and birth show us all the time. Nature is in constant surrender to what is and within that state of total receptivity, majestic canyons are formed in complete silence, children are born from a tiny egg and sperm; all without any particular goal in mind, but simply derivative of the innate desire to expand and evolve.
The question is, do you want your life to be as amazing as a pre-conceived concept or do you want it to be as miraculous as our natural world? Compare the man-made colosseum in Rome below with the one that nature created called, 'Inspiration Point', Bryce Canyon (Be aware the width of the canyon runs into miles. The colosseum is less than 1% of its size):
In order receive the gift of something greater than ourselves, it requires us to become humble, vulnerable and surrender to the mystery that is beyond what our minds can fathom and our hands can create.
The substance that creates all miracles in nature is also the substance within ourselves. We access the voice of this higher intelligence not through thought, but in the experience of knowing and being present.
A flower is not half-focused on last week's argument as it grows in the soil. It is fully grounded within the now and is therefore able to be present for every opportunity to move in flow with its highest path of efficiency; responding to a clear and uninterrupted signal from the universal guiding force. The moment we project an idea into or onto the present, we close ourselves off from this gift and compass, which leads us beyond any concept we can come up with.
Once we let go of control, we allow a gateway for the miraculous to enter.
Blessings and Aloha,
Amy
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