Sequethia’s Discovery Part Two

Once Sequethia calmed down, I was able to work with her. She asked me to “intuit” where she left her Thumb Drive.  I saw a never-used, almost hidden pocket in her brief case and saw the drive slipping between the folds of this hidden pocket.  I asked Sequethia if this made any sense to her and it didn’t.  However, she then opened her briefcase, found a “hidden” pocket where the thumb drive had slipped.  After we had a good laugh about the incident we talked about its spiritual significance. 

Sequethia did what we all do quite often.  She gave her “lost” thumb drive a meaning, and she projected this meaning out onto her world, creating a world view that was absolutely terrifying for her.  We all do this so regularly that we are not conscious that we do it as a habit.  Although our experiences are rarely as terrifying as Sequethia’s experience, we often go around in a low grade state of inner terror that eats away at the very fabric of our inner peace.  We do this because we place meaning on everything we see. 

To begin to find our way out of this place of inner turmoil, we continue yesterday’s lesson by working with the phrase: 

I HAVE GIVEN EVERYTHING I SEE ALL THE MEANING THAT IT HAS FOR ME 

Look around you and say this phrase to everything your eye falls upon.  I have given this desk all the meaning that it has for me, I have given this keyboard all the meaning that it has for me, I have given this Kindle all the meaning that it has for me…. Etc.  Now look within you and do the same:  I have given this memory all the meaning that it has for me, I have given this thought all the meaning that it has for me, etc.   

If you do this exercise several times today, you begin to realize how much you project a “meaning” onto something that creates turmoil for you.  Once you realize how much you do this, you can learn to choose to STOP IT so you can have the inner peace you desire.