The Knowing
Can problems naturally resolve themselves?
This is a radical thought. Must we work everything out? Solve it, wrap it up and put it into a neat little box?
What if today, right now, you could let go of worrying about that one thing that's been plaguing your mind?
What would be possible? Could you wonder?
Wonder is that lightness of being, that playfulness that allows you to engage with possibility -- not because you need it, but because you're Inquisitive, your Curious. Both of these qualities are conscious patterns of Abundance.
Some would argue there's no place in our world for wonder anymore. Too much to do, to achieve. When we navigate with wonder, we capture the nuances and opportunities of life. This is a tall order with our ever increasing "Bleed to Succeed", "He who dies with the most toys wins" culture.
Does this sound a bit "woo-woo"? Maybe so, but there's inherent practicality in this message. When we're so busy needing and pushing and striving, we lose the connection with who we are and the world around us and in us.
This happened to me recently. I've been crazy busy with the marketing and promotion of my upcoming book Coaching Into Greatness. So tired . . . and always more to do, with no end in sight.
Then it struck me yesterday.
In all this rushing around, in my turbo book marketer mode, I'd lost touch with my knowing.
You see, I've always had a knowing about this book and the importance of Abundance Intelligence. It's not about ego. It's not arrogant. It's knowing.
I know it's my life's work.
And I know it's big.
I lost touch with that this week in the busyness of doing.
The first step in the Living Into Greatness process is Awareness. When you have Awareness, you can do anything. Now that I'm aware of what I've become disconnected to, I can step back, let go, breathe, and wonder.
And my knowing just got stronger.
What's your knowing?
Comments
Hi Kim.
What a great personal experience around you reconnecting with your higher self and the higher wisdom that is available if we slow down and turn inward not outward for restoration and direction. Woo-Woo? Nope. Other terms for this that I know of: inkling, gut feeling, intuition and dare I say it...hunch. Living from childlike wonder? Now there's a concept to bring to adults in our day and age--though isn't an example of that when even the "hardest" of us fall in love? Hm, did I just say that virtually out loud??
They told me early in recovery that sometimes the best thing to do about something is nothing. I couldn't grasp the concept-what came up was "but I have to fix, control or change this other wise it means I am weak!" Talk about conditioning, the illusion of struggle and control. Ah misdirected ego and will power: my payoff for living in the scarcity and conditioning patterns of those illusions was: "Look what I can do--and do well EVEN under these circumstances." And that in itself was my solution to needing to be MORE to compensate for not being enough!
Glad you had this experience and brought it out to us.
Hear you soon,
ET
Posted by: Elizabeth Tull | February 19, 2006 12:54 PM