Pathwalking 134
Do you sometimes wonder if I actually practice what I “preach”?
I will not deny to you that there are days where I get caught up in everything I write about here. I get stuck in my routine, I allow myself unnecessary and sometimes even harmful distractions. I stand upon a path and spin about, unsure about moving forward or going backwards. Sometimes I wonder if this really is doable, or if I am just a liar?
Last week I put this to the test. I determined that I needed to put up or shut up, so to speak, and I had to take care of some situations that were less than ideal. I took Pathwalking to another step, and I used one of the key elements I have thrown out time and again – Consciousness Creates Reality.
Often, in truth, it is SUB-conscious that creates our reality. We believe the things about ourselves and our lives that are actually in our past, and continue to believe them in our present. We get stuck in being out-of-shape, low on energy, short on time, and so on and so forth. We believe that we have to go with the status-quo because that is just the way things are at this moment.
The reality we have created is, as such, often unsatisfactory. So we make a choice to work on building better. Do you know what usually trips me up? My own sub-conscious thoughts and feelings.
I needed a new car. My car was still good, but in need of a lot of work, and the money that work was going to cost felt wasteful to me. It was pointed out to me, too, that over the past two years the car has become more and more unreliable, and there were concerns that it would fail at a less-than-optimum moment, and leave me stranded.
Without going into unnecessary personal details, replacing my car was fraught with a lot of challenges. I could not fathom HOW it could be done. I had spent several weeks looking into new-to-me used cars, and after a couple attempts to move on this could not fathom a means to make it happen. The how eluded me, and I was running out of time.
I made a decision that the answer would come. I stated that on Thursday I would receive a means to repair or replace the car. I believed it. I felt it. I KNEW that I would find the way. I did not know HOW – and more importantly, I did not try to figure out the HOW. How always manages to trip the process up, because when you cannot figure out how, spending your energy on it defeats whatever it is you are working on manifesting. You have to just accept the idea of consciousness creating reality, and thinking, feeling, and acting on it being.
Thursday I was contacted by one of those car dealers I had previously reached out to. He told me someone in their finance department would contact me. An appointment was made Friday – and though I went to it with ZERO idea of HOW any action might occur, I still believed that it would. I thought it, I felt it, I believed in it happening. I left that dealership with a new-to-me car, and incredulity that it did, in fact, all work itself out.
I could not have worked out the how of this. Period. Even after having seen it in action, knowing what went on to bring it about, I still do not fully comprehend just HOW I did this. But I did.
Yes, I will not deny to you that circumstances may have just been right, or I was lucky or a series of coincidences happened here that brought this about. But I am a Pathwalker. I am choosing to create my own reality. I believe that I succeeded in manifesting what I needed. Consciously, for the first time in over a decade, I really, truly was the creator of my own reality.
Over the weekend, I did it again. I needed something. I repeated the process of THINKING about what it was I needed, and I KNEW I could get it. I believed it would happen, and I stated it as so. I did not know how, I had no idea at all HOW, but I knew it could be done. And it was. It was not in a manner I could have figured out if I had focused on the how, yet there it was, my need fulfilled. I was once more taken aback and delighted that I have created my reality.
Fifteen years ago I did this after my accident. I accepted nothing less than the thought of total recovery from my injuries. I FELT that all would be restored, and I acted upon it and said I would have nothing less than a full recovery as quickly as possible. And I did.
Then I fell back into routine, and even with the knowledge that consciousness creates reality, I have not often done so. I started Pathwalking, and there have been fits and starts…but I have seen firsthand that I CAN make the paths of my own choosing. I can consciously create my reality.
I have momentum to work from. I have manifested both the tangible and intangible before, and I can continue to do so. I am practicing the philosophy of Pathwalking with my life, but after the last week’s success, I have a new perspective. I know that I need to create with more focus on the what and less on the how. I do not need to know HOW this will work, I just need to know that it will.
If you are a curious sort like me, it can be maddening to not analyze and study the how. I want to know why and how this works, and half of that answer is not always sufficient. But when I let go of the how, and only focus on the what, I can manifest what I need. If I can do this with greater frequency, then I truly am walking on the path I am choosing. I am putting all of this into practice.
More than two-and-a-half years of writing this every week, I can say that I AM practicing what I am “preaching”. I am walking my own Path. Now I have a far better understanding of where my shortcomings in this concept have been…and I have a far better idea just how to fix them.
Have you consciously been creating YOUR reality?
This is the one-hundred thirty fourth entry in my series. These weekly posts are specifically about walking along the path of life, and my desire to make a difference in this world along the way. Feel free to re-blog and share. Thank you for joining me.
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