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DiscoveriesThis morning, I got myself into quite a bout of frustration. Things just weren’t working the way I wanted them to and it felt like every avenue I tried, I kept running head first into a brick wall. I was trying to book a flight to visit my father in Maine, who has been in the hospital’s ICU for the past week. The flights I wanted weren’t available, the pricing was ridiculously high, the dates weren’t coinciding with my schedule, blah blah blah. I was so frustrated and the more I tried to push against the brick wall or find a way around it, the more frustrated I became.
Now for those who know me, you know it’s not very often that I dip into frustration, but when I do, it is intolerable. I faintly remember those days when frustration felt good. So much better than the despair I had been feeling. At least it gave me some of my power back. But nowadays, frustration is quite a few steps down the emotional scale than where I usually am. And boy, is it irritating!
So in the midst of my irritation, I jumped out of my chair and went to another room. I just had to get away from the computer. I stewed my way into the kitchen to fix something to eat. While preparing the food, I fretted and fumed over all the things that weren’t going how I wanted (good ol’ reliable Law of Attraction helped me find a myriad of other things, unrelated to the air travel, that I could fret & fume over too). And with all the ruckus going on in my head, I suddenly became aware of another ruckus. This one was outside my head though, lots of squawking and chirping, coming from outside my window. I huffed out loud, “What the hell is all that ruckus?! It’s distracting me!” and went to look for the cause.
Just outside my living room window, perched on a fig tree limb, there was a bird squawking as though it was the end of the world. It stared straight into my window, directly at me as I walked toward it, squawking with all its might. Its wings were flapping, its body tense, its neck stretched out toward me, calling and squawking and chirping. I immediately felt connected to it, and as we stared at each other, the bird began slowing and quieting its squawk. And I began to calm down and rediscover my peace once again. Then the squawk became a song, a beautiful, carefree no-holds-barred whistle-because-life-is-good song.
It was during this process of co-creation the bird and I had together that I realized Source speaks louder than me. Source will do whatever it takes to get your attention when you are not listening. Sometimes when your demand to feel good is so great but your resistance to it is pulling you in the opposite direction, it takes a louder ruckus to get your attention. And that’s what the bird did for me. It created a louder ruckus than the one I had created in order to get my attention. In essence, it out-squawked me.
Once my attention was off my own squawking, I was able to listen to the wisdom of nature, of life, and hear my own well-being in it.
It had been there all along, of course, despite my frustration. I just couldn’t hear it because I was squawking too loud. I had allowed myself to become consumed by my frustration and I couldn’t see the underlying current of well-being that exists underneath the mist of my perceived problem.
Life IS good, no matter what’s bubbling on the surface. Pushing against brick walls will only create more and stronger brick walls. Letting go of the resistance, releasing the need to push against, creates calm awareness and an open relaxing into the flow of Source, into the stream of wellness.
My beautiful friend flew away as I lovingly thanked it. And as I watched it fly freely away, I realized something else. That in addition to our Emotional Guidance System (EGS), we also have Nature to help lead us back into alignment. I wasn’t listening to my EGS, I wasn’t utilizing it properly. I was stuck and blinded in my emotion of frustration but I wasn’t listening to what the emotion was telling me (that the thought that I was thinking was not in alignment with the thought that Source is thinking). And so Source utilized another Guidance method to get my attention, Nature. How many other Guidance methods are out there, I wonder? I’m sure excited to discover more!
If you want to learn more about the emotional scale and the Emotional Guidance System, click here to go to the Abraham-Hicks website.
WOW! Prepare to be inspired (and maybe learn a few things about yourself in the process)!
