surround yourself with the answer
What makes the human different? Among many other things, it’s the deep desire for ‘something more’ that tugs at the heart of every man and woman.
Your heart is a complicated machine. It yearns for what it does not know of yet. It anticipates the unseen. It understands and reacts to your imaginary fantasies, whether they’re negative or positive. Do you ever imagine getting into a fight or an argument? Your heart rate rises, you might fidget, or show other signs of distress. It’s because your body, your (metaphysical) heart included, cannot distinguish what we call ‘reality’ from your imagination. I find this interesting tie between body and imagination to be a curious thread into what keys our imagination holds.
It’s age-old knowledge, but to some it may not be; we are the result of what we focus on. Your attention is like water to a flower. Whether that flower is poisonous or not, it will thrive when you give it attention (water).
We are the results of our past imagination. The outcomes of hopes that survived, or disappointments that we trudge through. We are the conclusions and beliefs that we cement ourselves into as we grow older. Yet sometimes, the conclusions we come to aren’t always correct, healthy, or built on enough evidence. How do we change the pieces of ourselves that are unsightly?
I definitely do not have the fix-all to the problems of the world here, but I’ve found something that works for me. When faced with a problem, I engage my imagination (thought), and then my heart (feeling). I sort of, send out a call for a solution. For some people, that’s prayer, meditation, there’s a lot of words for it. Surprisingly, the solution is actually the easy part, once you’ve gotten good at throwing off limitations. Nothing is impossible after all, right?
When I have the solution I need, I imagine myself in the very moment that the solution comes to its breakthrough point. I try to feel every drop of emotion in that imaginary moment. The ecstatic moment of a doctor telling you your loved one is cancer-free. The top-of-the-world feeling of a project taking off successfully without error, or the weight of financial burdens lifted as you become provided for. This is called surrounding yourself with the answer.
Maybe you also have a deep desire in your heart that is not labeled. And by that I mean, you want more out of life and you aren’t sure how to get it. That’s what your imagination is for as well! You can dream of yourself in different careers and how you’d spend your day, how much money you’d have, or how you’d spend your time differently. Maybe some of your dreams won’t be as fun as you originally thought, or is it possible you’ll catch an even more fiery passion for them? Maybe you’ll realize you can change things about your current life that you hadn’t even considered before.
As you sit in your imagination, you become a magnet for that moment to come into reality. Like a slow and steady pull on a fishing line. The longer you stay in that place, and the stronger your spiritual energy, the faster you pull it in. Now, if you don’t believe in prayer then I will not try to convince you, other than encouraging you to take your own journey and seek truth. The prayer I’m speaking of doesn’t take place with eyes closed and hands-clasped, alone and in solitude. These prayers are like a breath in and a breath out, remembering to focus in on my feeling of breakthrough and the feeling of joy attached to it. The message of surrounding yourself with the answer is a lesson I’ve learned from the teachings of Jesus, not only in the New Testament but also in the non-canon Book of Thomas. It also comes across in many other teachings in different ways such as ‘The Law of Attraction’. That’s not a specific book I’m referencing, rather than a general concept.
Your brain is an insanely powerful computer that we barely understand. Although, we have figured out that it works on problems while you’re not actively thinking about them, or even actively conscious for that matter! The moral of the story here: there’s a lot we don’t understand about the give and take of the karmic awe-inspiring universe we live in. Yet, we’ve caught on to patterns about these spiritual things that tend to work well for the major majority. This is one of those tools that work, IMHO.
Signing off!