Conscious Creation: New Years Resolution
I've made a lot of New Years resolutions in my time, perhaps
more than I'd like to remember! But my favorite resolution was
when I decided to start creating my life consciously rather than
unconsciously.
You might be thinking that you are creating your life
consciously. But, if I asked you to tell me what your intent is
for this year, chances are you wouldn't be able to answer my
question at first. Perhaps you would need to think about it for
a while. But, while I was waiting for your answer, life would be
moving on and the lack of clarity in your mind would be what you
would be creating in your life.
Conflicting beliefs that exist in the mind create conflicting
outcomes in life. If you want to create something exciting in
your life, but you don't believe that you can do it, what are
you putting out there? The universe works on the basis of
action-reaction. If your action is the creation of confusing or
conflicting thought-forms then the reaction of life will be
confusing or conflicting situations within your dream.
Most of us are creating the dream of our life from our
sub-conscious mind. We don't have a conscious purpose because we
are often afraid that life will disappoint us if we do. And we
don't want to feel the pain that could result from the
disappointment. It's simply better not to ask. Instead, rather
than creating consciously, we go through life reacting to
whatever is happening to us in the moment. To me this is not
creating with clarity or purpose, but instead floating through
life dodging whatever comes our way. It is a reactionary way of
living and it has a way of causing us to feel like we are
victims of life rather than the creators of life.
To create consciously using our intent, we must be
single-minded. In other words, our desire must be focused solely
on what it is we would like to create. There is no doubt in our
mind about anything. We "know," in a way that does not involve
thinking, that we can do it. If we close our eyes we can see our
creation and it feels so good. Yet at the same time, we are not
attached to the outcome and we are ready to adjust our dream in
any direction that life is showing us - at any time. We are
flexible rather than rigid. As a result we are both the director
of life and the servant of life - and from this point of view
there are no victims.
I would like to challenge you to create consciously in this new
year. Take some time to sit and dream about the upcoming year.
This is one way of practicing the Toltec technique of Dreaming.
Ask yourself, what would you like to create? Where do you want
to go? What dreams have been lying dormant in your heart? What
have you been waiting for? Don't think that you can do it - know
that you can do it!