I have just been reading an interesting email from someone posing the question- "Are you living at cause — or are you living at effect?" (Tal Rachleff)
"Here's what this means: when you are living at cause, you are actively creating the life and circumstances you desire around you. You take 100% responsibility for what shows up in your life and no longer project blame or responsibility onto others for what is happening in your consciousness. (And what is happening in the field of your consciousness — whether you are conscious of it or not — is pretty much everything that you can possibly ever experience — right?)
When you are living at effect, you are waiting for other people or external circumstances to shift to allow you to have what you want. You offload responsibility for being the active agent in creating the life of your dreams to others. You often find yourself resenting the success or boldness of others even as you wish you had done what they have or something similar. Sound familiar?
Simply acknowledging where you're living at cause — and where you are living at effect — can create a huge shift in your life."
I was doing this without realising it BEFORE I had my hands read, living in effect that is.
I felt a victim to my circumstances and unable to change my lot to any significant degree. Definitely limiting beliefs although I had no concept of this or what it was shaping -or not shaping – in my life.
It was an awful lot of waiting I was doing, not shaping.
I had been waiting for years! Now I could kick myself for being so lame but…
I needed the confidence and reassurance, as well as the awareness of such things that an experience like Hand Analysis can provide. As I have said and will keep saying, it is a transformative experience.
Once you have awareness of something it cannot be erased.
Just like a child learning a swear word – you just cant get them to unlearn it.
ts in there, you've had it!
Do you have all the information you need to be living in cause and not in effect?
If you are to be 100% responsible for what you bring into your life, you need to have all the information you can about you and that includes the shadow side- or how I might phrase it as a Hand Analyst- your life lesson information.
For example, if you know your Life Lesson is "The loser", as hard as that sounds, and it is, you need that information.
You don't get to live your Life Purpose without some work.
You need to hear the truth and have the mirror held up in front of you so you can do something about it, your Life Lesson that is.
A known unknown rather than an unknown unknown as Donald Rumsfeld might say! ( I never understood why that caused such a stink because it made perfect sense to me?!)
And believe me, I have that life lesson.
It feels like an icy grip around your heart to hear that phrase, but now that I know it, I can raise my awareness and tackle it, do something about it and avert disaster!
Avoid the bus if you know its going to hit you!!
The more I know about what makes me tick, the more I can be responsible for what I let into my life and the results I create in my life.
It cuts out a lot of guesswork and time wasting to have an owners manual to refer to.
When you have been wasting time like I had been, time wasted WAITING, it feels like time speeds up and there is not so much left to waste. It is the most valuable natural resource that we all have.
There is an urgency for all of us to stop wasting time. Not just in the world wide sense but personally as well.
If more of us were to be living our lives on purpose, we would be happier and that ripple would affect everyone we come in contact with, most especially those nearest and dearest to us. Those that we shape by our actions and behaviour, those that we love the most but some times treat the worst.
We, the big 'we' often talk about the wasting of our resources, the squandering of the earths riches, whilst continually failing to recognise that WE are squandering ourselves. We are wasting our precious time and our unique potential and brilliance by not being awake to ourselves.
We are failing to serve ourselves and those around us whilst we have an abundance of something, our talents and gifts, so valuable to share with others.
I want as many people as possible to live with the full knowledge of the abundance they have to offer the world. I am sure you can relate to this if you consider for a few moments all the people in your life that you recognise have not lived the bigger life, the bigger more brilliant version of themselves that they could have, whether they realised it or not. All the bitter and cantankerous elderly people that you know that are that way because of the way life panned out for them not realising that there was a different way or not knowing how to access it due to the social mores of the age.
It is heartbreaking to me to see that natural abundance left to shrivel and die on the vine.
How ever you do it, whether it is with me, your god, your church, your psychiatrist, your yoga practice – do what ever it takes to find your brilliance, talents and natural abundance so that you can share it with the world and live a life on purpose and with purpose.
Remember – You are never to old to be the person you could have been.