To What Do You Pay Attention?

 
 

I used to love those cartoons where the character had a little devil on one shoulder, and an angel on the other.  In most cases they were miniatures of the main character.  A little Goofy with horns on one shoulder, one with a halo on the other.  Usually the halo one ended up beating the crap out of the horns one.

That was in the cartoons.

In truth, it’s never the case that “Truth” wins out over Falsehood or evil… or vice versa.  Truth and Falsehood are just concepts, and do not actually exist until we manifest them into reality.  We manifest them by making a choice to focus on one or the other.  The potential for good and evil exist in equal measure already.  We’re the ones who turn on the switch.

To make it clear, we are not judging “evil” from some cosmic standpoint.  The word “negative” means, roughly, “opposite”.  What we see as evil is whatever doesn’t affirm our process here in this universe, this Earth School.  Anything counter to our interests (to learn, grow, feel joy)  is “negative”.  If “negative” would leave us alone, we would gladly avoid it entirely.  But such is not the case, right?

So it’s there and in practical fact, we can’t avoid it entirely.  We are co-creators, and other realities encroach upon our own.  Where those circular ripples intersect, there’s the shakeup.

If rough stuff is unavoidable, where’s the hope for a peaceful life?  Aha.  The magic bullet is, not surprisingly, within you already.  You knew I’d say that, didn’t you?  🙂

I try to make it clear to my client-friends that the object of our work is not to have the perfect life; it’s to fearlessly face whatever comes along in the knowledge that you can handle it.  That, my friend, is true freedom.

Then you won’t need anybody sitting on your shoulder.  You’ll know what to focus on – what lies ahead, not what trails behind.