Paradise-on-Earth wrote: βWed Aug 07, 2024 11:46 am
spiritualcookie wrote: βWed Aug 07, 2024 7:32 am
POE, do you think your example of COPD is also the result of certain vibrational things going on? a manifestation of an active resistance of some kind?
My take on things happening has shifted big times, since I really try to live by Abe's teachings.
In the beginning (or even before knowing Abe), I thought:
"When you do things right, you will get the stuff and circumstances you desire- straight and fast, and that's it."
I still think that is true to some degree (you WILL get what you are a match to) but there is sooo much more to all of this.
There is a quote about a student asking the master, what meditation gives us. The master answers: "Nothing. But it takes away the fear of illness, getting old and dying." That is, at least, what happened to me on my journey... not because I meditated. But because I took EVERYTHING that happened as a gift on my journey to what I truly want.
...Abe lead me to understand that we humans often have no clue what we REALLY want. It begins with the fact that there are myriads of tiny details in our Vortexes that we either have forgotten about or suppressed wanting... but they still match our hearts desires, and together with many many more desires, they work as ingrediences for cakes (as Abe have explained). So, we (maybe) still recall that we have desired eggs and butter and sugar and flour... but we forgot that we have put spices into our Vortex as well, and a certain love for specific form of cake or an icing. Source, though, remembers ALL our desires. The big ones and the seemingly tiny and "insignificant" ones just as well. Source knows HOW we like our "cakes" and when and with whom. And when our vibe is right, we get cakes that blow us away in their beauty and perfection and yumminess- in just the perfect setting and time.
Abe say, we have put it ALL ITV, but the mixing and preparing and the delivery is sources job. Sometimes, there are some ingrediences missing to the "cake" we really want- and so, source brings us into situations where we REALLY desire the amount of (maybe still missing) ingredient. And when we went thorugh this desire-sparking part of life, the "cake" that came from it is SO WORTH IT. ...I hope I don't lose my audience, in using the analogy...
The bottom line is: This is NOT about "doing things right or wrong". It is about source and human (as sources extension who is able to come up with new desires so much better than source itself)- CO-CREATING new things, that have never before been. It is about the joy and satisfaction of realizing new desires, the journey of becoming a match and the "orgasmic" coming-into-alignment... ALL of it is part of it! Step 1, step 2 and step 3!
So, to answer your question: OF COURSE, my COPD is an outcome of my vibration, and my specific desires and resistances. As EVERY circumstance in my life is!
It is an indicator of what I'm doing and where I am in regards to my true desires, and it is a stepping stone to teach- and train me into more of what I want. It is CERTAINLY something that I learned is FOR me.
So, to give some more insights in my personal situation, here is a big resistance that I hold:
-I was (and still am in some significant ways) deeply ingrained in the old paradigm of thinking that "my worth would depend on how useful I am for the society. So- the more and the faster I work, the more worthy I am. And, vice versa, when I am a lazy bum, when I am slow, when I am not helpful, I am not worthy of living."
My desire was (as far as I am already aware of) to explore a life of true freedom, joy and "true unique Paradise"- NO MATTER of hard or fast work, and to master this in Alignment and then, teach it to those who are interested, "by my example" (as Abe put it).
So, I lived -until I was about 45, a life with very split energy- on the one hand working extremely hard until I got a burnout, and not finding spiritual/mental satisfaction until I got depressed. WHILE I knew that life should be easier and more (self-)loving and happy. Other people's needs where always more important to me than mine: And so, I used almost all my time and capability to do what others desired me to do, and help others to fulfill their dreams. Which are beautiful things, but not to this extent. Then I found Abe, and slowly, I could release my fear that felt literally life-threatening, of not working hard enough. A major breakdown forced me to stop sitting on the fence, finally, in one fell-swoop.
= Without this breakdown, and the COPD that the doctors found out about afterwards, I might still not dare to live "slow and lazy and explore FINALLY what *I* care about first and foremost". Thank you for having knocked me out, and given me rest and TIME and all needed excuses, COPD!
I got mocked a lot for "obviously doing things wrong", (certainly a result of having believed in "needing to do things "right" for so long). While I also knew the teachings about love and joy and ease, I tried SO HARD (do you have a guess already how this might turn out?) to apply them "right". Finally I gave up trying to explain to others, and became (unconditionally) happy just being happy. And in that time, Abe "invented" step 5- where you still love yourself while you are in step 1 (what most people would call "doing things wrong").
I had figured it out BEFORE!
Love and Joy rank SO much higher than "doing things right"!
= I learned to UNCONDITIONALLY love and value myself. Feels sooooo much better than not!
...Maybe I took much too much time getting happy.
Maybe I still do things completely "wrong" (otherwise I would be magically healthy, incredibly beautiful and fantastically rich, right?)
Maybe there are others who do it "right" much better and faster than me, but I don't care, as this is no race, and I can only do what I am capable of doing.
But certainly, I have a charmed awesome life, with which I am so VERY happy, since several years now... "I am eternally incomplete" (-Abe) and hope that I will have many more decades to live a life in fantastic miraculous health (and fantastic abundance), but really... if I would drop dead today, I would be so thankful for what was.
= I learned to not hunt through my life anymore, but to be UNCONDITIONALLY, solidly, peacefully "satisfied where I am and eager for more", in every moment and step on my way. This takes off the painful edge of almost everything or maybe, LITERALLY everything?
Do you think once this resistance is cleaned up the COPD will maybe magically disappear?
My doctor says, COPD is uncurable, but I don't believe that. So: I think so, yes! While probably not "magically" (while I wouldn't mind)
but, more, step by step...?
I like what Lemon said:
FeelGood wrote: βWed Aug 07, 2024 8:11 am
My favorite thing I remember hearing is that things usually change in degrees rather than over night.
I have "cleaned up" so many resistances already- -each one has made my life so much better. But I don't dare any prognosis about "when I'm done". Maybe never!
And that is OK!
I am VERY satisfied anyway, so I am A-OK with it lingering and reminding me about what still is to do. And, I must admit: IT IS SUCH FUN to be pushed by my sons along the aisles of the grocery-shops in a race with my daughter, who pushes a stroller! My grandsons just LOVE to sit in my lap when we drive with the electrical wheelchair through the city! And it is so wonderful lazy to not be bored to death by walking (I NEVER liked to walk or to even hike!!)
or to be pushed in a cargo-bike, while all others must pedal, just enjoying the ride, the wind in my hair....
What I also know is, that in the last 10 years
-DH and I quadrupled our income (even I don't earn at all- and I don't have to!) and keep fulfilling more and more of our very dear desires.
-my doctors are in amazement that the COPD doesn't get worse as it "should"- actually, I "ought" at this time to not be able to walk on my own anymore, and be reliant on oxygen all the time- which I indeed don't need at all. I live in the 1. story of our house, climb the stairs on my own, and do most of my housework myself.
So... I want it ALL. But all in good timing- and I leave that to source, while my job is solely, to be happy!