As a Spiritual Being: Living It, Not Just Talking About It
I have always been action oriented. Put me in a room of idea people and I can sit still for about one hour. Then it's either "!!**!! or get off the pot!" (as they say)
I have been accused of steam rolling meetings and moving through agendas in record time. For me the proof of who I am is in what I do - not what I talk about doing.
Years ago when I was changing my life up, down, right, left and sideways the voice inside my head kept repeating, OK, What's next? If I needed to get rid of a belief...it was gone. If 'my style' of communicating needed improving I was on it. And any behavior that no longer was serving my new direction in life was history. This approach also worked in my outer life. I created new jobs, skills, relationships, organizations, homes and hobbies.
All of that worked until I decided to begin living as a spiritual being and cocreate my personal heaven. It took me awhile to learn being...and allowing the doing to come from the being.
Let me cut to the important points:
I am already a spiritual being and, therefore, already living a spiritual life. So the doing part was about awareness, acceptance, intention, observation, understanding and greater levels of opening. Hmmmmm. And I found out that the more I talked about it - the more I lied. Because living as a spiritual being is always in the now - and talking about living as a spiritual being takes me immediately out of the now.
If I may lie for a few more paragraphs.
So when that familiar voice piped up and said OK,What's next? I heard from somewhere inside,
Nothing.
When I felt that old familiar anxious urge to get something done I asked, What do I do?
I heard, Breathe.
And when I just knew that I needed to make something happen so the world would be a better place I found myself supported to, No. Let go.
I also discovered that all those really wonderful spiritual ideas and ideals that I had read in books didn't mean anything until I decided to check it out for myself and have my own experience. That's when the authentic, gut-level knowing of spiritual being began to reveal its secrets. This beingness was a palpable, living, doing/being experience of breathing in, breathing out waking, sleeping, eating, eliminating, blinking, sneezing, stretching, smiling, frowning, loving, laughing human experience.
How ordinary, I thought.
Yes, and how divine.
Love it all,
Rebecca
I have been accused of steam rolling meetings and moving through agendas in record time. For me the proof of who I am is in what I do - not what I talk about doing.
Years ago when I was changing my life up, down, right, left and sideways the voice inside my head kept repeating, OK, What's next? If I needed to get rid of a belief...it was gone. If 'my style' of communicating needed improving I was on it. And any behavior that no longer was serving my new direction in life was history. This approach also worked in my outer life. I created new jobs, skills, relationships, organizations, homes and hobbies.
All of that worked until I decided to begin living as a spiritual being and cocreate my personal heaven. It took me awhile to learn being...and allowing the doing to come from the being.
Let me cut to the important points:
I am already a spiritual being and, therefore, already living a spiritual life. So the doing part was about awareness, acceptance, intention, observation, understanding and greater levels of opening. Hmmmmm. And I found out that the more I talked about it - the more I lied. Because living as a spiritual being is always in the now - and talking about living as a spiritual being takes me immediately out of the now.
If I may lie for a few more paragraphs.
So when that familiar voice piped up and said OK,What's next? I heard from somewhere inside,
Nothing.
When I felt that old familiar anxious urge to get something done I asked, What do I do?
I heard, Breathe.
And when I just knew that I needed to make something happen so the world would be a better place I found myself supported to, No. Let go.
I also discovered that all those really wonderful spiritual ideas and ideals that I had read in books didn't mean anything until I decided to check it out for myself and have my own experience. That's when the authentic, gut-level knowing of spiritual being began to reveal its secrets. This beingness was a palpable, living, doing/being experience of breathing in, breathing out waking, sleeping, eating, eliminating, blinking, sneezing, stretching, smiling, frowning, loving, laughing human experience.
How ordinary, I thought.
Yes, and how divine.
Love it all,
Rebecca
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