Spiritual Awakening: Don’t Try So Hard!!!
As I sat quietly on the bus ride home from Orlando after The American Cancer Society Relay For Life Leadership Summit I realized that things get easier when you look at the energy you are bringing to them. As part of the spiritual awakening process one major component is self discovery. The hardest part of the self discovery process is peeling back the onion and doing as Suzanne Kovi says getting naked with yourself. You must strip way all to layers of persona and facade and find who you really are. As you find who you truly are and you realize what was blocking you you begin to grow in mind, body, and spirit. As soon as you realize that you are flawed and need to make changes you begin to transform spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. As soon as you come to the realization that everything is in divine order just the way it is supposed to be you begin to enhance your personal and professional life.
As I got off the bus upon arrival to where my car was parked at The American Cancer Society Office and I helped to unload the items that went back into the office I began to think that the best thing I learned from The Relay For Life Leadership Summit was not to try so hard. I got into my car and the recurring message kept coming in and out of my mind as I drove home, don’t try so hard. When I arrived home I unpacked and this recurring message, don’t try so hard, dominated my thinking. It was GOD and The Ascended Masters telling me to just be me and stop trying so hard to impress people. I sat in quiet meditation and asked GOD what I needed to do and I received the answer of be more mellow in your approach to things, detach from expectations and outcomes, allow life to flow freely. I went to sleep and upon waking upon Sunday (12/7/2014) I was given the message to put football on the backburner and head out to my local Starbucks and to hang my Relay For Life Sign and engage with the patrons sharing what I was doing to help cancer patients and their families. Late in the day a friend came into The Starbucks with a friend of hers that I had never met and we began to talk about Relay For Life and she folded up a bill and put it in the canister. They left we exchanged hugs and then I looked in the canister and her donation was $100. I din’t even ask her for a donation. By not trying so hard I was given a very generous donation. On Monday (12/8/2014) after getting anew phone and transferring all the data to it I traveled to West Boca Raton and started to share Relay For Life with businesses. I decided I would just go with the flow and let things unfold as GOD wanted them to unfold. As a result of detaching from the outcome I secure $44 in donations in a 2 hour period of time. Today (12/9/2014) that friend who I saw at Starbucks went to http://main.acsevents.org/goto/jdogg2 and made a donation. In not trying so hard I am getting better results.
When I made the shift from focusing on those who said they would give and didn’t and getting angry and focusing on those giving and being happy the whole paradigm of my success changed. I found that more people were drawn to helping the cause when I took a mellower approach and simply shared my story. It was when I went deep inside and realized that the vibration I give will determine the vibration I receive.
When I stopped trying to be like other people and stopped comparing myself to others I found I became happier. It was when I decided to not try so hard to be like others that I began to find myself and step into my power and thus better answer my calling to be of service and value to others. When I made it less about being like others and finding my own niche that good things started to happen. In not trying so hard I have found things do get easier and that my future is brighter.
In not trying so hard and having faith in GOD to guide you one finds that life generally turns out fine. When I stopped trying to hard to understand why things are happening and just thought it is GOD’s will and he will work everything out that my life improved.
Let life flow and be you. Stay Positive!!!
