Dealing with the Unexpected Future: through attention to inner guidance.
Most do not know how to deal with the Unexpected Future.
Even after a pandemic, the back step is to search for guarantee, for certainty, for those false prophets who will willingly make faux promises.
The story of the “Emperor’s New Clothes” is this type of fantasy meant to assure and dissuade from examining below the surface. Any who resist the false front of the sparkling new clothes are demeaned and demonized.
This is an issue of integrity both within self and with the inherent connection with all others. The question to ask: Where is honesty?
Honesty is the ability to be aligned with and express from the inner awareness of balance and resonance.
In this context, explore honesty with these questions:
- Is labelling a lack of clothing honestly new clothes?
- Is it honest for you to pretend? Is professing ignorance honest?
- Where is honesty in making excuses?
The professed appearance of the Emperor’s new clothes is more about your choice and your response and less about the external situation. But melded in hope, fear chides you to get lost in the dishonesty of the external event.
Whether you get lost and believe the false claims or you become embroiled in the fight to eradicate the false parade – either way your attention has been diverted from your inner path.
Your attention of the event is not for you to fix or react or deny the external happening.
Why? Because for the most part, what happens in the world is beyond your control.
Thus, most world events are opportunities to look at your life path and make adjustments within your awareness and choice — where you do have a say.
Believing power comes through control, we mistake the occurrence of the unexpected. We are instructed that if we can exert control, we can always anticipate clearly or predict reliably so nothing is ever, ever unexpected.
However, you are only able to control you – not any other person. Plus, your ability to live your life is based on your resiliency and your control – both of which are the antithesis of control – which come from false interpretations from fear-based stories and beliefs.
The false assumption also holds that control only comes when you have proven your worth. Falsely held, predictability proves personal capacity – or so the story goes.
The falsely held belief is that predictability proves personal capacity. Now you are in an unending rat race to prove and control.
Focused outwardly, of course the Emperor’s new clothes are mighty fine because this is the narrative which provides certainty and guarantee of your personal worth. Though there is no basis in reality other than all the others who willing behave as if they believe the dishonesty and the misconceptions paraded as truth. Wink, wink!
Focusing on your internal experience and giving attention to your inner awareness is the way for you to begin to understand what this external event brings to you.
This is how and where you connect to your clear sense of self and the focus of your emerging, blooming sense of resiliency.
Predictability is not necessary. Instead, you are aware of flow within and the inherent nonlocal connection which provides support in moments when your steps falter.
To step into what will be, allow awareness to approach and give attention to your inner guidance patiently abiding within.
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