“World Peace Day
is envisioned to become a moment of global unity—it is up to us to make it a
reality.” ~Jeremy Gilley
After posting a recent essay on giving and receiving, and feeling
complete with the insights I had gained, I happened upon a quote by Indian yogi
and mystic Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev that changed my opinion. I realized immediately that I had only
scratched the surface of this vital and complex issue. Evidently I was meant to dig much deeper to
fully grasp and understand it so I could embrace and share it with others.
His provocative quote says that when we think or say something is
impossible, what we’re actually doing is telling the universe, “No thank
you. We didn’t really want that anyway.”
Some of the “impossible” global examples Vasudev is obviously
referring to are world peace, poverty and hunger, and on an individual level,
perfect health, healthy relationships and prosperity. They remain impossible, he said, because we
hold negative thoughts in our consciousness that cancel out any possibility of
receiving them as a reality.
Vasudev’s quote highlighted what I believe, which is that we live
in an abundant universe that is constantly giving, but many of us, me included,
aren’t always willing to receive. We are the ones blocking the flow by
saying or thinking, in essence, “Never mind, that may happen for someone else,
but not for me.”
One of the yogi’s first questions after making his bold statement
would have to be, why are we withholding good from ourselves? And the next one would be, why would we ever
choose to put such unhealthy and undesirable limitations on the infinite
giving-ness of Spirit and the abundant universe?
My immediate response would be from my own experience: Most of us still don’t know how life on Earth
really works. I lived the first half of
my life as a victim for exactly that reason.
Until I learned the truth in what Jesus taught about It being done unto us as we believe, I
was living by default instead of by design.
In the mid-seventies, this incredible concept had been succinctly
re-stated as: Change your thoughts and
change your life.
And thanks to hundreds of visionary writers and speakers, as well
as many sages and spiritual leaders throughout the ages, we are finally aware
enough to accept this concept. It is
being lived and confirmed by millions of people all over the world, thanks to
all the above and TV’s all-purpose guru Oprah.
As I embraced this truth, I realized that we are the
scriptwriters, the casting directors and directors of our own comedies, dramas
or tragedies. The Universal Life Force,
energy that is in everything and everyone in the universe, is the producer. I finally recognized that I had been trapped
in a victim role with absolutely no idea that the pleas and prayers I spoke
each morning were overshadowed by the negative thoughts I focused on the rest
of the day. The universe sees no
difference between an order that is positive or negative; it only knows to
fulfill it.
The next deterrent to receiving our good from the universe is
directly related to the invalid thoughts, beliefs, needs, feelings and life
patterns that we hold in our subconscious.
These long-forgotten directives determine whether we feel worthy,
deserving, or lovable enough to receive our good.
The solution, from my experience, is to take the time to look
within and start clearing out the negative beliefs we have so that our desires
for a good life can be realized.
Naturally, we also have to know what we want, which many people don’t,
and I didn’t for a long time. Then we
need to clean up our subconscious and align our desires with what is good in
the universe, which means that our desires neither harm nor take from anyone
else. When we can do this and maintain
an anticipation of good, we are open to receiving.
Is it a lot of work to make the impossible possible? Yes.
But the result is so much better than spending a lifetime wishing we
knew why other people were living “charmed” lives and we always ended up with
the short end of the stick. It was never
meant to be that way. This is a blessed,
abundant universe, and it’s time to realize that we were born to have all the
good our hearts desire—and can accept.
Incredible technological and economic changes are taking place in
our world right now and are already affecting every area of our lives. I believe that the “impossible” global and
individual changes that humanity yearns for are imminently possible.
To meet the challenges and opportunities that will alter
humanity’s future one way or another, we need to accept the reality of how life
works and align our thoughts and actions with that awareness. Our lifetime might see the beginning of a
cosmic push-comes-to shove era for human beings. And if we truly want to be
part of this opportunity to create a better world, we must face the fact that
it won’t be zapped on us—it has to
happen through us. We must wake up and realize that by aligning
with the Greater Power within us we can consciously direct the course of our
lives and together make the impossible possible.
Copyright © 2011 by Fern Stewart Welch [Repeated by Request]
The author’s books: “Becoming a Spiritual Warrior of the Heart,”
(April 2013); “Tea with Elisabeth,” (recipient of the 2010 Silver Award for
Non-fiction); “You Can live A Balanced Life In An Unbalanced World,” (Nov.
2008); “The Heart Knows the Way …” (Feb. 2008), and are available on
Amazon.com, online booksellers and bookstore chains such as Barnes &Noble.
