“Moving” forward …
Mar 5th, 2008 by spaceagesage
I have been moving house, home, or office every night for a week — at least while I sleep. Although I am not moving in real life, I keep dreaming of suitcases and boxes and trying to find things. It seems I am always going here and there and everywhere, looking for something. Kind of tiring, it is. They say moving is in the top ten life stressors.
My interpretation is that my subconscious mind is still trying to keep up with all my radical changes in the last few months. I am moving from being a person who would always use a certain force of will for accomplishing something into a person more willing to embrace the “Let go and Let God” idea or as Dr. Wayne Dyer writes in his book, The Power of Intention:
” …I have felt a shift in my thinking from a purely psychological or personal-growth emphasis, toward a spiritual orientation where healing, creating miracles, manifesting , and making a connection to divine intelligence are genuine possibilities.”
In other words, when I let go of so much ego-driven force of will and yield to the power behind the Nature of All Things — Dyer refers to it as “Intention” or “Source,” and I call it God — then I can see the world in a new way that allows a greater flow of love, abundance, kindness, creativity, beauty, and more.
For example, my husband spent the last two days being very angry at a web-hosting company that has offered the exact opposite of customer service. The web hosting business refuses to acknowledge any mistakes, which has created a bit of a mess with some of the domain names my husband has registered.
In the past, I might have advised my husband to take legal action. Or I might have tried to bust up his anger with humor by conspiratorially telling him we should call Rent-A-Ninjas to take care of the company. Instead, this question came out of me: “What have you learned from your suffering (over this problem) and what more are you willing to suffer to learn?”
He launched into another story of how they had screwed him over.
I had to ask him the question again.
Same response.
I asked a third time.
This time he smiled. He has been changing, too, so he realized that the anger was making him suffer needlessly and that “You cannot solve a problem by condemning it,” –Dyer.
When my husband let go of his anger, he realized that he invested so much in trying to stay in our budget that he ignored his own intuition telling him to double check a few things about this company. Once he let go of the anger and relaxed, he could see upsides to what had happened because releasing the anger let him think outside the box and with a bigger picture. He realize God wanted him to learn: 1) to pay more attention to his intuition, 2) that force of will and ego don’t always — or rarely — yield wise choices, and 3) that the company is just not suited to his plans.
By shifting from anger over “what was done” and moving into “what has been learned,” both my husband and I stepped out of powerlessly venting over the actions of others and moved into making the situation work powerfully and positively for us.
I like that kind of moving!