11/23/2024
I get it, life can be hard. It doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t seem fair. So it’s sensible to start believing that life just sucks and bad things happen, and that’s just the way it is. And sometimes, that’s true. However, when we start to say things like, “Of course this would happen to me!”, when a negative event occurs, we start to solidify that belief system. Our Reticular Activating System starts to scan the world for similar negative scenarios, increasing the number of them in our experience. The quantum principle of “like attracts like”, starts to respond back to us the exact emotional vibration that we are emanating.
Particles of a similar frequency want to resonate and dance with each other. When we can understand that we are not separate from our reality, but are in intimate relationship with it at all times, we can then fully grasp how we are not powerless victims of circumstance, but are powerful co-creators of our existence—that we can set the dial of our radio receiver to whatever station we desire.
It’s tricky. Because it’s vitally important to not run from any emotions that come up, but to really sink into them and face them fully—allowing them to move through us and integrate into our being accordingly. If we can do this, we have a better chance of responding more consciously. It’s when the emotions are too great to bear, that we push back and have resistance, and feel the only response is to be a victim (acupuncture can help with this). But if we can hold these emotions, and still remember that we are powerful beyond measure, this is when we can steer the ship back on course.
It’s important to not take this too far the other way and think that life is punishing you or that you are responsible for every bad thing that happens. That’s another way we can sneakily play the victim. S**t happens. It depends on what stories we then tell ourselves, and how we take responsibility for what we are creating in our response. More s**t? Or compost for something generative and constructive.
In practicing this, we can create momentum to work with the flow of life, and not so much against it, creating a richer, beautiful, and more meaningful experience.
