Dec 14
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It's OK you can come out of the box...bring your mind.
The freedom to think “outside the box” is the formula for inventiveness and creativity and for just making life generally a whole lot more interesting. How each of us gets to that freedom is the key issue in this lesson.
CEO, Ryan Bruce, of the publishing company that produces the books which I transcribe, under the pseudonym, Brad Cullen, and I tend to approach things so differently that it creates a tension between us from time to time. Because we share a single belief we, with relative ease, are able to resolve any issues that arise from that tension.
That belief is quite simple, just like Albert Einstein; we believe we can get answers to our habit-pattern interrupt question, “what now” from what Uncle Al referred to as “the ether.” Rather than ether, some might be more comfortable using another term …I tend to like “intuition” (primarily because it means, literally, “The Teacher within”), others like “the sub-conscious” or even “super-conscious parts of the minds of these body-bags we occupy, others prefer some word that implies a Supreme Being or Deity. By capitalizing Inner Teacher, you’ll take the hint that this latter is my tendency.
Honor your inner wisdom, seek it with all your power.
I do also, however, on occasion, direct my “what now” question to old MEGA-me, my affectionate title I have labeled the sub/super conscious part of the mind of this body-bag I occupy. If any or all of this sounds confusing, you could clear it up by getting a copy of my latest book, Integration of the Mind, because that’s the whole point of it.
I capitalize The Teacher Within, by the way, meaning, only, that it is beyond my conscious ability, currently, to understand or explain how HE/IT/SHE provides direction and answers.
I refer to this Inner Teacher in ways that Ryan suggests are unnecessary distractions, the HE/IT/SHE above being a prime example. To which I often reply smartly, “You’re the publisher.” The fact is that, whatever the reason, I’m able to get into a zone of creativity for not only writing, but for emotional and physical healing power which I insist comes directly from the SOURCE of all healing and is not “me” performing anything (period).
Even in a question of life and death.
I’m not insisting that anyone join me in this approach to the zone of creativity and healing …nor should anyone feel that I am imposing it on them. In meeting with my “Board of Directors” this morning the reminder was loud and clear …replace either/or with BOTH/AND. The reason Ryan and I have been able to work effectively with one another for going on seventeen years (when many, many, others find either of us rather difficult to work with), is the mutual respect we have for one another’s ways of processing things.
I have a rather simple formula that I have repeated over and over in healing sessions whether in a group or with individuals and, literally, all around the world and, as a result, watched seeming healing miracle after healing miracle take place, sometimes in the strangest ways and almost always so that I couldn’t take any credit for having done anything …was asking the question: “Why are we here?” …and the answer from somebody in the group or an individual who had come to me for “healing” …that answer almost invariably leads to the next part of the formula …my silent plea as to what do I do now?
Is yesterday's miracle today's disaster?
This is the profound change that takes place in me as I listen, hear and follow instructions, no matter how I may resist them intellectually. I can give you some rather wild examples, but it doesn’t matter because each group or individual is totally different and I have learned, FOR ME, that what produced yesterday’s miracle is a prescription for today’s disaster …the instruction is always for each new situation, with each new individual or group. I, thus, avoid healing systems or other formulas like the plague.
Does this mean that somebody else’s pet formula is incorrect? The answer to that question is an emphatic NO! My fourth lesson, again, is to replace the tendency to think that it has be this or that with an openness that BOTH/AND leads to freedom to get results and either/or tends to be a prison of limitation, which Ryan refers to as “one dimensional” thinking.
My fifth lesson, next up, has to do with one of my approaches to getting out of the rut of “one dimensional” thinking and limitation. Stay tuned.
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