7 Practices For Realizing Your Highest Possibilities # 2

Practice 2 – Learn to Let Go and Welcome Every Life Lesson.

It is what we are willing to learn in the unfolding moment, and not what we think we already know, that awakens us, at last, to our highest spiritual possibilities. This is why the wise ones have always taught that knowledge is the seed of wisdom, but its flowering is in conscious action.

Transcript

Welcome back and welcome to the second of our seven special exercises that's entitled Learn to Let Go and Welcome Every Life Lesson.

And speaking of life lessons,

Here's the key lesson that surrounds the material we're going to look at together.

It is what we are willing to learn in the unfolding moment and not what we think we already know that awakens us at last to our highest spiritual possibilities.

This is why the wise ones have always taught that knowledge is the seed of wisdom but its flowering is in conscious action.

We must take this exercise and all of the exercises that follow and understand that they are in fact a way in which we can reveal to ourselves what now stands concealed,

Which is really the inner workings of our own consciousness,

The understanding that runs through it.

And through the revelations that we gain in the practice of these exercises,

Begin to reclaim our essential,

Really divine right to be the master of our own ship,

Much as I described in the first story,

Where we understand that everything that comes our way,

Again whether the winds blow hot or cold,

Brings with them certain conditions that can only exist in the way they do in that moment and that moment has a specific lesson in it that is designed just for us.

That's why we must begin to understand that if we're going to welcome the life lessons that liberate us,

That means that we cannot resist the moments that bring those lessons,

Revelations we don't want.

This is what I call a revelation killer.

It is an unconscious action that destroys all the new possibilities inherent with each and every new discovery we make about ourselves.

And this killer of revelation,

Simply put,

Is resistance.

Any form of resistance to what we're given to see in the moment literally steals the lesson that's being offered to us right there and then.

And even more importantly,

We cannot learn the lesson in the moment and refuse to see what it has come to teach us,

To show us about ourselves,

If we reject that moment that has come to do it.

If you will,

Just think about something that I'm often trying to convey as a very important concept.

How can I learn anything about any given moment,

Let alone about myself,

If in the moment when it becomes possible to do so,

Something in me rises up in the form of a negative reaction and summarily rejects the moment and everything in it other than this strong feeling of,

I don't want that,

This isn't right,

Why did that happen?

That moment of resistance which cannot be separated from our own negative reaction to whatever it is that's unfolded,

Belongs to a level of consciousness that has no interest whatsoever in exploring,

Let alone realizing its truest spiritual possibilities.

If we start,

And we can and will,

To realize that there is no advantage whatsoever,

I mean who would want to spend their time not wanting something that can't be changed by not wanting it?

It doesn't occur to us.

I'm sitting at home,

I've got something to do,

I've got somewhere to go,

I've got some responsibility and I'm flooded the moment that thought comes in with what I don't want.

I don't want this.

What does not wanting do?

But in the moment we don't want something it makes perfect sense to us because that resistance produces what seems to be a separation between what we don't want and ourselves.

But what we must see,

And really the lesson in these moments,

Is that what we're resisting isn't the moment.

What we're resisting is what our own mind is telling us the moment means and what we're going to have to go through in order to accomplish it.

So to realize the futility of not wanting something is the beginning of seeing through the futility of that consciousness that can only respond in that way.

But think of the implications,

Just as simple as revisiting the pain of the past,

Whether that moment past is two seconds or 20 years ago.

What am I doing when I resist the revelation of the moment when my own consciousness wants to drag me back,

Not into the event itself,

But its memory of that event?

So that really what I'm resisting in that moment,

But unaware of that fact,

Is the content of my own consciousness.

I am actually looking at a memory that passes itself off as being the actual event and then wishing that that event didn't happen or wanting to change it when what I'm really involved in in that moment is a struggle within my own consciousness and the pain of that moment is the pain of that struggle.

Again,

Think about it with me.

If you went and threw a stone in a pond,

Can you do one thing to change what happens once that stone has left your hand?

Try to picture it.

I throw a stone into the pond.

The minute that stone has left my hand,

Can I do one thing to change what's going to occur next,

Let alone all that follows the impact and the subsequent ripples that are a reflection of that action?

There's nothing that you can do.

We simply,

Constantly get caught up in a level of consciousness that is forever trying to change the outcome of a revelation.

I see something about myself,

But the self that has been revealed isn't interested in knowing that truth and so it tries to change the outcome by imagining a time when it will become something else or it can find someone to blame for the pain of that moment.

The truth is that when we try to change the outcome of any revelation,

What we're really doing is participating in an unconscious continuation of that same consciousness busy trying to get rid of what it created.

So then wanting to change any unwanted moment literally guarantees a continuation of that moment because it's part of a consciousness that doesn't want to see itself.

What is it about these lessons,

These moments that as you and I well know keep coming back and coming back and coming back?

You know the old saying,

I was blind but now I see.

Why couldn't I see the first 542 times?

Because there was something in me that did not want to welcome the lesson in that revelation.

But by the grace of the divine,

And it is by that grace,

The lesson comes back and it comes back and it comes back.

We can run from it,

But we cannot hide.

So it doesn't matter,

And all of us know this is true,

Where we go.

You know that old idea,

Wherever I go there I am.

It simply means that the lesson intended to be received through the revelation but rejected by an unconscious resistance to it guarantees that that lesson is coming back.

Yes,

With different people and perhaps different circumstances or not,

But the fact remains the pain repeats itself because we have refused the lesson in the revelation given to us.

This is really something important to think about.

Has there ever been any lesson in our life?

No moment where a life-changing lesson came along that didn't bring with it a certain kind of reaction that if we could in those moments escape.

So that I think I'm trying to escape the relationship I have with somebody that's painful,

But really what I don't see yet and what the revelation is offering as a realization is what I'm trying to do is escape my own negative reaction and it can't be done.

And that's the important thing to see.

What I'm trying to get at here is that there are in every moment of our life,

Depending upon our willingness to be as receptive as we can,

A series of possibilities that present themselves to us,

Usually in the moments that we want least of all.

This is why learning to welcome the life lesson,

Working in the moment to receive that revelation,

Which is really surrendering to it,

That in surrendering to the revelation we're given a chance to step back and to realize something about the level of our own consciousness that is forever resisting every one of these rescuing revelations because that's really what revelations are.

They are a mirror of the consciousness that's in that moment that is being offered a way to see itself and transcend itself if it will surrender to the revelation.

This is such a vital practice it can't be described in words,

Though I am trying,

But the main task here is to understand the fact that there is a lesson at all and they keep coming as they do proves that as we are,

We have yet to fulfill our own highest possibility in that area.

How do we know?

Because when we have seen and fulfilled our possibility in any one particular area,

The need and the repetition of the lessons change.

We become someone who enters into a new relationship with life and that includes new relationships and new revelations.

And I promise you one thing,

There is no end to this journey of revelation because there is no end to the consciousness that can be revealed by that light and that light lives within you.

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