November 12, 2006

Good Sunday to you all - this is actually becoming my favorite day of the week, Mystic Sunday. This is the third installment to this on-going series; if you haven’t seen the first two, you can find them over there to the right… click the heading that says Mystic Bits and you’ll find other entries for previous Mystic Sundays. So without further delay, let’s begin!

So, after last Sunday, I got a number of notes from you folks, all describing how you also have had a number of intuitive experiences. I love that! Keep sending great emails like that! One of them in particular was very interesting, a story about the death of a father… as I was reading this story I was seeing the situation in my mind’s eye; many of the details were clear as a bell. I described the father to the woman who wrote to me and again was surprised to find I was accurately describing him. But the strangest thing was, somewhere during our conversation, I could have sworn I heard two names in my head. The thought was so subtle I almost didn’t notice it. Had it not been for the unusal names, I likely would not have noticed it. The names probably are somewhat usual, but not to me. I won’t mention them specifically, but they were related… like Jill is to Jillian… The short name is a name in and of itself, but the long name is a unique name that’s similar. I heard the short version first and the long version second, one right after the other.

I had to laugh at myself. I said, “Did I just hear that?”

So I wrote back to my friend and I said, “Okay I think I just heard a name. Either that or I might be losing my cookies! Does the name Jill or Jillian mean anything to you?”

Well imagine my shock when she replied that woman’s name belonged to his second wife. Not only that, her full name was Jillian, but she went by Jill.

This is just a follow-up to last week’s topic so I’m not going to ramble on about that, but it illustrates that even in conversation with those miles away, it is possible to tune-in to the realities others experience or have experienced. There have been a number of experiments that have explained scientitfically how this happens. There was a man named Vladmir Poponin who demonstrated that the mere presence of DNA in any given situation will cause the photons near it, to order themselves around it. What does that mean egad? Well it means that you cannot NOT influence the very enviornments in which you pass. Not only that, Poponin also found that once the DNA was removed from the environment, the photons did not return to their natural chaotic state. They remained in place as if the DNA was still present. Do you realize the significance of this research? It would seem that you leave your energetic footprints wherever you go, and those who have learned to listen to their intuition, can read those footprints long after you’ve gone.

Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, well-known physicist and one of the presenters for both movies, What The Bleep and The Secret states, “The next fronteir is not going to be space… it’s going to be the mind.” Well, that’s why I’m here rambling about all this stuff… the mind. Now back on track.

This fall I collected yet another piece of wisdom. I wrote in the first Mystic Sunday entry, at least I think I did, that a few years back I leared the real definition of “perfect”. That was a significant piece of wisdom for a perfectionist, but this autumn, I learned yet another key piece of the puzzle that has been helping me to juggle what’s becoming a serious business. What’s this wisdom you ask? Well, I’ll call it, “Keep It Moving Forward.”

Some of you know about the saga of Suzanne’s leaf pile. I have 40 mature trees in my yard. These trees dumped 75 bags of leaves and mind you, that’s 75 bags AFTER the dogs had mulched them nearly to bits. I’m sure we would have had 150 otherwise. So I’m out there just about every day with my super duper powered leaf blower. The first day I started at some point in the yard and just walked straight forward about 100 feet, blowing a perfect path before me, five feet wide. I turned and looked back at it, wanting to make that silly sound like the Home Improvement guy (sitcom humor). I thought to myself, “Hey, now I see why men love power tools!”

So I did the math. At that rate, I’d be able to clear my entire yard in about 15 minutes. Well four hours later, the only part that was complete was the right side of the front yard!! :-O That’s me screaming at my power tools LOL. Why so long you ask? Well it all has to do with what happened during the second pass at the leaves - and I’m sure you already can see what transpired… use your intuition. I started back on those leaves and blew half of the second line right back into the first one and there was not going to be any avoiding that. Such is the way of the leaf blower.

This activity went on for a few days. I had resigned myself to the fact that I likely would not find any secret to the leaf blower and that, perhaps, some things in life were just meant to be tedious and frustrating! I was of course, resisting the rake, who was over there near the side of the house jumping and yelling, “Pick me! Pick me!” like a kid wanting to play kickball.

But something happened on that fourth day… I don’t recall now if it was the tedium or the coping mechanism I chose, but my mind seemed to stumble upon the idea that the point was not to blow a perfect row each time you crossed the yard, it was to simply keep the leaves moving forward. “Well!” I thought to myself, “…isn’t that an interesting idea… let me contemplate this for a minute…” I continued with the leaves, but now I worked with them in a different way. I stopped trying to blow nice rows. I stopped caring whether the second row covered half the first one. I stopped caring about any kind of methodical progression at all. I simply kept the leaves moving forward.

Now I see you shaking your head thinking… “I read all this and all you have to say is keep the leaves moving forward? Well DUH! You must be new to leaf blowers.” :D Okay, okay, you’re right about that, on both counts. But here’s the real gem in this. As I completed the yard that day, I did so without the nagging thought of how I was going to figure it out tomorrow. I no longer felt I was plagued by some mysterious efficiency that eluded me. The most efficient method for this task was simply to keep everything moving forward. This very thought freed me to not only enjoy the task more, but to leave it behind once I was done for the day. Tomorrow, we’ll move more of it forward again and I’ll just be that much farther along.

For the next few days, as I continued to manage leaves, I contemplated this new wisdom. I looked back on the last 20 years of my life and wondered how much time and energy I had wasted struggling and fighting to complete all the tasks that laid before me. No matter what I was doing, every time the figurative leaves blew back into figurative perfect first row, I’d shurg and grow to hate all this stuff I had to do. I realized then, that it was my perception of the way things had to be, that ultimately created this friction - I wanted things to get done right the first time, efficiently, never repeating anything twice - SNAP SNAP SNAP - complete. But in reality, this just doesn’t happen. In reality, some of the leaves will always blow back into the row you just cleared. You can fight that for the rest of your life, or you can hold a new perception that the efficient way for most of life’s tasks, is to simply keep things moving foward.

You all have a thousand things you need to do today. Your family expects things, your boss expects things, you want things. The great question of life… how do you juggle all this yet maintain your sanity. It’s the difficulty of this very challenge that causes people to withdraw from others whether that be from a spouse, from children, from work, from self. People are most happy when they’re engaged and active and participating and productively contributing to their lives and the lives of others. But it’s this nagging, overbearing dark cloud of “stuff” that fills your never-ending to-do list that often buries your spirit and prevents you from enjoying any of it. So I say to you today, that it may be time to adopt a new perception of life, about life, that your goal is not to achieve “perfection” in anything you do, nor is it to obsess about the completion of some never-ending to-do list. Neither of those have strong roots in our reality. But perhaps it may serve you, to begin to understand, that all that is ever needed, is to simply move things forward.

This does not mean you have to slow down or choose a smaller list of things to accomplish, it simply means change your perceptions about the ways in which those things unfold. By doing so, you’re freeing your creative side to participate in the process, the side of you that’s capable of thinking outside the box and more importantly, capable of enjoying the process. It will free your mind to focus more deeply on the task you’ve chosen for this moment and in doing so, you will find a more rewarding outcome when the task is complete. You will find that others will value your work much more when you’re operating in this mode. We all think that the amout of work we accomplish is what others value, but in reality, it’s not. It’s the amount of creative spirit or personal touch that we offer in the things we create or do that people really admire.

Okay, there’s the wisdom for Mystic Sunday. Let go of all your expectations today - at least for today. Go about your to-do list with the expectation that all you really need to do is move things forward. Tomorrow you can look at your list in a whole new way - move things foward again. I guarantee you that you will suddenly enjoy your lists, suddenly enjoy the process of accomplishing tasks and find that you have a whole new spirit with you. That spirit is creative and it’s looking to be with you more often. It brings a kind of joy and happiness you long for, one you most often deny yourself. It’s yours though, and it costs you nothing. Go get it :)

Digest. Enjoy Mystic Sunday.

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