Thank Goodness For Opportunities

No conversational preliminaries this time… just talk (so to speak).

Conversation 8:

Opportunity. They say it’s everywhere. Then why sometimes do we feel we don’t get enough opportunity? We look around and we see others (we presume with lots of opportunity) succeeding and still more (seemingly with little opportunity) not succeeding. Who do we empathize with? Do we celebrate with those that succeed or do we stand with the unsuccessful and scorn those who succeed, belittling their efforts? Where do we feel most comfortable? What slit are you looking through?

Pardon me… my thoughts are flying faster than my conversational fingers. Remember Pavlov’s Cat? No wait, that was Pavlov’s Dog… oh yea, Schrödinger’s Cat. You know the one where the cat is alive and dead simultaneously until your perception either kills the cat or doesn’t kill the cat (gross over simplification of a very important physics experiment). Where the energy in the box is both a particle and a wave until your perception of the energy makes it into a particle or a wave. Perception does not equal passive observation. Perception equals conscious choice, how you Think about the particle at a particular moment is what happens to the particle.

It’s our choice how we perceive, do we look through the “good” (cat alive – if you’re a cat lover) slit or the “bad” (cat dead) slit. And I mean good and bad as beneficial or non-beneficial. If we can choose to look through the bad we can look just as often or even more often through the good. Notice I am saying “through”, as in what vibrational level do you want to work “through”.

I know, I know, easier said than done. Why does it seem easier to look through the bad… why is that? Well, it is habit… it’s a comfortable place to be, you Know it. Anything known is always perceived as easier than the unknown. Perceived as easier. Think about it… how many times have you encouraged someone you know (like a friend or your child) that if they just try “it” they will find it not to be so hard and once “it” is accomplished life will be easier for them afterwards (asking someone on a date, approaching a client, learning to walk or write, riding a bike without training wheels). Have you ever done something and then said to yourself, “Well, that wasn’t so hard.” That is the perceived I am talking about.

And also, it’s scary and unpleasant to realize that where our perception lies so does creation of our reality. That means that since you created your circumstances by your thoughts and perceptions, it holds no meaning to blame your circumstances for your problems… that leaves no one to blame but… sigh, that’s right… ourselves. The thing is though, once you get over the fact that you have created the reality you are in, no matter how much you dislike it, you then realize that…

You Created The Reality You Are In! Holy Hey Hoo!

If you created it one way, you can create it a different way. Suddenly you realize you can change your reality. And that gives you all the power in and of the Cosmos.

The tools conversed about in this blog to make our Self feel better and perceive (I was very tempted to italicize that word again, but I noticed that I have already done that and used “quotes” a number of times… people who pepper their conversation with air “quotes” annoy me – 10 on the Emotional Guidance Scale)… where was I, oh yea… the tools we use to make our Self feel better and perceive the world in a more positive way are of little use unless we realize that we are the drivers.

You are the one pointing the car (your energy and the Source’s energy) in the direction you want to go. You don’t let go of the wheel and allow the car to carry you wherever it may. You turn the key, grab the wheel and drive to a destination of your choice.

You can drive your car over a bump… and complain about the bump, then while you are complaining, scrabbling for your water bottle on the floor of the car and not watching the road you drive into a ditch, and complain about the ditch and how everything seems to go wrong, and after the tow truck gets you out of the ditch and you are cursing the tow truck driver and why does he have to charge so much anyway, miss the sign on the road about the bridge being out and drive over the edge into a ravine wondering all the while why everything bad always happens to you and how you never get where you want to go.

Or

You can drive that same car over that same bump and think, even though you hit your head on the roof of your car, how great it was that you hadn’t gotten the car aligned yet, and since you’re not complaining, you don’t drive into the ditch, and while passing the poor sot who did drive into the ditch, you send good thoughts the sot’s way making sure you drive more carefully than the sot, and since your eyes were still on the road you notice the sign warning about the bridge being out and take the detour which leads you to a little town where you stop for lunch and meet some people you would never have met, end up having a wonderful time and changing your future for the better.

In other words, we don’t just drive the road waiting for opportunity to come (because it always comes), we drive the road with intent, seeing opportunity in the right light (frame of mind) and taking the opportunity at the right time.

I find the following quotes to be wonderful reminders concerning opportunity…

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. And another quote by the same individual…But, In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein)

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Keller)

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. (Carl Bard)

Life is full of obstacle illusions. (Grant Frazier)

So the question is… do you want to be right that you are where you are because of outside circumstances that supposedly steal your opportunity all the while hating where you are and going nowhere or do you want to be wrong, be responsible for your circumstances seeing opportunity more easily and end up with the power of the universe at your beck and call, creating the reality you want.

Right, powerless, and unhappy… or… wrong, powerful and happy?

For me, there is only one choice. Admitting and accepting that I am wrong is the only way to gain the world I want. Admitting I am responsible gives me the power to create the opportunities I want and to be aware of them as they come.

I love you all,

Donna

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