Yesterday I wrote about contrast. Big fat, juicy contrast is so incredibly challenging, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. In my own case, it is coming down to the wire in which I will need to make an immediate decison, and I don’t know what that answer is.
Nagging at me is the message I received on my walk yesterday. Literally I was headed down one path, but the message came, “No, don’t go there this morning.” Was that a metaphor for the decision I thought I had made? Is this intuition trying to get my attention?
A friend and I swapped “contrast stories” last night. Isn’t it incredible how beautiful life can be on one hand, and yet, what is all this muck on the other? One thing is for sure, everybody experiences contrast. The difference is in how we deal with it, and how we deal with it lays out the next steps on our path of personal evolution.
In my own situation, I have been pulling out all the stops – all the tools in the tool box. I had already mentioned a few of them: meditating twice a day on it, asking for help, surrendering it to God and the Angels, working to maintain an upbeat attitude about it, thanking it for what it is doing to cause me to expand, asking what are the lessons I am to learn through this? I have a few more tools to share…
When someone is experiencing contrast, it is best not to tell them what to do. It is best to listen intently and reflect back to them a question which allows them to think through the process and figure it out themselves. At noon yesterday I spoke with my son about my contrast. How did he respond? “Well, Mom, what do you think you should do about it?” Darn kid, he has been listening to me preach through the years after all. I replied, “I don’t know. I simply don’t know yet.” I decided to relax about it, knowing that the answer will come when the timing is right.
I attended the second class of the Munay Ki last evening. At one point in the class, the instructor passed around a bowl and asked us each to take two toothpick-sized sticks for our fire burning ceremony. On one stick you breathe out all the things you want to release, and then you burn it. Then you take the next stick and breathe out all the things you want to bring into your life, and then you burn it. Guess what I loaded my sticks with?
When I got home, I had just a few minutes to read before it was time to retire. I felt an overwhelming sense to read a few pages in Doreen Virtue’s book, Healing with the Angels. Where I last left off was at the next chapter, “Nature and Animal Angels.” I immediately felt content since I love Nature, thinking this would be a perfect few pages for me to read and relax before going off to sleep. I found the information very intriguing. It reminded me that I have some unopened nature oracle cards downstairs. I made a mental note to take a look at those in the morning.
Before heading to the 5:30 am Jazzercise class, I read the morning message from Abraham-Hicks:
“When the contrast gets greater, the desire gets greater too, and that’s what miracles are from. A miracle is nothing more than a terrible situation that has caused strong desire and then somehow an alignment of Energy with the desire. Every day life creativity, that’s all that it is.
— Abraham”
Hmm, interesting.
When I got home from class, I opened my email again. This time there was a message from tut.com:
“How is it Rosie, that with so many brilliant beings on your planet, so few recognize that when one’s life encounters turbulence, choppy waters, or setbacks, it’s always a sign that things are about to get wildly better than they’ve ever been before?
And I’m not talking about the dolphins.
Don’t fight it,
The Universe”
Hmm, very interesting. OK, that’s two messages now this morning.
Oh yeah, what about those oracle cards? I found them, shuffled the deck, and guess which one popped out? I am totally stunned by the reading on the card that flipped out. It absolutely nails my personal situation…and gives recommended guidance on how to repair it.
Sherlock Holmes, I’m hanging in there with you. OK, perhaps this is what I am meant to do. I’ll follow this lead…and look for the miracle and for things to get “wildly better.”
