In response to our newsletter article of
February 27, "Letting
Go," we received some
searching, heartbroken questions from one of our readers.
John Cali
This is a longer letter than we normally publish. But I think our
reader has asked some important questions, questions I know are on
the minds of many people today. This letter, in my opinion, is one
of the best and most intense "distillations" of those
eternal questions echoing down through the ages.
Chief Joseph’s response is far longer than typical. For that
reason I hesitated to publish this newsletter. But my gut feeling is
there are folks out there who really need to hear the message. If
that wasn’t so, I don’t believe Joseph would have given it to
me.
So here goes, starting with the letter from our reader.
"I have created some of the most difficult and traumatic
experiences in my life and find life quite difficult and even
unbearable at times. I don't understand WHY I have created this
‘mess from hell’ that is my life and I realize there is a
reason (but I don't know it).
"I find myself in a self-imposed solitary confinement.
Life has hurt me so much and has beaten me up so much, it's just
easier to remove myself. But that lets in a whole new set of
issues. I WANT to let go. I WANT a good and joyful life.
"So, how does one let go of the past hurts, the tapes
that keep playing in my head that are filled with negativity.
How do I get the Laws of Attraction to work for me? How do I get
myself out of the way?
"I am sure I am not the only entity in the universe that
asks these questions. You've read all the books, your brain has
absorbed the material intellectually, you've listened to all the
guided visualization tapes, you've done all the affirmations and
meditations and more! You've tried numerous ways to break
through this very stuck place.
"You can feel that you have been here for several
lifetimes trying to find this out. We've even tried not trying.
You understand how it all works.
"Yet, you have difficulty, that almost immobilizes you,
(in) taking that next step and get it all out of your mind (the
unnecessary stuff) and clear the space for Divine Spirit and
actually manifest and live it in your mind, body, spirit -- in
all parts of this lifetime, you have somehow, for some reason
created for yourself.
"How do you make it really real instead of just a great
idea and intellectual concept? How do we find out why we are
here, our purpose while we are here? What we are supposed to be
doing while we are here? And if we are creating continuous
terrible things, WHY?
"I'm sure you and Chief Joseph will be able to be very
helpful with your responses, as you always are, to very many
people. We know in our hearts and minds that life should be
joyful. But how do we get there? How do we really get our minds
and hearts to believe it and have faith; step aside and let
Divine Spirit show up, speak up and tell us the answers, that we
already know somewhere deep inside of us, but somehow cannot
remember? Why would we not want to truly help (ourselves)?"
Here’s Chief Joseph.
Chief Joseph
One of those eternal questions so many of you
ask is "Why?"
Why am I here? Why would I choose this pain and
suffering? Why would I want to torture myself endlessly? And so
on.
Well, friends, our only response to that is you do not have to
know why. You don’t have to know why your life is such a
mess. You don’t have to know why your life is not the joyful
vision you once held. You do not have to know why your lover is
such a challenge. You do not have to know why your body seems
to be falling apart. You do not have to know why you never have
enough money.
And the litany goes on.
Also, you do not have to know how you got into the messy
lifetime you’re living today.
Above all, you do not have to blame yourself for whatever pain and
sorrow and confusion you’re feeling right now in your life. You do
not have to chastise yourselves for the "mess from hell," to
use our reader’s words, you find yourselves in.
What all this comes down to is you’re trying too hard.
Trying doesn’t do it. The very word "trying" carries
with it a lack of faith in your ability to create the life you want.
Friends, you do not try. You do. And if do-ing
results in something you don’t want, you do it again, a
different way this time.
Do you see, feel the difference in the energy of the word
"try" and the word "do"?
Our reader asked this question in her letter:
"What we are supposed to be doing while we are here? And if we
are creating continuous terrible things, WHY?"
Life is supposed to be joyful, as you’ve heard us say many times
over the years, probably ad nauseam.
Nonetheless, it’s true -- your higher selves intended you to live
joyous, abundant, peaceful, fulfilling lives.
Another poignant question our reader asked at the end of her
letter:
"We know in our hearts and minds that life should be joyful.
But how do we get there? How do we really get our minds and hearts to
believe it and have faith; step aside and let Divine Spirit show up,
speak up and tell us the answers, that we already know somewhere deep
inside of us, but somehow cannot remember? Why would we not want to
truly help (ourselves)?"
The answer is so simple!
You do it by intending it to happen, and then by simply allowing
it to happen.
Intending is not your problem. You’re always intending to have
what you want. Allowing it to happen is the problem.
You cannot ever allow what you want into your lives by immersing
yourselves in the pain and trauma of the past.
The past has no power over you. All your power is in this
present moment. All of it!
If you keep thinking about your past, especially your painful past,
you’ll simply create more of that.
If you want to think of the past, think of the times when you felt
joyful, passionate, powerful. Then you’ll create more joy, passion,
and power in your present moments.
Friends, this is the "bottom line": Your higher selves
see you -- the human extension of themselves -- with the greatest
love, compassion, and understanding for where you are. They love you
unconditionally. They live in a state of constant joy and bliss. They
want the same for you.
The way for you to find your way back to that place of joy and
bliss you came from -- to find it while you are still here in your
physical bodies -- is to simply do whatever it takes to feel good.
Because when you are feeling good, you are then aligned with your
higher selves. When you are aligned with your higher selves, you see
your lives through their "eyes," from their perspective.
When you do that, you are fully aligned with all you want to
experience for the rest of your physical lifetimes. All of it.
It doesn’t matter why or how you got to where you are now. All
that matters is where you want to go from where you are now. But you
cannot get there from a place of being unhappy with where you
are now.
Look for things to feel happy about now. You will thereby
allow the Law of Attraction to bring you exactly what you want.
It’s all a matter of vibration. If you are constantly looking at
the parts of your lives you don’t like, you’re creating more of
that vibration -- and Law of Attraction delivers to you more of what
you don’t like.
If you look for the good in all your experiences, past or present
(there is good in all those experiences), you will create more of that
good in the days and years before you.
But no matter how you live out your lives, joyfully or painfully,
you cannot get it wrong. Your "mistakes," your pain, your
sadness are all steps on your journey to success.
You do not have to wait for that success in your "next
life." You can have it all now. You have all the power you need
at your fingertips to create the life of your dreams, here and now.
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Chief Joseph and I recently did two articles for the alternative
spirituality magazine, Cosmic
Lighthouse, on the hotly
controversial topic of prostitution. This was before the outbreak of
the prostitution scandal with Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York, my
home state. A pure "coincidence."
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