May 20, 2014
I recently committed to teaching a new class. Immediately there was resistance to preparing for the class or devoting any attention to the materials/ideas that would be presented. This is a familiar process that egocentric karmic conditioning has used to keep me in a relationship with it.
Listening to the voices results in procrastination and a lot of stress — not only the day before the class when I scramble to come up with something, but also in the weeks preceding it when low-level anxiety (but no action) keeps the human in a loop of suffering.
I began to notice the same process in other areas of my life, so I committed to a daily R/L conversation with the Mentor prior to one “difficult” task each day.
Life dropped in the suggestion to treat it like an experiment and just see what it was like to talk with the mentor before beginning the task. I used the right hand/left hand technique, which involves bringing an issue or concern to the Mentor while holding the recorder in the right hand and then shifting the recorder to the left hand and waiting for a response.
The process of checking in with the Mentor before beginning a “difficult” task has quickly become part of my day. In this process, I am learning to trust that Life’s guidance is available to me any time I am willing to direct the attention toward Life.
What is really amazing to me about this commitment is that I have not had to “make myself do it.” Each time that I check in with the Mentor for guidance before starting a project that would normally meet with resistance, I am met by someone who knows me so intimately that she/Life knows exactly what I need to hear and that often begins with a reminder that this person is a perfect expression of Life in this very moment.
Not only does the mentor know exactly what I need to hear in terms of reassurances, but she/Life also drops in some amazing clarity about how to proceed with the task at hand.
(I used the two hand recording exercise to confer with the mentor before writing this blog!)
- Choose a task or project that conditioned mind has convinced you is too difficult or cannot be completed to its standards and commit to spending five minutes a day on the task. Precede each five-minute session with a right hand/left hand R/L conversation with the mentor.
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