Get your self out of the Way

 The power of decision is your one remaining freedom as a prisoner of this world. You can decide to see it right. (ACIM)

 

I am quite good in reading people’s energies. I often can spot the difference between a kind-hearted attitude and defensiveness. In the latter case, some other people may spot anger, hostility, but if you can see where the other is coming from, perhaps because you have been in a similar position before, it’s much easier to disarm him and create an environment of trust and appreciation.

 

Decisions have to be made about the outside world, but these decisions also occur within, often they happen without our conscious knowing. Just like we can learn on the outside to create a more benign world—or rather, allow this benign world to materialize as the Creator intended—the same decision process has to occur within. Every “thought-feeling” energy has to be felt, embraced and let go of. 

 

Creation happens when we get our self out of the Way. Every “thought-feeling” energy has a real happening attached. That’s what is so hard to understand. We believe that only words and actions have consequences, but we make the world we believe we have in front of us, and this manifestation process starts within. Observe every “thought-feeling” occurrence as it rises into our consciousness and examine its intention. 

 

The psychologist Viktor Frankel summed up this freedom at our disposal when he said, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” In a world where within is without we have that choice moment by moment. We can feel, see and understand Creation. With an open heart, open eyes and open mind we can get the self out of the Way.