Hi %$firstname$%,
and welcome! This week is the last edition of my newsletter for the month of
May. We have been discussing tools that can assist us with making changes and
new choices in our lives. This week I would like to discuss what occurs when
the cycle is complete. When we are ready to begin the process over again we
may find we have amnesia and can't remember our past successes. We may also
find that we have forgotten how to leave our current box behind.
We have amnesia
A
great many plots for books and movie scripts are built around a character who
has had some sort of trauma, maybe a bump on the head, that caused them to
forget who they are. It’s called amnesia.
It is interesting to look at why we are
so intrigued by that sort of plot. We find the concept so fascinating because
at some level of consciousness we know this is the story of our lives. We all
have amnesia. Why do I say that? As an individualization of God we have the
power to create new realities at will but how often do we remember we have
that power?
We have forgotten how powerful we are.
We have been creating new realities all our lives but we keep forgetting how
really powerful we are. This is the process:
- We make
a BEING choice that launches a great new reality.
- We
manifest those new circumstances.
- We
revel in our new creation for a while, and then…
- We once
again become attached to whatever reality we’ve created and forget who we
really are.
At some point during this creative
process we have been programmed to forget we have the power to change our
circumstances with a new BEING choice. Once again we are trapped in a reality
of our own making and take no responsibility for having created our
predicament.
Notice that once we have lost our power
of choice, we have amnesia and there will appear to be “no way out”.
Why we develop amnesia.
The Game of Life is set up in a way that encourages our continued growth in
consciousness. The process seems to require that we go in and out of
consciousness.
For instance, in order to grow our
consciousness, we must choose out of our box. Think about that choosing-out
step for a moment. We will see that before we can choose out of our box, we
must be IN that box, experiencing life from that point of view.
We must assume we develop amnesia each
time out of the box, so we can experience the current reality as thought it
were real. Then, when ready for a change, we will have that “ah ha!” moment
once again, and rediscover our power of choice. Each trip out of the box
brings us to a new level of conscious awareness.
With each out-of-the-box venture, we will
grow a little more aware of our true identity. But, with each time out, we
have merely created a bigger box in which to play at the Game of Life. We
create our new box, live in it for a while, become attached and remain stuck
until we find the courage to detach and move on. What’s the point of all this?
Imagine climbing a grand staircase and
with each step we are allowed to gain a whole new perspective on life. And
from that new level of self-awareness we would just have to spend some time
enjoying life in that exciting new reality with our brand new view of life.
The creative process
Growing our consciousness is never a giant leap to the top of the staircase.
It is just a process we take to the next step, choosing out of our box
whenever we are ready to detach from the status quo and move on.
That “ah ha!” moment – our growth in
consciousness – will happen in the moment when we have once again, awakened to
the realization that we have the power to choose to be US in a brand new way –
in an exciting new reality.
The creative process for mankind is BE DO
HAVE. This is the only order of creation that works for us, and each step in
the creative process is essential to the next step. We can’t skip any of the
steps. We must BE before we can DO and DO before we can HAVE.
When we get stuck
It is in the HAVING part of the cycle that we become attached, and then we are
stuck, unwilling to let go of our attachment to the status quo. Detaching is
essential to the creative process and it is the most difficult step. Notice
that we cannot get where we want to be without leaving where we are now.
To grow our consciousness, we must move
beyond the HAVING and into a new way of BEING us. To create the space for
being US in a brand-new way, we must be able to destroy our attachments to
whomever and whatever we have become attached.
This does not mean we must destroy a
relationship in order to detach. Nor does it mean we must give up all
possessions before choosing something new. It does mean we must detach from
needing him, her, or it, so we can then experience a life in a different
context. Once detached, we will still have it all, but we are no longer coming
from need.
If we want life to get better in some
way, detachment from our current identity will provide us with the opportunity
to be us in a brand-new way.
Create Persist Destroy
To better illustrate why we develop amnesia from time to time, let’s look at
the BE DO HAVE creative process as a series of out-of-the-box adventures.
BE DO HAVE, as a repeating cycle, is now
CREATE PERSIST DESTROY. In comparing the two, BE becomes CREATE; DO becomes
PERSIST; and HAVE becomes DESTROY. (Once we have it, IT has us.)
The cycle can begin again just as soon as
we are able to detach. Once we have learned to HAVE and not be attached to the
HAVING, we will be a free soul. And once again, we will be free to move onto
our next daring adventure.
I hope you can see that once we are
hooked, locked into the status quo, the HAVING has us. Once again, we will
have developed amnesia and our ego is back in charge. Ego will then play its
trump card called, “We are now stuck in the status quo, and there is no way
out. “
Have a great weekend!
DAREL
