How can we manifest new experiences?.
When your mind and heart are truly open abundance will flow to you effortlessly and easily.
Question:
“I have read some of your books, and the message I have gotten from them is that we should surrender to our inner intelligence and accept the situations and events that are happening to us.
I have tried to implement that philosophy in my life – I feel that in the past, I have tried very hard to get what I want, and many times it has backfired.
After reading your books, I decided to try acceptance and trust.
To take the example of relationships, I used to try to make them happen – go to the right parties and places, make an active effort to be near a particular person, and try to arrange situations with them.
Now – I do none of those things – I trust that the person that I am supposed to be with at any particular time will find me and that I don’t need to do anything to make it happen.
However, in some of the previous posts I have been reading, you seem to put an emphasis on free will and making choices to shape our own destiny.
How does being proactive in getting what we want square with acceptance of our inner self?
Am I being too passive with my life – should I be going out and trying to make the situations that I want to happen, actually happen?
While I was sometimes very frustrated, upset, and discontented with the outcomes that were “active” and self-generated, there were at least things that were going on; I was never bored.
Now, I feel like nothing is happening at all – I’m at a complete standstill.”
Response:
I don’t suggest passively surrendering to outside circumstances as a life strategy.
Nor am I advocating trying to force nature to cater to your ego agenda through willpower.
Rather, what I try to encourage is a conscious attunement to that inner creative power and intelligence that guides our life, and all life, through meditation and loving awareness.
This implies that we are not resisting or judging events, but this is very different than passively lying down on the tracks waiting for life to come to us.
You should not abdicate your creator role.
That is why nothing is happening for you and you are at a standstill.
Meditate to develop the connection to your cosmic creative self.
Then use your intention to direct that creativity along the lines of your life purpose.
So you gently put your desired intention out there in the universe and then let go of it.
Then observe the response and then consciously engage with whatever happens to see how you may need to adapt your intention or action in order to bring forth whatever needs to come forth.
This kind of conscious, creative living is a delicate medley of intention, detachment, ease, listening, quiet focus, and fearlessness.
Love,
Deepak
