I like to think that my development of awakening who I am, has been pretty successful over the years. I have certainly had a few challenges along the way, looking after my mother from the age of 14, leaving home at 17, moving from one disastrous relationship to another to bring up 4 children alone.
Hmmm, not your Disney story really! And there’s the thing, WHY does it take for human beings to go through so much pain and suffering to finally ‘get it’? Why, does it take such monumental events for us to re connect to who we really are? Being that we are here to have a joyous life experience wouldn’t we connect with those joyous events rather than the challenging ones?
The reason for the contemplation has been because of a series of events that happened to me recently, where I realised the Universe or Source Energy or God, whatever you want to call ‘all’, was slapping me in the face and I wasn’t listening! Don’t get me wrong, I find development a continuous process, I still feel like a novice in the grand scheme of things and when I don’t manifest what I have been putting out, shows me there is still work to do.
In reality, contracts dried up, the income dried up so I couldn’t move forward on anything, the bills started mounting up, the car was repossessed…what a great job I did of that manifesting!
It shook me I can say, as I ‘thought’ I had it all figured out, be happy, appreciate, affirm your intentions, learn to let go of resistance…Nope the Universe wasn’t yielding, so obviously I was doing something wrong.
This happened again recently…but on a much smaller scale, thankfully but again…slap! The Universe lets me see I have to keep learning.
I was going to an event in London, a seminar that offered to be valuable to getting more media exposure and leads for your business. Anyway, this event was quite far away for me, so I checked the travel and found I could get a coach from a nearby town (bear in mind I live in a sleepy Surrey Village!) great! Going to be a straight forward journey.
So 6am I’m up and on my way, get to the coach stop and wait, ‘yes’ I said to myself, ‘I’ve made good time, will get there in plenty of time’. 30 minutes later, starting to find my toes going numb, I realise the coach wasn’t going to show! Not to be deterred, I walked to the nearest station and went to book a ticket…the tube station had been closed for repairs at a weekend! 2 BUSES, 2 TRAINS later I finally arrived at the event!
Even then, it didn’t register all this challenge to get there, nope I did it, I succeeded. I met some friends and thought no more of it.
As I went through the day listening to speaker after speaker, realising that actually they were not so much offering helpful advice but rather being Vampires under cover, with the end goal of selling their own programmes and advising people to get into debt to do it.
I actually became physically ill, my energy drained.. but again, I’m sitting there thinking, ‘I’m never going to make this work, I can’t get all these strategies figured out on my own’ I had brought on my first cold in over 11years!
I left the event, feeling like crap, went to the hotel. I was cold, hungry, fed up…yes me; the most positive person on this planet was fed up!
I asked the Universe what was going on, why was this feeling so bad.
I crawled into bed and went to sleep. By 5am I was awake, feeling bad? If I’m feeling bad, then I’m not in alignment, something about this is not right. Yeah, you guessed it and then came the slap! I packed my bags and battled my way back through the trains and buses and finally arrived home.
It took me a good couple of days to get back into alignment after that but the one thing that came to me, the ‘light bulb’ moment.
Don’t offer prayers to God, Source energy, the Universe of begging and help as all you get is more of lack coming your way. We are all individual parts of the Universe, parts of the whole, we are god, we are Source energy and we are the Universe…we are talking to ourselves!
Instead, if you are going to offer prayer, conversation, whatever you choose to call it… offer GRATITUDE. Gratitude for all that you desire in your thoughts, as if the Universe has already delivered. We have already manifested it in thought, it is done! We are creators, so everything we desire MUST be in the NOW and all we need to do is be grateful and appreciate that we have it all…so simple, yet we so often forget….
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