RESISTANCE

We discussed guidance the other day. After reading my blog, Jamie ventured that guidance is always available but we resist it. We resist doing what we could do for many reasons, some trivial, some basic to our personalities.

During these last few years, I have been paying attention to my urgings about doing things. In the past I would get a urge to mow the lawn, go to the feed store, go get the eggs, etc, fairly trivial stuff and I would often override it. Something I read caused me to pay attention to these urgings. I began paying greater attention to them. I found that it made my life easier and more graceful. For example: I might be reading the paper and I get an urge to go do the afternoon chores. I look at the clock and see it is only 3:30PM and I usually don't do the chores until 4 or 4:30. I follow the urging and just as I get back into the house and pick up my paper, a neighbor comes over to discuss something with me. Since I have been paying attention to these promptings I have experienced a similar scenario several times. We are much larger beings than we perceive and we know far more than we can imagine.

We are creative beings capable of great things. Yet, because of resistance, we limit our abilities. We don't take on projects that are completely within our abilities because we are afraid we can't do them. This is an area where ignoring our guidance ceases to be trivial. It can have to do with our comfort, our lifestyle, our well being. We can resist ideas for improving our lives because we feel unworthy. We can resist moving to better housing, sending our kids to better schools, finding a better job, getting more education, taking a vacation etc.

Guidance comes to us in different ways. I am not speaking of the ego promptings that have to do with status, power or social prestige. They will never make you happy. The guidance I am talking about is a quiet urging. It is about loving yourself and wanting what is best for yourself. It is about recognizing yourself as a creative being. We won't see how we are magnificent if we deny our intuition.

How we feel about ourselves is the biggest contributor to our denial of our intuition. We have been carefully trained to feel unworthy. Are we afraid to feel we deserve more? Are we afraid it will be taken away from us? Are we afraid God will punish us? We have all kinds of negative notions we need to give up. These negative notions lie deep in our consciousness. We need to look deeply and honestly to release these negativities.

We have been taught a negative view of responsibility. In our culture responsibility is laced with shame and guilt. Failure to be responsible means you are blameworthy.

The truth is we can't help being responsible. We are! We are responsible for the whole world! We are responsible for everything! We can't be anything else. We are one. Every thought we have affects everyone else. Every word we pronounce affects everybody. We can't do anything without affecting the whole.

We are responsible! We are also blameless. When we err, it is because we do not, yet, see clearly. Even when people, intentionally hurt people, they are not to be blamed. They do what they do because of how they are stuck in their world view. They are victims of their negativity. Blame and punishment won't correct the problem. Only love and compassion can lead to the reeducation they might need.

Blame, only keeps us from being responsible. When we see clearly, that we are blameless, then it is a simple matter to take responsibility.

We have a New World to create. Knowing that every loving thought, deed or action affects all, is very helpful. It motivates us to be scrupulous; to glean our consciousness of negativity.

All the judgements we make, throw a smoke screen over our creativity. It blocks our intuition and blocks guidance.

Knowing we are responsible is freeing. We know we can have the world we want and now we need the creativity of everyone.

Happy Friday. My urgings tell me I better get to the feed store before it rains.

Love and Peace,  Gregg