Bob Proctor said, “The main thing is to keep the
main thing the main thing.” We are best served if the main thing is what we
focus on. So, what is the “main thing?”
Is the main thing one of these: Actions? Beliefs?
Desires? Goals? Results? Nope. The Main Thing is stated in this additional wise
statement by Bob: “Your results are an
expression of your own level of awareness.”
Ernest Holmes can contribute something about this
from his book, The Science of Mind:
“There is a law in physics which says that water will reach its own level by
its own weight. There is a law of metaphysics corresponding to it;
consciousness will externalize at its own level, by its own recognition. We may
call this faith, we may call it embodiment, we may call it whatever we will,
there is something in the Universe which responds and corresponds to our mental
states. Therefore, it is imperative that we turn from the relative, because TO
VIEW LIMITATION IS TO IMPRESS IT UPON THE MIND, and accentuate the state of
consciousness which produced it. It is not always easy to turn from fear, from
poverty and pain, and from the hurt of human existence, to that which is
perfect. But whoever can do this—and will train himself to do it—will be like
the man healed of blindness. He had little comprehension of how it had been done; he could only say:
‘Whereas I was blind, now I see.’” Your primary focus is better placed on
expanding your awareness. Everything else is built upon this. How often
this fact gets lost in the shuffle, a shuffle often tempered with fear and
frustration.
Are you aware of things you can do but aren’t doing, in your own best interest and perhaps in
the best interest of others as well? Are you doing things you really don’t have
to do, but haven’t reached the point of awareness that you don’t have to do
them or accept or allow them? Are you aware that improper focus on results
creates an energetic ripple-effect that impedes your experience and progress?
If too much focus is on desired results (future),
you’re not 100 percent in your present, right-now moment, with all the
opportunities at hand for your benefit. You’re also not fully aware of, which
means you’re not fully appreciating, all that you do have right now (appreciation
is a magnet that draws and delivers your good to you). The most significant things you have with you always are your current
level of awareness and your ability to expand your awareness.
If too much focus is on desired results, you go
into compete-mode: competing with your past and with others; competing to get
more money, material items, satisfaction, and so on, rather than being in
creative-mode, which leads to and results
in all of these. In compete-mode, you struggle. You fret. You take lots of
actions or feel immobilized, driven primarily by panic, fear, frustration, or
doubt.
In creative-mode you use your energy wisely and
follow what you feel inspired and motivated to do, which then leads to
something that benefits you as well as others. When you follow what you’re
inspired and motivated to do, you are joyful and enthused more often than not.
You pay attention differently, which expands your awareness, in each moment.
You appreciate the journey as much or even more than the destination; and, you
are true to yourself.
If having more money or any desired result is a concern—that
is, it causes you to worry—where is
your focus, your energy, your awareness? Likely, NOT aligned with creativity,
enthusiasm, joyfulness, inspired ideas, inspired motivation, much less Trust in
the Source of All Things to operate in and on your behalf. You may stand in the
inner space of all this chaotic energy, using spiritual techniques frantically
(or not) and expect desired results to penetrate that energy and end your
emotional pain and frustration. You may do the same with frantic outer actions
(or not). That’s kind of like expecting to perform at your best while someone
standing next to you is raging at you: you are both the performer and the one
raging. You can expand your awareness about this with this thought: “I can
get anywhere from here,” here being wherever you currently are at the
inner and outer levels.
You may have been lured into a fallacy about
results through flashy-things e-mails that aim at your fears and tell you that
if you do “this,” you (like the sender) can get thousands of dollars or massive
success or whatever form of relief you seek and do so overnight, in one week,
in one month. Maybe you can, but how long was the inner and outer journey to get
where you are now? However long, this doesn’t mean shifts into improved
circumstances will take as long.
Or, you may repeatedly start new paths or projects
then stop doing them just as quickly as you decided to start. This happens
because you are looking, perhaps somewhat desperately, for something to create that shift you so desire. This is also what
many of the books, tapes, videos, and so on that take up, perhaps clutter, your
space are about, which can also sometimes be flashy-things: You seek the magic
“key” that will unlock the innate awareness you already possess, though you may
initially or still believe it is something that has to come from outside of
you, from somewhere or someone. At the very least, let these things stimulate
your thoughts that lead to awareness. Shift yourself first; calm down and allow
your awareness to communicate with you and inspired ideas appropriate for you
to arrive. Then take action you have head-and-heart alignment and genuine
enthusiasm about.
You can easily fall into the trap of focusing on
results, to end your pain or frustration fast, instead of expanding awareness, which
shifts pain into wisdom, which is a far better guide to actions that lead to
improved experiences and results. If your energy is entwined with beliefs that
hold you back and keep you unaware of your true power, even if you use flashy-things
and get some results initially, you’re awareness may not shift and you’ll find
yourself paddling in the same old boat,
perhaps more than once.
And, you’ll repeat similar inner experiences, and
similar outer ones, until you expand your awareness in a way that shifts this.
You’ll continue to focus on what you don’t have or can’t do and not appreciate
what you do have and can do or already do. What you CAN do from the inner level
goes underused, or even ignored, more than put to best use. You continue to
believe the Power is outside of you, which means you don’t expand awareness and
expression of your True Power. Denial of
your true power is the foundation of your discontent. And this behavior
does nothing to strengthen your Self trust or to trust your experiences happen
for a reason, or that you can expand your awareness as a result of them.
A very simple example is when I found I had to
walk in weather that was cold, windy, and rainy and asked myself how I could
expand my awareness about that. My immediate answer was: I can choose how I
“do” weather. I could be unhappy and complain about it or I could find
something to appreciate or focus on a project I was enthusiastic about. Just as
we are not obligated to complain about weather we consider inclement, we are
not obligated to complain about lots of things, rather than do something more
constructive or productive with our time and energy. Alan Lakein said, “Time equals life; therefore, waste your time and
waste your life, or master your time and master your life.”
You may also have been convinced that “fast” is
the way; yet, the contrast that belief creates with the belief in—the trust in—Right
Timing is not recognized and allowed. Do you even perceive the energetic
conflict that particular belief sets up inside of you? Expand your awareness As
You Go. Your results will keep pace, in their right timing for your particular
spiritual purposes. This means some results WILL happen fast; but you frustrate
yourself when you expect every result to do so. This causes you to not pay
attention to the Important Stuff—the opportunities to expand your awareness going
on all the time. Your awareness is the
foundation that underlies everything in your life.
Here are some awareness-expanding questions:
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Do the thoughts, words, actions, FEELINGS I have
(or “feed”) support that the power over my self and my experiences is outside
of me or within me?
§
Should I do what everyone else does, or says I “should”
do, or should I open myself to inspired ideas and motivation about what’s
appropriate for me, based on my head-and-heart alignment, and act from there?
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Does my motivation to take an action come from
inner knowing or from fear? Which will energize me? Which will exhaust me?
§
Am I paying attention to my feelings and what they
attempt to tell me?
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From what level of awareness do I listen and act?
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Do I connect my experiences to my thoughts that
preceded them as often as I might?
Your experiences and results are an expression of
your own level of awareness, which is something you have absolute control over.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Life and how you
choose to perceive and experience life improves when you amp up your awareness.
It’s a good practice, one you’ll appreciate.
Practice makes progress.
© Joyce L. Shafer
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