Observe the wish for making right

 My wife and I were on our way to Heathrow airport. We had left plenty of time as due to the transport strike we knew that traffic would be slow. Still, getting out of the city was agonizingly slow. I felt irritation rising in my wife, and I started to get worried if we would make our flight in these traffic conditions. Suddenly I remembered a game I used to play in Paris in the early days of Awakening. I was fascinated with the Law of Attraction then and literally “vibed” my way through traffic when the schedule got tight. While I no longer practice the Law of Attraction as I have come to realize that it is not worth my while to consciously ask for anything, I still realized that I was tense and wasn’t helping the situation, so I managed to become aware of my inner tightness and dissolved it. The result was amazing. My wife fell asleep in the car. The Ueber driver cut more assertively through traffic and the lights started to favor us more often than before. We made it in time to the airport with plenty of time to spare.

There is an important spiritual message in that occurrence. The conscious act in the Awakening journey is the wish to stop the self inflicted dysfunction in the world. Observing is something we can do. We can inquire into the entity that wants to advance on the spiritual path. As we become more mindful of our self-induced interferences the Light is perceived more brightly in the outside world. By spotting our conditioning in action we start dissolving our interferences on the inside. Life is easier as we get the self out of the Way, and it’s more fun too.