Wake Up Call 2

Bits ‘O Wisdom

Here’s a little piece of wisdom I gained from all the years I’ve had to deal with Wake Up Calls from the Universe and from watching other people deal with their lives:

If we have to deal with something often enough, we can shoulder it like it’s nothing – even the terrible burdens. However, if we do, we can also become numb, or at least indifferent to the pattern/way we’re living and this includes the good or pleasant stuff too. When the circumstances are positive/good, we call it “taken for granted”. When they’re negative/bad, we call it stress or, when extreme, trauma.

What’s interesting in both cases is that the state many people find themselves in, is angry. One is easy to understand, the other not so much: Why would someone be angry when their life is a basically pleasant one? It’s pretty simple actually. In both cases, their lives are being led unconsciously. Instead of being awake as they participate in their life deliberately, they’re dozing as they go through the day, only half aware of what’s actually going on. In other words, the traumatized person and the pleasance saturated person, both feel like their true lives have been stolen from them.

Getting Rid of the Grey Woollies

1) We go around doing, choosing and making, through our imaginings, the reality we find ourselves in.

2) We reinforce that reality every moment by the above behaviors.

3) Take a look at any reinforcing statements that keep your reality intact. Not to see if they’re true, but to see if it’s what truly you want.

4) Really ask yourself if you’re living the life you want. Your anger could be growing out of outside assumptions like, “I/you should…”. If this is the case, ask yourself, “If I put that idea aside, do I like my life?”.

5) Really allow and accept who you are, flaws and all.

6) Suspend your disbelief of what is actually possible in the world around you and particularly, what’s possible for you. You don’t need to believe or have faith in anything. Imagine your beliefs and unbeliefs as a coat or cloak that you wrap yourself in (which we all do). Then imagine taking that coat off and putting it on a metaphorical coat peg for a bit as you really look at things. You can always grab them off the peg, any time you like, if it gets to be too much. Just remember that peg.

7) Ask yourself, “Ideal world, ideal day, what would a day in my life look like?” This is usually a very difficult one for people because we’re impeded by the idea at some level within us, that it’s bad to enjoy ourselves. If we ARE living that way, then we must be doing something we shouldn’t. Never mind the whys and wherefores for now (the idea/belief probably came from when we got into “stuff” when we were really little anyway). However, it’s always ok if it’s just playing pretend.

So, pretend for a while that you are living in that ideal world and having an ideal day. Notice all the details in both the foreground and background. Pay attention to your emotions, what you’re doing, who you’re with, everything. Is it fuzzy or crystal clear? Are the colors of your day vivid or dull? Is the picture just that, with a frame and hung on a “wall”, or is it a full scene you, the viewer, are standing in? Or are you in the first person and actually doing what you see? The more directly involved, clear, bright, vivid and emotionally happy you are in your scene, the closer you are to seeing an accurate picture of what you really want. When you get a picture like that, just remember to step back out of the scene. This is because your brain can’t tell imagination from memory and if it’s really congruent, vivid and emotionally powerful, it will tend to think the scene is already accomplished if you don’t “step back” from it. But if you do step back, your brain will understand that what just happened was imagination. It will also want to accomplish it to get back that high.

Honestly, there are more systems involved in this process, but are beyond the scope of this article. However, what I’ve just outlined WILL give you the mechanical results of “wakefulness”.

There’s another thing you should know. When you’ve made up your mind on what you really do want, close the door to “no” and slam it on “maybe”. Don’t lock them, because other things may come up later (other people choose too and the Front Desk may call to let you know you forgot something), but do close them so you can move in your chosen direction of, “Yes. I will do this.”.

Finally, there are 3 questions you must learn to ask yourself frequently and 1 guideline to use at all times.

Guidance for the Wake Up Call

A person’s heart only needs to be guided by two things: Do no harm and, Is this right for me? If you can live by these, then you will start to live in congruence. The more congruent one is within themselves, the more coherent one’s life becomes. The more coherent a life becomes, the more in tune it is with what it truly seeks and needs/wants/desires and the more and faster the universe will respond to what is required because it is a real requirement.

Another thing to know, is that the more congruent and therefore coherent we are, the more attention, intention and focus we place on what outcome we desire.

A person’s mind only needs to be guided by two questions and these are the wake up call: What works? and WHY NOT? Why not: As in, “Why not pursue your dream? Why not enjoy your life? Why not ______ (fill in the blank with what’s missing from your life)? Most people go through life in a grey haze, never really being here nor there. They’re all wrapped up, nice and cozy, in their blankets/cloak/coat (whatever works for you) of beliefs and unbeliefs, dozing their lives away. Keep in mind, most of us start out wide awake and hopeful, but we run into to the two diseases of the status quo: Yeahbutosis and Expertitis. Point out a possibility to sufferers of these conditions and they will say, “Yeah but, it can’t be done, because it’s never been done, so that means it can’t be done and I should know; I’m an expert in my field.” Experts are only experts at what can’t be done in the mind of the one who taught them.

It doesn’t matter what field you’re in or what life you’re leading currently, these two questions, what works? and why not?, are the best at giving us that wake up call to the REAL possibilities that exist around us every moment of every day.