This article is not about planning for the future, neither our personal desired future nor our desires for the future of the world. Why? Because we have been trying to prepare for the future for thousands of years and in so many ways it has not worked at all. We think we know what kind of future to prepare for. We think we can control our world enough to create a future of our liking. The real problem with this is that these efforts and struggles are almost all coming from our false personalities that operate out of fear, our ego selves that have a false sense of importance and are delusional in thinking they are in charge. Yes, we come up with some good ideas but then the world shifts and that good idea doesn’t pan out. Why? Because our false personalities are not privy to the actual architecture of our lives known only to our essence selves. This architecture includes agreements made prior to this life, karma or unfinished business that on an essence level we have determined to complete in this life, and lessons that are up for learning in this life, plus our predetermined life task work. That we choose on an essence level.
There are those that might argue that planning is important and necessary when it comes to going into business or going on vacation or planning for a family, for example, and this is true to a degree. Planning is important when it comes to selecting a destination for your vacation, buying plane tickets in advance while they are less expensive, and preparing a wardrobe for the season and place you are going. You don’t want to end up in Alaska in Springtime without a good jacket. Short term planning can be helpful but it is the long-range plans that get us into more trouble. The young woman says “I will go to university and study law and take the bar exam and then I will meet my husband or wife to be and we will get married and have two healthy children blah blah”. Good luck with all that. What does your false personality know, next to nothing.
Lest you protest too much I should qualify one thing before going on. I am specifically focusing on personal planning, not the planning that governments and organizations do for handling big operations like feeding the hungry, addressing climate change, preparing for inevitable natural disasters and the like. This is a whole different matter. But when you plan your personal escape to your bunker in case of nuclear war you are mostly deluding yourself. Keep in mind that this choice is based on fear. First of all, you are indirectly voting for nuclear war by planning for it. Second of all there is no guarantee at all that you will even remotely be in position to access your bunker in time. There goes that vacation in Tahiti or business trip to London. You might as well be hovering at the door to your bunker for the rest of your life.
Going back to our example of the fictional young woman who is planning her life, let’s look at the fictional architecture that only her essence knows. Law school and being a lawyer has nothing to do with her life task work, which has to do with being a high-tech innovator of brain communication with the movement of artificial limbs. In this life she is so fascinated with this field and works so hard that she does not marry and never gets around to having the two kids. Instead, she has a series of relationships that help her complete some karma, keep some agreements to facilitate and help certain individuals. In addition, she learns some powerful but challenging lessons about keeping good boundaries. Disappointing? She might think so because of her early expectations but this turns out to be a very productive life in so many ways.
In a way, so many of us are fools when it comes to knowing what is best for us. Expectations placed upon us by the culture and by ourselves constantly get in the way. The only way to counteract this is to become quieter mentally and learn to listen to the signs and signals that essence is constantly communicating to us about our natural direction if we would only pay attention. So yes, taking a vacation from the endless jabber of thinking is a good idea, frankly necessary to allow your light to shine from your heart of hearts.
What helps us bring this about? Well, there is a whole medicine chest of processes for this, so I will just outline a few here because, in a way, that is all it takes. What good are a thousand tools when all you need is a wrench, a screwdriver, a hammer, a prybar, and a drill so to speak? Your tools, in this case, are quieting down, watching, and listening and then moving with grace and ease.
The first order of business is getting our house in order. Clearing out the family icons (programming), erasing the fear patterns, releasing the limiting beliefs, clearing the bad habits and energy leaks to become fully efficient. Wow! That’s quite a bit. Better get started. This doesn’t happen tomorrow or yesterday. It all happens in the present by simply observing what’s there and what is in the way that is making us miserable without judging it. We watch and study it without fighting it, resisting it, or necessarily trying to fix ourselves. Yes, we may have to take some action like seeing a counselor, attending AA meetings or whatever but not for the purpose of fixing our broken selves. Our true self is not ever broken.
It is important to know that fear and a belief in separation that spawns our fears are the biggest obstacles that humans have ever and will ever face. Fear only begets more of the same. When you are told to be afraid you can know that you are being lied to. This is very different from using discernment. You don’t hold the handrail on steep stairs because you are afraid. You hold it because it is the intelligent thing to do.
In this way we discover our personal power, always within us at all times, just veiled behind some layers of dirt and perhaps garbage. From a place of being empowered and self-authorized we can then ask the right questions, “What is my medicine? What is it that makes me happy? What do I like that I am also skilled at, and when I do it everyone likes that I do it for them?” Answering these questions naturally helps us to walk the path with heart. It simply begins to flow out of us because it is based on what is actually true.
The next step is finding support. Who is our support team? How do we identify what support looks like? Maybe failing the bar exam supports you in finding your true life task. How do we activate support? Simply by saying yes to it.
Next is learning to work with the quantum field, what indigenous people call the Spirit World. This is just learning the mechanics of how the physical universe works. It helps to ask the right questions, not necessarily helpful to have all the information first. “How could it be that I discover my life task work and this makes me extremely successful and happy? Why are my relationships so deeply satisfying and fulfilling to me? What if I discovered the secret to being fulfilled beyond my wildest dreams? What if I discovered myself to be generously loving and welcoming of love coming to me from all directions? How can it be that I am so healthy and get healthier with each passing year?
You see, the quantum field works by answering questions, without questions it just sits there like a library waiting for requests for books. The quantum field is activated by questions and provides just the amount of information needed to get you rolling until you need more. You can see then that it is not a good idea to ask such questions as “I wonder if I am going to go bankrupt? Is my spouse is going to leave me? Could it be that I am going to get fired?”. You do not have to ask these questions out loud. They activate the quantum field if you just entertain them in your thoughts on a regular basis. Quieting your thoughts is an excellent idea.
Finally, asking questions about the world you would like to see is a good idea. What if tyranny were to collapse leading to a cooperative and supportive world where people all celebrated their differences? If Spirit wanted no differences, we would all be clones, one big factory. Pretty uninteresting, don’t you think?