August 30, 2009: Tripping and falling toward your goal (Coaching teleclass)
Tripping and falling toward a goal? What ungraceful stuff am I talking about? Don't we all want to move ahead (with trumpets playing a steady march) and arrive at our destination in a well-ordered, well-planned manner? Like a perfect wedding of two idealized people who will never have to wash dishes, will never argue, and will never die.
Let's be honest about this. Have you ever seen anyone accomplishing anything with no challenges on the way? Only if we are talking about a leisurely drive on a deserted road on a deserted island... Reaching for any substantial goal always involves challenge because tripping and falling makes us aware of our strengths and weaknesses. And most importantly, any challenge helps us focus on and better understand what we really want.
Why do we have to go through this? Because life is a process of becoming and this becoming never stops. We are always in a flux, in a state of change. Each challenge leads to expansion, redefinition, refocusing -- a change in perspective. Tripping and falling is part of the process -- a method used by the Source to continually redefine and expand Itself, for we are the extension of the Universe.
So the question is, Are we open to such expansion, redefinition, refocusing? Are we open to real growth? Are we secure enough to jump off a safe perch and jump off a cliff, not knowing if we shall fall or fly? Do we have a tiny bit of self-confidence required to move forward? Is our heart open to be challenged, wrung out, torn open, expand, grow?
And a deeper question would be, Do we really have a choice? The river of Live moves forward--across valleys, mountains, the bends in the terrain, across the rapids.
The more we are open to tripping and falling but nonetheless moving forward the better we shall know what we truly want. And the more we know what we want the more we engage the Universe to assist us. The universe responds better and better as our focus becomes better and better. That is why concentration is key--but not a contrived, intellectually-produced concentration but focus born by living, tripping, falling, and thus learning through experience. That is why people who are willing to trip and fall learn what they want--and always get what they want.
(A corollary: If you are not getting, carefully check if you are truly at a point where you really know what you want. If not, put yourself in an environment that has enough trouble, enough contrast to teach you.)
It does not matter how gracefully we get to a goal. Our journeys are never what we expect them to be. And if they were, the journeys would be so boring... So, let us stay in the process because we are always in the process, for the present moment is all there is!
Copyright (c) Dr. Anatole Ruslanov
