Where are you going today and what do you want to do?
Each of us is a unique and purposeful expression of divine energy. We arrive with full potential and often with excitement about each day. What is more exciting is that our journey renews each day! We are given an opportunity to start a completely new experience or we can relive the previous experiences we’ve had in the past again and again and again. At least until our life span runs out.
I've heard some express that our Earthly experience is similar to a school, where you learn “life's lessons.” As I grow older, the "school" metaphor has faded and in its place has emerged the "theme park" model where you enter the gate and try to decide which of the rides you will choose to experience. You have to calculate how much time you have to stand in line to get on the rides because the theme park closes at a certain time. How many rides can you go on given the limited amount of time in the park? Your choices become framed by the amount of time you have.
Just like the theme park, there are lines (processes) for getting what you want for a specific experience. A theme park is an illusion that provides different experiences. Some people like to be thrilled, others like the feeling of floating or flying. Some people just want to go round and round. Theme parks offer bungee jumping, roller coaster rides, scary houses, children’s rides, carousel rides and so much more just for the experience of it. Why do we want the experience? Because it is fun! Sometimes we get on a ride that frightens us out of our wits! We go screaming and yelling “Stop the ride! Stop it now! Get me off of this thing!” We know that we made the choice to get on that ride, but it isn’t the experience we thought it might be, we just want off right NOW! We yell at the controller who may or may not be paying attention (because the rides are timed - thank God for that!) When we get off the particular ride someone might say I am never getting on that ride again! Someone else may say I’m going on that ride again! That was fun! They even laugh at themselves if they were afraid and thrilled all at the same time! They get right back in that line right away!
Others prefer and choose a gentle ride where they can observe the surroundings in view, for example a carousel. The ponies go up and down and the wind sweeps your face, little ones are smiling and the ride is safe! On this ride someone may hope it never stops or at least goes longer than the three minutes.
As you can see by those examples. They were just rides in the theme park built for fun! One person learned was that it was not the experience they wanted to have after all. The other person felt so good that they had to experience it again! There was some learning going on. The point of “learning” is merely to gain experience.
If you want proof simply look at the eyes of any child when he or she awakens in the morning. Their eyes open and they are instantly ready to get up and go! What are we going to do? Why? What are we going to eat? I want to brush my teeth! Where are we going? Their energy is amazing and reminds me of the same kind of excitement you get when you go to a theme park. The adults in their lives have to find ways of keeping them busy or distracted. After breakfast the adults might hand them toys to occupy them or turn on a game or television. They are so excited that they have to be distracted.
In our daily lives when we move into balance, we feel our inner excitement again. This inner excitement is our own unique and powerful creative force that seeks to express itself. When we allow it, this force brings things into the world that are as unique as we all are.
In keeping with the theme park example, someone had to come up with the idea for it! Working within their own imagination they imagine the idea of collecting all the different types of rides in one place with a central environment. Going deeper; each of the rides in the theme park were first ideas in the imagination of the individuals who decided that such a ride would be fun! Of course creating the enormous rides that must be mechanically engineered to be safe and secure is an intricate and complex process, There are probably hundreds of such parks in the world they are so large that maps are required for travelling in the theme park world. Theme parks are real but are illusionary environments and the only difference between those parks the environment we live in is our understanding.
Our environment has trillions of experiences to offer in the same way a theme park does. It has many rides, foods, rest and play areas, people and more, but it is important to remember that our "Earth World" is even more complex than the ones that human beings create. The sheer diversity of the environment and the underlying forces that make the physical seem so inflexible is a mystery. So it is best to start with a map and to know what you want to experience.
When we arrive each day we can decide which "ride" we want to go on, but remember our environment has processes too, you have to "get in line" or "align" with the ride you want. Where are you going today and what do you want to do?
Coming soon: Get your map so you know where you're going!
Be well and be happy!
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