Why not resist?

The concept of non resistance has been around for a long time. Since the advent of civilized thought, I think. Yet much has been done, great advances have been made by “”making it right, being aggressive and proactive, getting there before your rival does…

The whole modern world appears to be a result of “showing them what you’ve got”, with its inferred load of resistance, force, and disagreement, stepping on each other to get to the top.

When we look at cosmic law – from which the current Law of Attraction and its underlying principles have been taken – there is one of those principles that stands out. It is the principle of Non Resistance. As we know, what we focus on we get more of. What we resist, persists, becomes more solid, grow bigger, etc. When these principles are applied to an unwanted or negative situation or event it is obvious that paying more attention to the situation in hand, “pushing against it”, becoming obsessed with thinking about it, trying to force it away, will result not only in a situation that is even more “real” than it was when it started out (“real” here meaning in your face, taking up enormous space in your life) but it also creates ongoing similar situations that are then faced with, until you lose your footing and collapse in a heap under the weight of your self created catastrophe. You can of course push your way through it as nothing lasts forever, but the result would be something that is built of the vibration of force, unpleasantness, and resistance that preceded it. This is not a happy situation. Nor can it ever be. And this makes for countless human beings all doing it, all vibrating effort, and of course this leads to a world of which the foundation and structure is nothing but effort.

Is there an easier way to do this? Yes, of course there is, though we apparently are unable to see that anything simple can do the trick.

The easier way is the way of non resistance. And it works in the same way as it’s opposite. What we focus on, we get more of. What we ignore, cannot exist vibrationally since we are not creating it by paying attention to it (we do create our own reality!)

And so when we are confronted by something that feels bad, needs to be sorted out, looks like the beginning of a small war – and could become a large war – we have a choice. We can either resist it, try and sort it out, try to think obsessively about how to handle it, become really concerned and anxious, try to use force etc… or we can think straight for a minute by stepping around our emotional reaction, and then KNOW that resistance will bring us more of the same. And because it’s simple does not mean it won’t work. It will.

And it does. And it takes us quickly (or much quicker) to a solution of our problem, to an outcome, when we allow ourselves to step into the silence in which all answers are to be found.

Nina Ferrell 2010

What is truth?

Truth is an important concept for us. It confirms that what we observe, is, and that it remains so. It gives us a sense of security, and it allows us to develop trust in a person, a situation, an event, a government. He/she is keeping his word, he/she talks the truth, we are starting to trust that person. The actual “truth” is that truth is just as changeable as everything else, as change is the only constant in our universes.

We are not at the mercy of something or someone outside us – and while this may and usually does give us a sense of isolation at first, as soon as we really GET that every incident, person and situation exists because of our vibration on that level and our attracting it, we also understand that we can only have truth in our lives if we are truth. We can only have peace if we are peace, and we can only live in a world of peace if our dominant vibration is one of peace. We start ccepting that what lies outside us, apparently, is our creation and that the only way to effect change is to CHANGE OURSELVES.

And this is the work of our lives. Attaining a mindset of total non resistance , total acceptance of all we create in our lives, being both the participant and the observer – a blended being – is where we are going. All is change. We are change. And we do not need the permanency of unchanging circumstances. We are learning how to step into the energy that we are, consciously gaining the ability to see our lives from the mindset of our Inner Being as well, while we learn how to create lives that are more joyful… as soon as we realize that everyone in our lives are part of ourselves, and that the integration of those parts of us, makes it easier for us to become whole, to heal.

Nina Ferrell 2010

Seekers

We are seekers. We are all seekers. We all wake up some time to seek that which we came here to experience, which is the blissful, painful experience of finding Ourself, nothing more and nothing less than the sum total of all we have lived, and will always live, the God, the one that all is part of.

When we don’t know it yet, we still seek. We seek within that which we are aware of.. we seek a better job, a bigger car, a lovely house.

Then we circle out further, and we seek within the circle of our emotions… we start seeking happiness. We look for someone to love, so that we can be loved back. We are aware of greater emptiness. We then realize that the source of our happiness is temporal.

It does not remain with us. And if it remains with us in form, it deserts us emotionally. Its intensity fades, its beauty does not remain with us. We lose it, it is stolen, and we mourn its absence in our lives.

We, at this point, are facing a fork in the road. One road leads to numb acceptance that there is nothing more, since our world remains temporal, incomplete, and we must accept this with sadness. We remain in sad, hopeless relationships, we work our waking hours away, we sell our souls to be able to find happiness. We become like rats on treadmills, and we wait for the setting sun of our lives.

The other road appears to lead in the same direction, but on this road doors appear, leading to other places, other worlds. We will choose one door that appeals to our personality, be it a certain religion, a deeper love, an intense interest which overrule our sadness. The doors may lead to greater loss, but still the road leads us forward, and we start understanding that our gain lies in understanding our losses and seeing beyond disappointment. That we are alchemists, able to transform all that we perceive from lead to gold. That no loss is permanent, that all happens NOW including that which we call death, and that we are bound by the love of our hearts, which is God perceived in the only real way, which is through our infinite knowing.

Nina Ferrell 2010.

Getting God

As we progress from forced religion, dogma, through disgust and disillusionment, to spirituality, unfolding, and finally bliss and understanding, we lose God, and then we start getting God. That much maligned name – God. The name called by so many in their deep misery, at their last moments, at the time of great and intense happiness, numinous epiphanies that hit us like lighting bolts from the blue.

I get God. I get God/Source/Goddess/Yahwe/Yah Mo, whatever.

The name matters not. He/She/It/We/I am bliss – deep flowing illuminating intense joyful uplifting finally knowing connection to Source – final connection to Me.

And God gets bigger as I understand more. God is never judgemental, never punishing – how could He be? He gave Us all the tools do to it all ourselves – We Are Him. Every cell is Him. And He is in our every breath.

Oh my God, I finally get You. I get You. I understand.

Loving the simple days

We are working so hard at being happy, at consciously creating our lives, at following the LOA and reading, reading, reading…

And while we are doing this, and assisting others, and finding our path (sometimes not), and going two steps forward and one step back and getting angry at ourselves and turn ourselves into pretzels. things happen, unbeknownst, almost, to us.Those things are the simple days. The shuffle by, unnoticed, quietly shrugging to themselves, wearing their little grey overcoats one after the other, after the other.

Maybe this is what we are missing, what we have been missing , all along. They are jewels, the simple days. They are what we are living while we are trying to live… they are the ones with the surprises we don’t see, the miracles we simply rush past, and the help we don’t give. We are so busy just wanting it all to be perfect.

Stop and look. Take one of these simple days and dust it off. Take off its little overcoat and put it in the sun for a minute. See how it flowers suddenly, see those bright green leaves and the way it turns its heart towards the sun? See how good it feels just to be for a minute, without rushing, and hoping, and wanting?

These simple days are our lives. They are us. We create them. Let’s settle down sometimes and just BE them.