Real Life & a Vision Board Coming to Life

How is this for REAL, Ray?

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It all just happens when we are not looking but secretly wishing.  I live in great delight that what now lies ahead of me is the rest of the vision board!!  WAAAAHooo!  You can see a scanned copy here.

Life is looking up!

Up Stream

The Art of Allowing. I had a conversation on the weekend with George. George is intuitive, intelligent and tuned in to an expanded line of thinking. My ego showed up and was excited for the first time in over 2 years that I was able to stump him. Then I saw it as my ego and giggled. George tells you what you need to hear whether you are ready to hear it or not. Usually what he says sinks in a few days later after he has planted the thought…whatever it may be. But it is always said cause he loves you and sees that it would benefit you.

George’s point on Saturday was that there was a difference in Manifesting and Allowing. Manifesting being something that our ego would try to do, having to make things happen – and this could be imagined as trying to row up stream in a fast moving river. George believes that Allowing or being present in the now is much more successful in getting more out of life. Reaching our full potential by allowing rather than trying to manifest, according to him, was a better idea. My thoughts on the matter, at the time was that they were one in the same. Manifesting what you wanted or desired was part of opening up and allowing yourself to receive. Not manifesting what you wanted, for me, was that you were believing that you did not deserve it or had blocks in truly receiving.

Funny how there never seems to be coincidences, for when I snuggled into my Monday morning I replayed an audio file I had from Abraham/Hicks and it was on the Art of Allowing. So there was a theme to my weekend…

Their point in the audio file was that – nothing I or you want is ‘up stream.’ I have heard this saying before but it is not until you are really ready to get it that it feels like an epiphany. We get in our little canoe and we just start paddling – automatically operating or existing in life just as we have been taught.

I know what rowing upstream looks like for me……canceled meetings, missed calls, the person you so desperately want to speak to leaving 5 minutes before you get there, me trying to make things work, defining what I think would work for my life and my business. You could have a great boat, rowing gloves, strong ores and determination and we try harder, we think we have to do all this creating and manifesting all by ourselves when that is not the case at all.

What does up stream look like for you? It is you constantly trying to make things happen. Planning scheming, moving forward with determination and passion, thinking you know exactly where you are going. Getting all of your ducks in a row. Well, just when you think – think being the operative word here – you have all of your life in order or the ducks lined up, if it is not in alignment with who are, where you are really meant to be going, the ducks will fly south on you. No matter how determined you are and try and try and try harder to manifest what you want or what you think you want.

So trying to do anything sends you up river. It is like walking though peanut butter, too much of your valuable energy is spent. So up stream rowing looks like struggles with finances, physical hardship, missed promotions, missed opportunities. So why on earth would we want to continue to row against the natural flow of the universe? The flow of our life? Because we didn’t think that there was anything else to do but to row up stream. That is how we were raised. My mother lived life this way, her mother and her mother before her.

Now with this awareness we have the decision to let go of the ore all together remove the rowing gloves and allow ourselves to receive. Art of releasing resistance, the art of allowing your purpose to flow through you. Negative feelings mean that you are not in alignment of who you are or your purpose. We can struggle and strive and grow our muscles to row your boat up stream. But as we all know the river of life and the flow of current runs through the path of least resistance!

So let go of your ores. Stop trying to make things happen. Trust your internal compass – your feelings or your gut, your intuition. This is the guidance that serves you best. You may say well I don’t know clearly what that feeling or intuition ‘sounds like’. Trust me, it gets clear the more you ask the question – does this feel right for me? It is like when someone asks you to do something and you really don’t have the time or resources to do it but you say yes anyway. That feeling you felt prior to you saying yes is your internal barometer you will being to hone.

Here’s to letting go of the ores and allowing abundance to flow to an through me.

Happy Receiving!

Ty