There are a lot of messages around these days about how "You create your own reality." Certainly that is the message in the hit-movie The Secret. And certainly that is a popular message in the personal development community.
But in all fairness to my own life experience, a more accurate statement is: "You are co-creating your reality."
This is my life experience. For two reasons:
(1) There are results I set out to create and I possessed complete alignment in my thoughts, feelings and actions to get the outcome. Nonetheless, in multiple cases I could not create the result, seemingly no matter how easy a slam dunk the outcome "should" have been.
On the other hand:
There are results I've received in my where I had zero, zippo, zilch intention to create, YET, an immaculate outcome came my way.
Look at your life. Does it look like a creation entirely your own, are there times when it looks like there's a guiding hand also at work, sometimes?
Of course we are creating our own reality moment by moment based on our thoughts, feelings and actions. Of course we are.
But what of those times when you know you "should" have gotten the result but it seemed it "wasn't meant to be"? And what of those times when you were on the receiving end of an incredible happening, without any doing on your part?
My life experience tells me that there is also a guiding hand in on my affairs.
Honestly, this is not what I ever set out to believe, or even desired to believe. Yet, when I embrace a rational assessment of how and why my life has unfolded, I see unmistakable fingerprints on my path - at times here and there - of a guiding hand.
I've created many positive outcomes in my life through the power of intention, and good old elbow grease. For these things, seemingly I deserve considerable credit.
But more importantly, I'm benefitted from many positive outcomes in my life for which it would be a real stretch to give myself any credit for. Sometimes life has just handed me remarkable breaks and good guidance on a silver platter.
I don't know what or whom is co-creating with me. I truly don't.
But awareness that my life is a co-creation with something of a mystical
nature gives me great revererance for being open, and open to suggestion.
Perhaps I have guides.
Perhaps some elements of my destiny are pre-determined.
Perhaps I predetermined some of my own destiny in advance.
Perhaps all my dreams are can be real, but the ways in which they
must be unfolded are less straightforward than I can comprehend.
And I feel comfortable adding this to the conversation: I have had strangers approach me multiple times and give me messages that speak directly to my deepest and most private thoughts. You can tell messengers from whacko's and casual commentators. Messengers speak to your soul and say things that feel like a message from God.
Secondly, I've had opportunities present themselves in my life out of the blue that are best described as assignments. Assigments are things that I just know I'm supposed to do. I just know. You can know when you're being assigned to help on something. It becomes pretty obvious. The assignment has a great need for you.
You are not doing your life alone. You are doing your life with a mystical support. Something that wants to help. And something that knows how you can best help. Something that is capable of giving you a leg up when you need it, before you even knew you wanted it. Something that is capable of getting messages to you.
Are you co-creating with God, with angels, with guides, with your own super-conscious? Again, I don't know. But we're dancing with something and when you notice your dance partners influence and help, it's pretty damn cool!
Sharing Success
during my trip to Dallas
Patrick
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11/23/2008 - Free to move about the cabin
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02/06/2006 - Make or Break
01/19/2006 - Live what you love
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08/14/2005 - Failure to reach my goal
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06/17/2005 - Commit & Renounce
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06/11/2005 - Tension & Resolve
06/10/2005 - Love Every Moment
06/08/2005 - Commitment
06/04/2005 - Worth It!
06/01/2005 - Kool Beanz
05/24/2005 - Thanks Eric
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05/18/2005 - Great Jon
05/14/2005 - 2 Steps Up!
05/13/2005 - 1 step back
05/11/2005 - 2nd show in Auckland
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05/09/2005 - Opening Night in NZ
04/29/2005 - Pretty much speechless
04/24/2005 - Coming Soon
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03/17/2005 - Watering Instructions
03/15/2005 - What's In a Year?
03/14/2005 - The Rewards
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03/02/2005 - Not "how?"
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02/14/2005 - Wooo Whoooooo!
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