Living an Inspired Life
Don Miguel Ruiz, author of "The Four Agreements" and my personal
mentor, spoke on more than one occasion about living one's life
in a totally different way than we had been taught to live; what
he called "living the will of God." He asked us to imagine what
living the will of God might look like. At that time, my highly
educated and analytical brain had a field day tearing apart his
lecture. I could not begin to imagine what the heck he was
talking about, it sounded vague and religious. Past experience
taught me that my teacher was normally correct about things and
I was the confused one! So I took the lecture in and filed it
away into the recesses of my mind for exploration at a later
date.
As life would have it, many opportunities soon followed that
gave me the chance to put those new possibilities into action in
my life. What he was asking us to imagine, was living our lives
from the heart, to explore and open up to all of the
opportunities life has to offer. For myself, a woman with a
regimented and analytical mind, this was quite a stretch. My
life had revolved around 5 year plans and long discussions with
my accountant regarding the best approach for whatever I was
involved in. Now some cute little brown man was suggesting I
just wing it and experience my life in the moment every single
day! I can tell you that this was something my mind had a very
difficult time grasping.
Since then I have learned to set my intent for the bigger
picture and let life show me all the possibilities that exist
before me. Opportunities come all the time but I had never
noticed them. My mind (frequently referred to as a "program" for
its computer like qualities) immediately crossed them off the
list of available strategies, not allowing me to see anything
out there beyond what was comfortable, familiar and expected. As
a result I found myself recreating my life in a pattern that was
in perpetual repeat mode. Of course the results of that
methodology have been less than successful!
Recently, a dear friend of mine was sharing how she wanted to
have fun in her life but was not interested in creating an
empire like another good friend had. I immediately said to her,
look at how your mind, by judging an empire to be a "bad" thing,
is eliminating something grand that may be coming your way. If
Spirit wants to create an empire through you, who are you to
refuse?
Of course the answer is that the mind is frightened at the
possibility of greatness and uses the excuse of "so much work"
as a justification for its fear. The truth is that if Spirit/God
sends you an empire, Spirit/God will also send you the people to
man that empire. If your heart and eyes are open to the magic
occurring around you, you will be able to see what I am talking
about. Of course when I say Spirit/God I am talking about you.
You are the manifest acting on behalf of the desire of the
unmanifest to create and have fun. Another way of saying this is
that your higher self is directing you all the time, but rather
than paying attention to your heart, you have all your attention
on a restrictive, frightened, non-imaginative program that has
spent its life crimping down on the expression of your
creativity out of fear! Well, that said, what are we going to do
about it? Get off our butts, move through our fear and create
those empires with love, excitement, total abandon, and a whole
lot of fun. To me this is living an inspired life, "living the
will of God." Inspired by whom? The real you as Spirit/God of
course!