I
used to think much like many do.... "if only
I could get myself into the right location, my
life would work and make sense!" I'm reminded
of a line in the Jackson Browne song, 'Your Bright
Baby Blues': 'No matter where I am, I can't
help feeling I'm just a day away from where I want
to be."
But
in my experience, its a moot point. Sure, sometimes
we are 'guided' to be in one place or another and
that guidance comes through our feelings. But it
never has anything to do with the particular place.
We all too easily forget, that we only attract
to us the people and life situations that mirror
our internal state.
So,
I'm musing in this moment a new thought: IT DOESN'T
MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE. If you are human and living
somewhere on the planet, you will attract hell
if you are hellish inside, and you will attract
bliss if you are blissfull inside. No exceptions!
(although there is a buffer of time between what
we project and what we experience as reality).
In
1995, I was strongly guided to move from Cape
Cod, Massachusetts to Scottsdale, Arizona -
both beautiful places but as different from each
other as two
different planets. It was a move that profoundly
changed my life, but in my spirit it was like a
'green light' went off as my internal yearnings
and synchronistic events lined up to point the
way for this to happen. But it wasn't easy... I
was like a fish into the frying pan in terms of
my
personal
changes
and challenges. For years, I questioned why my
higher self had put me in this place, and I questioned
my own clarity of perception.
But,
in hindsight, it all kind of makes sense now. There
were important lessons for me to learn and integrate
and we always get exactly what we need for our
own personal evolvement, in the time we need it.
And, it's not always pleasant going.
There
is plenty of higher consciousness awareness in
Arizona, but
also what might be labelled 'pod people' in droves,
but I suspect that's true for whatever area you
are in. Remember, 'pod people' (those who awareness
goes no further than the 9-5 'tick tock' world)
—are involved with their own evolutionary journey
too,
and those
of greater spiritual awareness provide an important
'entrainment' and balancing function in any given
community. And when you get right down to it, who
is to say who is the student and who is the teacher?!
A good measure of humility will keep us on a
healthy path.
Also,
cultural stereotypes can be completely bogus. I
always (subconsciously) thought of the deep south
as somewhat 'backward' due to the racial attitudes
of the past, etc. Yet, I recently have gotten to
know someone from Birmingham, Alabama and have
made a couple of trips there for some extended
time this fall and I never suspected that that
area would have such a vibrant, higher consciousness
community of loving individuals, well versed in
the mechanics of consciousness and metaphysics.
Yet, it does! Right there in the heart of the traditional
'Bible Belt'. But I'm realizing that I'm attracting
myself into these situations because of where I'm
at in terms of my own consciousness, and not because
of any other outside circumstances. Alabama is
still Alabama and Arizona is still Arizona. And
people are people!
But
the wonderful adventure of life is that we always
get to choose. I"m still here in the Phoenix
area, but lately, I"ve felt a restlessness
that is making my spirit yearn to live in a much
smaller community, out in the country. Something
more authentic, healthful, and less 'homogenized'.
So, my higher self may be preparing me for a move
in the near future and I'm 'paying attention' as
I strive to be mindful of what I wish to create
for myself.
One
thing I've learned in my 11 years here, is that our
lives are never about our external environments.
It's about our inner state of being. It's
never about events, other people or even geo/politics.
It's about what we are creating through our own
attention and focus. It is oh so easy to get distracted
from the fact that we are masters of our own destiny.
And, in truth, there is a big responsibility there
and many people don't want it, and would rather
put it on something or someone 'out there'.
So,
I just offer this as something to ponder. Heaven
or Hell is ours to create wherever we are. We should
be humbled as to having been entrusted with such
power.