Guidance of the Month: August 2006
Q: If I choose to pursue bankruptcy, how can I tell if that decision is based on fear or love?
A: “Your decision will be right for you if you allow your heart, not your mind to lead you. If you choose to follow this course of action, will you be doing so to escape fear or move toward love of Self? Can you see this action as a way of informing your mind of what it needs to take into consideration, and leave the heart out entirely? If so, you will need to look more closely.
Why would you choose to take an action which would undermine your faith in your heart — your Higher Self? If you see this as a move towards stability — away from chaos, that may explain to you why it seems wise, but does it truly suit your deeper needs?
Ask yourself if you would pursue bankruptcy under less pressured circumstances. The answer is fairly obvious. Now ask yourself if you would pursue it only under extreme pressure to do so. Then ask — where is this pressure originating — from without or within? If you can truthfully say “without” then perhaps you have a case. If, however, the pressure you are feeling is mainly coming from within, then there is only one point of origin, and that is Ego. Spirit does not “pressure” — it guides, and gently, if firmly.
Do you believe you have only one exit door from your present situation? If so, then you need to reconsider and allow for the unknown to be factored in. YOU CANNOT KNOW CONSCIOUSLY ALL THE POSSIBILITIES AWAITING YOU IN EVERY MOMENT. You only think you can, and do. That is where most humans go wrong; by thinking they have all the answers, and choosing the most “logical” among those. This is backwards. You can only look at what you know, and then allow for millions of other possible outcomes to occur as well. Your solution will more likely be among the unknown than the known. Is this not often the way — at least when you remain open?
There is higher wisdom at work here, so it often seems confusing. You are not used to seeing and thinking and feeling in these ways. They are the ways of Spirit, not ego, and that is the nature of the shift you are now making. All of this will eventually become second nature to you. For now it is foreign and as such is slightly suspect — perhaps greatly suspect, based as it is on much that cannot be perceived readily by the five senses.
You are becoming a multi–sensory human. Remember this as you continue to bump up against the old ways — the old beliefs. They are too limited and limiting for the life you have chosen to open to, so now you must make new choices daily to align with that new way of being. Otherwise it will simply be more of the same.
The bottom line is to see beyond the demands of ego to the needs of Spirit. You will only know your truth by leaving ego behind.”