You Can’t Change What You Don’t Like...
Wise folks everywhere talk about acceptance and how important it is,
and I am all for acceptance in my life. Kris has recently offered a
practical new take on this idea.
Acceptance is one of the keynotes of all new age metaphysical
philosophies. And I am sold on the value of acceptance and how
important it is to my enlightenment and ease of life. Proponents of
acceptance will get no argument from me.
This does not change the fact that there are lots of things in my life - lots
of things - that I don’t like and would like to change. Isn’t that what
conscious creation is all about? Changing the stuff we don’t like?
Don’t we get to use our powers as the divine creators of our lives, to
create what we want?
[That’s what I thought I was signing up for!]
Turns out this is a bit of a 'loss leader' conceptually, because the
first half of creating what we want is not about changing anything at
all. It’s about accepting whatever reality we find ourselves in presently.
This is Kris’ helpful new way of presenting this perspective...
“You can’t change what you don’t like.”
In
terms of conscious creation principles, he means that as long as we
don’t like something, we are concentrating on it, and of course, ‘you get what you concentrate on’.
The idea is to release the energy we have tied up in not liking all of
these things, and redouble our efforts and focus in the direction of
what we do want.
This only requires taking responsibility for having created whatever the perceived ‘bad’ thing is in the first place. [It's as simple as that!]
As we accept our divine birthright of ‘creating our own reality’, we
also accept, as a matter of course, that we have created every molecule
in the reality we are experiencing at this very moment. We don’t just
create future realities, we created all of 'em! All of our past
realities right up to and including, the one we’re in right now.
As soon as we accept this idea, we realize how counter productive it
is to rail against anything in our lives because this is something we
ourselves have created. Sort of like banging your thumb with a hammer.
It happens for sure, but it should definitely be minimized to the best
of our abilities.
So the way to change what you don’t like, is to take full
responsibility for creating it in the first place, and then allow
ourselves to realize how self-discounting it would be, under these
circumstances, to continue disliking it.
After all we created it for our own good reasons and we are the same me
that is in the process of deciding, as we speak, about what to create
in the next now. So we don’t want to be undermining our faith in our
ability to choose what is right now, do we.
The genuine belief that we can choose anything we want to appear in our next
now, must be supported by the heartfelt acknowledgement and congruous
acceptance of the fact that we have created everything in this now.
Creating what we want is not so difficult. All we have to do is
accept the fact that we have created everything in our present reality
with loving, nurturing intent. This awareness and understanding flips
the necessary internal switches and allows us to influence our reality
creation mechanisms with great efficiency to start producing much more
of what we do want.