Arnaud Question #34

 

Dear Joshua,

There was no way denying it. This morning (and quite late into the afternoon), I was in a real funk.

My cold had transformed into sinusitis so my head felt like a magic cauldron... I took paracetamol and could deal with that. I have been appreciating my cold and the fact that it allowed me to get some "me" time at the weekend and got me to work from the comfort of my home yesterday.

The main fear that I was facing was "I'm not going to have time to do all that I have to do". I have a "big" presentation that I am delivering online through Skype to a large number of people tomorrow at lunchtime.

By lunchtime today I hadn't yet managed to start putting it together. I kept getting requests for things that needed sorting out "urgently" from all directions. Simply put, I felt like in those dreams where you try to run but no matter how much you move your legs you stay on the spot.

So, what I did was to take a deep breath and laugh. I had to acknowledge that I was in a funk, but I also tried to downplay the stakes. I called upon my millions to give me inspiration, stuck my earbuds in my ears and focused on the presentation ignoring everything else. I felt a sense of calm after a while, in contrast with the jitteriness of the morning so I knew I was making progress. I was even enjoying the process of putting the presentation together.

Of course, more requests came my way throughout the afternoon but I handled them all. And I have now just left work and finished my presentation for tomorrow. I have a sense of peace and accomplishment now... I know I will have more work to do this evening to practice, but this is just to raise my vibration some more and ensure I am in a high emotional place tomorrow when I deliver it. I feel confident and I know the words will flow.

But, I created all this in the first place, and I guess this is the accumulation of resistance over the past few weeks (hence the cold). One of my questions is how much value is there in telling ourselves we are feeling crap (my guess is it is ok, as long as we try to address the limiting fears and turn the boat around to go with the flow).

Another recurring pattern, at work and in my life, is the expectation of the outcome trips me up. So how do we care for what we do, without caring for the outcome?

With love,
Arnaud


Dear Arnaud,

The outcome forms the conditions that exist in your reality. Since the conditions are always perfect, because they are a perfect reflection of your vibration, then the outcome must always be perfect as well. The outcome is simply another way of saying "condition." The outcome will be the future condition. As you imagine it, you perceive that a good outcome will be better than a bad outcome. Isn't that a funny thing to do? If you judge one outcome as good and another one as bad, then you will really want one outcome to occur over another. That makes no sense to us at all. Can you see this from our perspective?

The moment you judge an outcome as bad, you now allow fear to enter the equation. Fear is the only thing that can bring you out of alignment. In all honesty, you do not want one outcome over the other, all you want to do is exist in alignment in the moment you give your presentation. In alignment, you have all the power you need to do whatever you need to do. In alignment you have the ability to flow infinite intelligence from the nonphysical to the physical realm. If you bring in fear by supposing that one outcome would be preferable to the other, you add in the possibility that you could be pulled out of alignment. Out of alignment, you have no power. So then, it's not a matter of the outcome, it all has to do with fear and alignment. Erase the presence of fear by releasing your judgement of and attachment to any particular outcome.

Imagine if you never gave another thought to the results, only to the performance. If you perform at your peak, you would do so in full alignment. If you performed at your peak, utilizing the forces of the universe, you would bring forth the energy that creates worlds to do what must be done. Now, do you ever need to worry or try to control any of that? If you are here as a tool of the universe and in alignment, and you do what must be done, then the outcome will be perfect for you and for all involved. Because you maintained alignment, you must know for certain that the outcome will be for your highest good, even if you can't easily see that in the moment.

You cannot make a mistake. You cannot fail. You can literally do no wrong. You can judge yourself, your performance and the outcome if you wish. If you choose to do this, you bring in the possibility of fear and you create the possibility of an unaligned state of being. Your question should not be, how to make this presentation (or anything) good, but instead, how to maintain my alignment in order to facilitate the results that best suit all involved. Since you cannot possible know what that is, your judgment of good or bad results is based on no information. Therefore, the judgment itself is meaningless.

Give up your judgment of anything because this brings in fear. Give up your attachment to outcomes, because you can't know what a good or bad outcome would look like. Realize that you do not understand all the moving parts and your access to all the pertinent, behind-the-scenes information is lacking. Realize that you are here now and you are either in alignment or not. You have built up huge resistance around your performance because you self-identify with it. You perceive yourself to be valuable if and when you are good and worthless if and when you are not good. You are good and how you perform (based on your judgment of the results) has nothing to do with anything. You are worthy, and your judgment to the contrary does not serve you. When you ease your attachment to anything, you root out the fear and you make alignment so much easier.

With our love,
We are Joshua

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