June 14, 2009
The Power of Choice in the Middle of the Struggle
Change
Greetings
I’ve been sitting here at my computer and yes it’s late here in Santa Fe. I’ve been thinking about what I will write, that will be meaningful for people at this intense time in our history.
I have received so many calls and e-mails about the chaos that is surrounding many of our lives. It is as if life has speeded up and accelerated at an alarming rate.
I know that in my own personal life there have been so many people very close to me that unpredictable catastrophes have occurred to where their entire lives have changed over night.
So within this newsletter I desire to offer some tools for dealing with Life Changes.
Not long ago, I was conducting a private tele-class for my Master Mind students and I invited my friend Sean to be the guest for the tele-class and interviewed him for the benefit he offers people in dealing with hardship. I believe he is the only person I have ever had as a guest presenter for my tele-class.
Sean and I met a few months back when he had called my office and asked if I would work with him conducting a two day one on one breakthrough session for him.
During my work with Sean I realized what an extraordinary young man he was. I walked away from the experience with him being inspired, moved and deepened by my association.
Sean had experienced an awakening; a pivotal turning point in his physical, emotional and spiritual life from an event that would wreck havoc on his body but awaken his spirit.
Sean was electrocuted by a freak accident which caused profound spinal damage causing his mobility and confinement to a wheel chair. From the electrocution his body burst into flames which caused severe burns over 60% of his body.
During the tele-class I asked him many questions about his beliefs and values, but the one question I asked that night was to give the master mind students some wisdom of about dealing with difficult times and how to transform them into the secret gift that is contained with them.
Sean said and I will paraphrase: that through his physical anguish of the burns and being immobile for long periods of time he knew he simply had to be fully present in the experience of the pain and chose to create happiness.
Through all he has been through he stated that NOW like never before he can honestly say he is awake, aware and truly happy. It is a choice. We are not our bodies or our things, or our professions or our money. At the time of each one of our transitions it will be the wisdom we have nurtured and matured within ourselves, the lives we have touched, the humanity we have expressed to those around us and the love we have expressed. We must choose to be happy so we can inspire others with an empowered attitude of possibilities. When a door closes, know that several more are opening.
When Sean laughs it’s as if every cell of his body is laughing from the souls of his feet to the top of his head. Can the circumstances in our lives be transformed to a choice of happiness? I think they can. Sean is extraordinary but so is everyone one of us.
Here are some questions I invite each one of you to ponder and to take out a pen and paper and journal your answers.
1. What really matters to you?
2. What are the emerging possibilities that your life is asking of you now?
3. What do you truly love?
4. Imagine going out in to your future beyond the current difficulties to a place when the current situation has been resolved and look back to the current situation and write down what you know to be the truth.
5. What are some foundational steps in action you are willing to take so you begin shifting your attitude toward possibilities and flexibility in your behavior and perception?
6. Who are your core partners in creating your future with you?
7. What are willing to do in the next two days to begin creating a new direction for you?
I will leave you with a quote from the Hopi Elders:
“There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel like they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off toward the middle of
the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
See who is there with you and celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all
ourselves!
For the moment we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lonely wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for.
Love & Light
Gary De Rodriguez