The glass that's half full AND half empty

When you choose to play this game called life, you are living in a world of duality. A soul incarnate on earth. We think ourselves clever when we choose to reframe our thoughts. I, too, have had the epiphany that thoughts become things, and when I’m on song choose to see the glass half full rather than half empty. My enthusiasm buoyed by positive psychology, self-help and liberation from years of indoctrination.

Might we ask ourselves a different question? If the quality of our lives is influenced by the quality of the questions we ask, then what better question might we pose?

Ask not, “Is the glass half full OR half empty?” but rather “Is the glass half full AND half empty?”

Well intentioned motivational gurus encourage us to set goals, chant affirmations, draw visualisations and take massive action. This is the recipe for success we are told. How is it that goal setting doesn’t work for many of us?

The answer lay in this dualistic perspective. Everything has a polar opposite - good and bad, right and wrong, light and dark.  In goal seeking terms it translates to attracting what you want and simultaneously attracting its shadow, what you don’t want. Neale Donald Walshe once said, “When you declare yourself as light, you will attract all manner of darkness such that you can see yourself as light.” I mean, if you were light and attracted more light then you simply wouldn’t see it would you?

What options have you got?

• Persist in the attempt to create half a reality
• Embrace both sides of this dualistic coin
• Raise the game (consciousness) to a level where UNITY and not duality governs creation

The old model of goal setting would have you create from your solar plexis chakra, the seat of the will. In this realm everything you create has an equal and opposite force. Yes, you can create from this place as man has been doing for many years. You also create what you don’t want. It’s a vicious circle of creation and destruction.

The alternative in the new age of heart consciousness is to create from your heart chakra. That is not to say, that action is not required. I love a double negative. Au contraire, the mistake many make with heart centered creation is to not take action and sit and wait passively. This is the part misconstrued by advocates of The Secret. The path to conscious creation, the path to unity, is in letting your heart guide your will and taking the appropriate decisive action when you feel guided to do so. It doesn’t mean you go without (in material or spiritual terms), it means you go within to what Abraham refers to as The Vortex.

See you on the inside. i have a seat waiting for you.