Dear Joshua,
Tonight, for my daughter's 18th birthday, we went to a special showing of Blazing Saddles at our local theatre. It's a fun event where they sell pop guns and whoopee cushions and the audience generally hoots and hollers throughout the movie having a good time. So it's a raucous crowd and you're supposed to be. However, sitting right behind me was a rather obnoxious, slightly drunk, (they serve beer at this theatre and I was having one too) loud mouth that was pushing my buttons. I didn't think it was a coincidence that he sat right behind me. I tried to think thoughts of love, he's probably a nice guy, but thoughts of confronting him which would no doubt lead to a fight also kept coming up. I should give a little background here - in high school I was pretty small and I was generally fearful of "bullies" in school. So now that I'm grown up so to speak and I'm no longer little, I feel I want to punish anyone who comes across like a bully and put them in their place. Almost like a chip on my shoulder and mixed in there is that I have something to prove. I know this doesn't serve me. I ultimately said and did nothing, but part of me also thought that maybe the universe was presenting an opportunity for me and that I should have had an interaction with him. Ultimately, at the root of this has to be fear, because it's definitely not love. He cannot create in my reality, but didn't I invite him in into my reality based on my vibration?
I would appreciate your perspective
Thanks!
Steve
Dear Steve,
There are no coincidences and you being placed right in front of someone who annoyed you was designed by the universe for your specific benefit. The fact that you felt negative emotion underlies a limiting belief that is based on fear. Identify the fear and reduce the intensity of the limiting belief and you'll forever change. This sort of thing will not happen in the future because you will have done the work necessary. Therefore manifestation events like this one will no longer be necessary. However, many other manifestation events will continue to pop up in your experience.
A manifestation event occurs in the attempt to modify you into the version of you that will be ready for all that you desire. It is nice to see that you are going along with these events rather than resisting them. You maintain your focus even as thoughts enter your mind that are a vibrational match to what you're feeling. You do not act, rather you analyze. This is a great step forward.
The old Steve may have wished that things were different and might have said or done something to alter the conditions. But, as you know, this would not fulfill the purpose of the event. The event is there to show you an aspect of your belief system that is limiting. If you are to change into the version of Steve that will recognize all that you desire when it comes, you must allow your limiting beliefs to fade away into the background.
So here you find yourself confronted with an unpleasant character in an environment that was supposed to be fun. As soon as you start feeling annoyed, angry or upset, the event has begun for you. Notice thought that there were others who viewed this situation differently from their perspective. While you were getting angry, there were others who did not even notice this person. Was your daughter as annoyed with him as you were? It's interesting to note how this was more intense of an experience for you than for others in the theater. Why is that?
When we use the term "love" we really mean "accept what is." You do not have to love the other person in the way you think of love. All you have to do is accept the conditions which include this person you're annoyed by. The moment has happened and there's nothing you can do to change what is. Therefore, you must love or accept the moment for what it is. It happened for a reason. This fact should give you comfort. Now start looking for that reason. It always has to do with you. It's always for you. What is the message in this event?
Let's start by taking a look at the version of Steve that you're reaching for. We see ease. This is what you are ultimately seeking. You want to enjoy a certain confidence in this physical reality. You want to know more and be able to work within this reality. You want to feel secure. You want to feel ease. You want things to be smooth. You want to enjoy life without the worry that sometimes enters your mind. You want bliss. You want absolute freedom. The freedom you seek comes from a feeling of ease. Ease is what you seek.
You are a being of love and when you do not feel love, you feel discord. You want everything to be right. You want things to work out. You want to coerce the conditions so that they suit you. When the conditions, in the moment, are not to your liking, you want to change those conditions. But you cannot change the conditions and that's when you experience negative emotion. You want to wrestle the conditions so that they suit your preference in every moment. You do not allow the conditions to be as they are. You will not find ease in this approach.
Step one is to realize that nothing is ever wrong, that everything is right.
Step two is to understand that the conditions in the moment cannot be changed. If you feel negative emotion, you're attempting to change the conditions.
Step three is to realize that it's all happening for you, not to you. It's all for your benefit.
Step four is to remember that you are being molded into a more expanded version of you only because your desires demand it. You have a desire and the universe goes to work by altering you so that you will be ready for that desire. If you had no more desire, you could remain unchanged for the remainder of your life. Since you have launched all these rockets of desire, the universe is creating experiences for you so that you may alter your beliefs and change into the expanded version of you who will be ready for those desires as they manifest into your reality.
Step five is to go willingly into the process so the change may be made easily. Resisting the process only delays the change and causes inner conflict and stress on the body.
Step six is to analyze the event and learn to pick out the valuable information contained inside it.
Step seven is to appreciate the event for what it is and to appreciate yourself for what you've accomplished.
Step eight is to compare yourself to the earlier version of you and to no one else. You have grown and you can see that growth.
Step nine is to remember that this is a never-ending evolutionary process and to start enjoying the journey because you will never be finished evolving.
Step ten is to realize that this is the process of expansion and it can either be joyous or not. It's all up to you.
Now, armed with the information we have just given you, please analyze this event in more detail. Determine why you felt fear, why you could not accept the conditions, and what the limiting beliefs are. What was it about this event in particular that demonstrates the difference between who you are now and who you must be to get what you want which is ease. Remember, your perspective is limited, so think about the situation as you imagine what our perspective must be. What is your inner self telling you? How would the situation be different if you were the expanded version of you?
You are loved more than you can imagine by more than you could imagine.
Joshua
