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Where do you go for help?
Posted on May 7th, 2009
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Centria
Centria
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for May 07, 2009:
When you go directly to the Center of yourself, in the silent awareness, amidst the swirling voices and dances and movements, your truest answer will come.
The Center then directs you where to go for help.
You surrender to the Center and the Center guides:
1) I need help filling the woodroom. Center: how 'bout ask your husband?
2) I need help figuring out what to do at work. Center: (this time does not answer in words, but answers with this sense to surrender fully to your work, and all else will be provided.)
3) I am worried about ________ (fill in the blank) Center: sit in awareness with that person and let us love him/her together. Let's just sit quietly and see the beauty of that person shine forth with knowing of the perfect unfoldment of the highest good.
4) I need to pee! Center: Use the bathroom, use the woods. (Sorry guys, couldn't help it. Just wanted to show that the Center does not separate the "mundane" from the "spiritual". It's all One and the Center can assist with all sorts of help.)
5. I have a real problem. (Tell the Center your problem). Center: meditate with me all day today. Think about your problem without seeking an answer, and when your thoughts wander, come back to the problem. (This technique actually worked wonders with me last week!)
6. What do I do now? Center: Be in this moment. You'll know what to do.
7. What do I do now? Center: Turn around your question to the opposite.
8. Should I meditate now? Center: Yes...or maybe....No. (only your center can know that answer)
The point is, the Center is what's constant. It's awareness, it's God, it's the Universe, it's the All. Or it's the doorway you go through. It's the place where empty/full dissolves. And its "answer" for help could be a million different answers. The Center works to balance the individual, balance the whole, to help us see the sacredness in all that is.
We can only ask and receive our answer in the flow of this moment. The secret seems to be opening the channel so we can truly hear the answer apart from the patterned re-active responses. You could ask: Center? Should I turn on the computer now? and your conditioned voice that loves to check email or play on Gaia will say "yes" really quickly. But go to the silence and ask that question again. Find the place in yourself that acknowledges the Whole/the All. Ask again. Sometimes it helps to touch lightly on alternate possibilities if you're not sure. Then feel what answer seems right. The answer that seems right is closest to the Center.
Hmmm, hope this is making a bit of sense. Center, is this making any sense? Center: go for it, Kathy.
The Center then directs you where to go for help.
You surrender to the Center and the Center guides:
1) I need help filling the woodroom. Center: how 'bout ask your husband?
2) I need help figuring out what to do at work. Center: (this time does not answer in words, but answers with this sense to surrender fully to your work, and all else will be provided.)
3) I am worried about ________ (fill in the blank) Center: sit in awareness with that person and let us love him/her together. Let's just sit quietly and see the beauty of that person shine forth with knowing of the perfect unfoldment of the highest good.
4) I need to pee! Center: Use the bathroom, use the woods. (Sorry guys, couldn't help it. Just wanted to show that the Center does not separate the "mundane" from the "spiritual". It's all One and the Center can assist with all sorts of help.)
5. I have a real problem. (Tell the Center your problem). Center: meditate with me all day today. Think about your problem without seeking an answer, and when your thoughts wander, come back to the problem. (This technique actually worked wonders with me last week!)
6. What do I do now? Center: Be in this moment. You'll know what to do.
7. What do I do now? Center: Turn around your question to the opposite.
8. Should I meditate now? Center: Yes...or maybe....No. (only your center can know that answer)
The point is, the Center is what's constant. It's awareness, it's God, it's the Universe, it's the All. Or it's the doorway you go through. It's the place where empty/full dissolves. And its "answer" for help could be a million different answers. The Center works to balance the individual, balance the whole, to help us see the sacredness in all that is.
We can only ask and receive our answer in the flow of this moment. The secret seems to be opening the channel so we can truly hear the answer apart from the patterned re-active responses. You could ask: Center? Should I turn on the computer now? and your conditioned voice that loves to check email or play on Gaia will say "yes" really quickly. But go to the silence and ask that question again. Find the place in yourself that acknowledges the Whole/the All. Ask again. Sometimes it helps to touch lightly on alternate possibilities if you're not sure. Then feel what answer seems right. The answer that seems right is closest to the Center.
Hmmm, hope this is making a bit of sense. Center, is this making any sense? Center: go for it, Kathy.
Access: Public
Kathy, You have put my thoughts into words better than I could have.
All is One
I like the practical side of consulting over needing to take a pee :) One of my beefs with Star Trek and much of science fiction and fantasy, never seems to address these practicalities enough…
I've found that there is never one single person or place I go to for answers or for help. As you said, the answers are always within oneself–one's Center.
[Giggling] I like the way the Center has told you where to pee! :-) Somehow, when you need to pee, the Center answers very quickly ;-)
Thank you, Kathy, this is so good, and insightful, and in essence the same response I came up with (except I read yours before I got a chance to write mine, so now I don't have to. :)
I like that you gave examples too.
It's awareness, it's God, it's the Universe, it's the All. Or it's the
doorway you go through. It's the place where empty/full dissolves.
And its “answer” for help could be a million different answers. The
Center works to balance the individual, balance the whole, to help us
see the sacredness in all that is.
So true, and because it is balancing the whole sometimes the answers are not what we expect, but in retrospect perfect.
Hi guys! It's lovely to see you all and feel your wise energies coming through.
blewbird…nodding to the One that we are. Delightful that you stopped by to share.
Nicole, we should start a movement “the practical aspects of spirituality”! Never mind, it's probably already been done. I think Spirit, or the Center, has as much to offer about our dinner plans as about world hunger. Because maybe it's all as interconnected as interlaced fingers. Hmmmm?
Lenore, giggling with you. And I don't think the Center minds if we pee in the woods, mostly at least. Watch out for those wood ticks on the dried-leaf toilet paper though! Maybe if the Center knows we're going to be getting in trouble on that front the Center will advise, “better use the bathroom…” :)
Awww, Ruth, you should write one too because you'll probably think of lots to add. Or maybe, just as you get started writing, the Center will just start adding words left and right. Or, then again, maybe the Center will just advise you to read some more Rumi. ha ha, talking ourselves in circles again, aren't we?
Gael, YES. And that's why our logical minds sometimes can't really know. If the whole is being balanced, we're just part of the dance. It's also why I think rules and regulations and even spiritual ideas can't ever be grasped. Because they're a step away from an ever-changing ever-flowing Center that is going to be saying “yes” sometimes and “no” sometimes and our only true answer to any help we need is to go deep deep inside and listen.
Did you notice that the words “truest” and “trust” are almost the same? Perhaps in more than one way.
My Center must have motion sickness, LOL.
to me, reading this whole blog is center :) lovin' it
Paul, what a neat insight. Have never noticed the similarity of those words. Hmmm….more “food for thought”. P.S. I think all of our centers have motion sickness. Or that we're all a pendulum swinging back and forth. And so we swing out of balance, and then we swing in. And in the larger picture it's the movement of the pendulum that's important, not a static sense of balance. (hmm, Center says: listen to your own words, Kathy.)
Ohmsy, hello! You're center, I'm center, we're all center…hey, that should be a game. Lovin' you, girlfriend. :)
Thanks for reminding us of our direct connection…nothing to sort through…just pure life energy…I've got to remember to access on the direct line!
I think all of our centers have motion sickness.
Wahhh, I want to be special, Kathy! :-)
Or is that called terminal uniqueness which is incurable? Not sure.
Hi Jeannie, I like how you put that: to remember to access on the direct line! Nice to see you…
Paul, don't worry, you're unique. We're all unique and special in our own ways. And maybe our Center helps love that uniqueness into our awareness of that? (wow, what a convoluted sentence!)
Great post Kathy. We are always moving around the center.
Love,
Hal
Thanks, Hal. I love being aware of it, aware of that centerless center instead of spinning asleep out on one of the wheel spokes. I love the places where silence and action come together. Not to say those other places aren't fine and perfect just as they are. But, for me, surrendering to the Center opens up the realization that we're always moving around the center. :)
So insightful, truthful, and fun, Kathy! You make visiting the “center” sound like the best thing to do! 'Scuse me … I have an appointment with mine!
Rachel, you're funny! What's happened lately to me is that I'm remembering to check in with the Center and it's feeling sooooooo good. Hope you're having a good weekend as you prepare for your latest adventure.
Mmm… Oh, so sweetly 'centered'. I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to the 'center' of this blog, K. And you know what else, my 'center' is the one who told me to come over and see what your center was up to. And I'm glad for once that I listened to it. Lol. You rock. Love ya.
Amy :-)
Aren't we always so glad when…for once…we listen to that Center, Ms. Amy? I suspect you listen to yours lots! Then of course we could turn this upside down and backwards and say: there IS no center to listen to. Ha ha. Not going there today… to the centerless center. Sounds like that could be a movie or something. Glad to see ya, rocker girl.
Brilliant writing about where to go for help and practical examples on using the
Center. One could substitute that “whatever it is for you” phrase, but
you know, All those words conjur up OTHER to me, and Center is where
it's at.
Confessing, I do not use the Center. I hope to wind up there, but I
don't go their first, intentionally, and asking for help in this
moment.
Thank you for making it simple, Centria!
Yes, Carla, “whatever it is for you” works. So does God, Allah, the All, the Nothing, the Everything, the Universe…blah, blah, blah, all those words we use to describe something that's so hard to describe.
Confessing back to you, it feels like my whole life has changed in the past two weeks. And it has something to do with surrendering to the center in ways that haven't happened before. But the words in this simple blog don't even come close to explaining it…only the edges. and it's only been two weeks and I want it to be two months before REALLY writing about what feels new and just-birthed. Maybe the Peace Chamber was birthed inside. That's the closest that comes to describing it… Blessings to you for reading, Carla & a melting hug to you… with you.
OMG! This is absolutely brilliant, Kathy, and exactly what I needed to read at 4:52 AM, Thursday morn! I am sending you a melting hug through the world wide web. Love and smiles, M.
Michael, glad it was what you needed at that awfully early hour this morning! Can you feel another melting hug heading back your way? Blessings from the centerless Center!