Pathwalking 186
I find that I get way too caught up in the how of things, and this is where I trip myself up.
When it comes to conscious reality creation and manifesting the things you want in life, getting focused on the how of the process can stop progress. I am starting to think that this is part of how I sabotage my own efforts.
I believe that consciousness creates reality. I have made use of this to manifest things in my life on more than one occasion. I know, in the deepest part of my heart and soul, that this is an unquestionable truth. It is not a sometimes thing, it can be done continuously.
Why doesn’t everyone know and act on this? Lots of reasons, but I think the majority of it comes from a lack of empowerment. Despite efforts that appear to the contrary, our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders, our politicians do not in fact act to empower us. Sure they teach things, show us things, expand our knowledge on a wide variety of topics. But they do not empower us.
What does that mean? We get fed an astounding amount of information. We live in a day and age where you can learn news from across the globe as it happens, not hours or days or months as it once was. We almost get overloaded with information. What we don’t get, however, from nearly any resource, is how to make use of any information to enrich ourselves.
Society is obsessed with the selfish and the unaware. We are constantly creating “celebrities” whom we watch bumble through life with nary a thought about anyone but their own fame, and we are led to believe that this is the norm. On the other side of the scale we see “celebrities” who are incredible givers, donating to charities and being utterly selfless. We then focus on these two extremes – uber-selfish and uber-selfless. If I am not the one then I must be the other.
What does this have to do with empowerment? Selfishness shows no concern for others. Selflessness shows no concern for the self. In the middle however is where reality lies, and rather than taking control of our own awareness we judge where people stand based almost entirely on these two polar-opposite extremes.
Empowerment comes with awareness. How many people do you know who are to all intents and purposes completely unaware? Asleep at the wheel? How many people do we all know who simply let life live them and they cast blame about but only empower others and never themselves? How many people believe lies they are fed and then profess to be their own knowledge despite no study or research?
It is this lack of self-awareness that dominates too much of our society that is the reason why not everyone acts on conscious reality creation. We have not been empowered by mainstream society to consciously create reality, we have been told things are out of our control and the like. We are shown that those who seemingly can do conscious reality control are either selfish or selfless, so there is no need to do anything but let life live you.
Pathwalking is about not accepting that societal norm and taking control of the destiny I want.
The paradox of course is that on the one hand this is incredibly simple. On the other it involves complexities of focus that can be alien. For me, the problem I have been tackling recently is my need to understand the how of manifestation.
I know I cannot just blindly expect that if I wish for something hard enough it will just happen. You cannot just use consciousness to create reality in a total vacuum. It is a matter of combining thought, feeling and inspired action to make this happen.
Where do I get tripped up? I know what I want to create. I have given it a lot of thought energy, given it feeling energy, am taking inspired actions to make it go…but I still cannot see HOW this can possibly work. I am too OCD to just let it happen, I want to take the watch apart and understand its workings. What makes this tick? What components go into this? How does it all come together at the end?
When I am building a computer from scratch I need to know the how. I can tear open the case and replace power supplies and drives and motherboards…and I have a fundamental understanding of how it all works together to allow me to surf the web and word process and play games and so on. I don’t necessarily know how each component functions individually, I just know they are a necessary part of the process.
When it comes to conscious reality creation and Pathwalking I often look for too much detail in the how. If the universe is a giant computer that will let me surf the web and play games and such, it is a matter of choosing the icon and launching the app. This is where the focus should go. It is unnecessary to understand all of the components that go into the computer prior to that app being launched.
Worse, when you focus on the how, you do not focus on the desired outcome. When you do not focus on the outcome and get caught up in all the minutiae of the process all you have is process. This is the computer booting but not loading your app, so now you are stuck diagnosing the problem – but the problem here is that you didn’t create what you were after, you created a problem to be solved instead.
If the computer analogy of this doesn’t quite work, it might be simpler to think of it this way. Conscious reality creation is driving the car from point ‘a’, where you are starting to point ‘b’, the desired thing. Rather than just getting on the road and making the drive you stop along the way to examine the car for damage, the road for potholes and other obstacles. You don’t reach point ‘b’ because you get caught up in writing a letter to the state about the pothole that wrecked your tire.
Taking the long way around, my point today is that I need to simplify my pathwalk. I need to see what it is I want to achieve, I need to give it thought and focus, then feeling energy, and then take inspired actions. I don’t need to know the mechanics of HOW to get from where I am now to where I want to be…I just need to know it can be done, and take the actions that inspire me, know that they are aligned with my thoughts and feelings, and make it happen.
Are you aware of the world you want to live in?
This is the one-hundred eighty sixth entry in my series. These weekly posts are specifically about walking along the path of life, and my personal 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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