Where to Now?

I recently gave a speech on integrative health care. Yet if you asked me exactly what I said I cannot recall specifically. I prepared extensively what I wanted to say but when I began my written speech became more of a nuisance than an aid. Then I did something not unusual for me. I began having a conversation. Except it was like one the TV anchors. The dialogue just flowed through me.

The sequence of conversation took it's own flow. One sentence led to another without my conscious interference. The time in my reality disappeared. I could read faces as though they were telepathing thoughts about examples I should use or the direction the speech should take.

I would glance at the powerpoint slides just at the time the conversation would lead to a certain point. Then I came back and audience was staring at me as if I had said something important. I wondered what I had said. Now the feeling was of inspiration coming "through" me instead of through telepathing.

The messages were very clear.

1) Obstacles you encounter are not meant to be solved by you alone. They are there for your discovery of love and connectedness with others.

2) Since no one really owns the resources of the Earth what you need will find its way to you if you do not block it with walls of isolation--whether your need is love, support, learning, money, peace, renewal, or recapturing the love you alienated.

3) The act of forgiveness is really an act of your own humility, since you truly do not have the power to forgive another. You do have the power to forgive your own incompletion of internally-sourced anger that is often expressed at some external situation or person.

4) As long as you remember that you are spiritual beings (as point of origin) living a human existence then you realize love is what gave rise to your existence. And love is what gently guides you through the obstacle course of life.

5) The love We speak of is a smile, a hello, a few coins for someone in need, a non-judgemental attitude for a misdeed, letting someone else go first and you go second, and the recognition and acknowledgement that nothing you accomplish is done alone.

6) And finally, problems, more often than not, resolve themselves when you decide to resolve your inner conflict that fuels emotions of fear and anger.

These are a few thoughts for you to dwell on Bill.

Afondadieu.