What If I Was Stuck Here Forever?

Someone once said that the only corner in the universe that we have the power to change is our own consciousness.

I recently found myself in a condition in which I experienced a lot of resistance. After having stewed in that negativity for a while, a beautiful and powerful question popped into my mind. I invite you to join me as we explore the immense power of that particular question. A question with the potential to move us powerfully along the Path to Freedom. Namaste.

Transcript

Blessings and welcome to the path to freedom.

My name is Daniel Rucchio and as always I'm deeply grateful and honored that you're choosing to tune in to this particular space,

That you're choosing to join me.

Out of all the choices available you are choosing to be here with me,

Which I truly appreciate.

For a moment of expanding our consciousness,

A moment of raising our vibration,

Allowing for the peace and the love and the joy and the harmony and abundance that is eternally and perpetually surrounding us and inherently within us in every single moment to come forth,

To flow through us,

To emerge from within us.

Today,

Or actually today's topic,

Is what if I was stuck here forever.

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Any question mark.

And this has something to do.

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So what if I was stuck here forever?

And this has something to do with I had an experience or I have had an experience over the last week or so where I have been in an immense amount of resistance where a particular condition was concerned.

I have been fuming and stewing in negativity and resentment and anger and frustration over this situation being what it is.

I've had so many thoughts and stories as to what should and should not be.

And while I've been aware of this,

I've been simultaneously trying to manipulate and trying to change this particular condition to make it,

To turn it into what I want it to be or what I thought I needed it to be for me to be in peace,

For me to be in joy,

For me to be in harmony and all of these beautiful divine qualities.

And a number of days ago,

A couple of days ago,

Or maybe it was even yesterday,

I became aware it popped into my mind a question,

A beautiful question,

Of which the topic of this particular talk is the beginning of that question.

And the question goes,

If I was to be stuck here forever,

What would I have to change within myself in order to be able to live with myself?

If I was stuck here,

If nothing were to change on the external level,

Where my conditions are concerned,

Where my experiences are concerned,

Where my situations are concerned,

Where another individual is concerned,

If everything on the outside were to stay the same forever,

For all eternity,

What would I need to change within myself for me to be able to live with myself?

And this question,

It's an old question,

I don't think I've talked about it,

It's not come up in any of these talks before,

But it's an old question,

I think it was originated or at least I've heard it from Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith,

And this question sort of popped me out of the bubble that I was in,

Out of the cocoon of negativity,

Out of the stew of negativity.

It popped me out of it,

No,

It did not,

But it created an opening.

I was still fuming,

I was still stewing in all this negativity,

I was still in resistance,

I was still trying to manipulate and bang in my head against the wall trying to change the external.

But this question got me back,

It brought me back to what is mine to do and what was mine to do in this experience,

That it was not mine to do to try to change the external condition.

Like that saying goes,

If I for instance don't like my workplace or the city I'm living in or the relationship that I'm in,

And I make the choice to leave that workplace or city or condition and go to another place,

Find another job,

Find another relationship,

Find another city to live in,

I will be bringing myself,

I will always be bringing me.

And as the world is always nothing but a reflection,

A beautiful reflection of where I am in consciousness,

Where we are in consciousness,

If I continue to bring me,

If I continue to hold myself up with my perceptions,

My beliefs,

My stories,

My thoughts as to what should and should not be,

If I continue to hold that up in front of the mirror,

What will I be seeing?

Well I will,

Wherever I go,

Whenever I go,

I'll always be seeing me being reflected in the mirror.

So if I want the condition to change,

If I want to allow for more peace or more joy or more harmony or more abundance or more wholeness or whatever the case may be,

If I want more of that,

Then I need to make that change,

I need to become that,

Be it the change I wish to see.

And so in this particular condition,

As this question popped into my mind and I was sort of pulled out of the reaction and into responding mode,

I did a little bit of the freedom process,

I asked myself what would be the highest possibility here and now?

And the highest possibility,

Once,

And I had done this before,

I had asked myself this question before and I had always thought that the highest possibility was for this condition to be dissolved,

For this condition to be changed,

That was what I caught as the highest possibility.

But now as I came back to the nowness in this moment,

As I was able to stand in the nowness in this moment observing,

Witnessing what was going on in my mind,

A different answer came to this question.

So I asked what would be the highest possibility here and now in this condition and the answer that came was for me to be in peace.

Now if I was to stay in this condition forever,

If I was to be stuck in this condition forever,

If nothing were to change on the outside and the highest possibility for me in this condition was to be in peace,

Then obviously the question,

The second question was what do I need to release and let go of and what do I need to cultivate and develop within myself to be in peace?

And the answer that came to that question or those questions was simply to choose peace,

To choose peace,

To stop banging my head against the wall,

To stop trying to turn conditions in this particular condition into what I want it to be or what I wanted it to be,

To stop trying to manipulate and go to the source which is always me,

Come back to the source.

So I needed to choose peace.

I'm not saying that I've moved all the way through it.

I still experience resistance.

I still get pulled into that reaction but now I know that that is not the answer and I'm actually a little bit not embarrassed but it's interesting for me to notice I've been on this path for so many years,

I've done a lot of work around releasing my attachment to my stories and releasing attachment to things being the way I want them to be and yet I got so caught up by this and this went on for,

I don't know,

A couple of weeks or something like that where I was absolutely stewing and fuming in this negativity.

So it's very interesting how easy it is for the ego to get a hold of us and reel us in into reaction,

Into reaction mode.

It's very interesting.

But I'm emerging from this and as always,

Every single challenge that we face is always a gift and a blessing of transformation.

So I'm emerging a lot more spiritually muscled.

My spiritual muscles have been strengthened.

My awareness have been increased.

So I've learned,

This was like a boot camp.

It was not very nice to go through it.

I did not enjoy it at all but now that I have gone through it,

It's a different me that emerges.

My consciousness has been expanded.

My vibration has been lifted.

And I give it all credit to this beautiful question.

If I was to stay stuck in this condition forever,

What would I need to change within myself?

It's always about the inside.

It's always about that which is within.

What would I need to change within myself to be able to live with myself forever?

That is a beautiful question.

And I love how it points to the source.

How it points to the only corner of the universe.

Someone once said that the only corner of the universe that any one of us can ever change is ourselves.

So I love how this question pointed me to the only corner of the universe that I could actually change,

That I actually have the power to change,

That I actually have control over.

I have no control over external conditions and circumstances.

I have no power over them.

Absolutely I can move myself into vibration alignment with the good that I desire,

Calling that forth.

But even then,

When and how of the manifestation,

It is not up to me.

It's not under my control.

I don't have power over any of that.

But I do have power.

I do have absolute authority over my mind,

My consciousness,

My vibration.

This,

My dear friends,

This is freedom.

Taking back our minds,

Doing what we need to do to allow for the peace that is here,

To allow for the love that is here,

To allow for the joy that is here.

To well up from within us,

Regardless of conditions,

Regardless of circumstances.

So thank you for walking the path of freedom with me.

I truly,

Truly,

Truly appreciate it.

And so until the next time,

Much,

Much love to every single one of us.

And really,

There's only one of us.

Namaste.

Reviews

Beautiful! All the best in your journey, dear soul.

I have recently undergone a big change in my health and physical status and I am finally getting to the point of acceptance and trying to change my mindset to improve my life mentally and emotionally.
I came across this talk at exactly the right time and it really compliments my thoughts and actions.
Such a boost to me when I really needed it.
Thank you Daniel 🙏

Such a beautiful insight 🥰 thank you Daniel 🙏✨🤍

Great talk and a very powerful question. Thank you for sharing these insights!