Go Ask Lara #3

Dear Lara,

I have trouble on what it is that I really want to do with my life.  There are so many things that I can do, but I have to narrow down.  Don’t know how to do that since there are so many things that interest me.  Is there a secret to knowing what the heart desires.  I cannot do everything and not end up spreading myself too thin. Can you help with this?

Thanks,

A.F.  in Acton

Dear A. F., 

Close your eyes and visualize each activity that entices you.  Feel which one has more excitement around it.  Which one is easiest to visualize?  Which one do you pick first to visualize?  Which one has the most vibrant color or feeling attached to it?   Some of us are blessed with being good at many things, but, you are right, we have to choose one or two in order to focus our energies.  Let us start with one first.  

Know that there is a Magical Receiving Line.  This is a line where we are right on target.  Everything flows when we are standing or sitting or laying on this line.  We receive all that we need to move forward and be happy.  But, notice how easy it is to get off of this Magical Receiving Line.  Every time we have doubt or complain, we get off of the receiving line.  The universe desires to give to us and to have us expand and excel l in our dreams.  When we are in our own way, we get impatient, complain, and stop focusing on our desires.  We, instead, get distracted by all sorts of things.  Even being interested in so many things can be a distraction to our moving forward with any one of them.  It is great to be good at so many things, but when we are launching a business  or choosing a major, we have to focus.  If we spread ourselves too thin then we get distracted and may end up not doing anything. 

To stay on the Magical Receiving Line, just keep focusing on one main desire, the one that feels the absolute best, the most fun.  Keep replaying the scenario in your mind.  See yourself doing exactly what you love. Get the details in focus.  Make this your meditation.  Instead of meditating on your breath, or trying to not think of anything, or counting, or any sort of specific mediation, use your meditation window of time to visualize your desire.  This makes it sacred because your focused goal has now become what you meditate on.   Your meditation is now your focused visualization. 

You can feel yourself on the Magical Receiving Line.  This is a thin line and we have to stay focused in order to stay on it.  It is where we feel aligned, where we feel good. When we don’t feel good, we know we have strayed from the Magical Receiving Line.  Everyone likes to get free stuff.  Imagine, when you are on the Magical Receiving Line, you are receiving free stuff. Good just comes to you because you attract it with your vibration expecting to receive good.   When you get out of focus, you no longer attract the free stuff. That is the easiest way to feel it.  We are always happy when we receive free things, right? We know how that feels.  We can focus on receiving all sorts of good from the Universe when on the Magical Receiving Line. We know we need to stay focused in order to stay on this line.

When you choose the best desire by the way it sparkles when you feel it, you know you have landed on the Magical Receiving Line.  Now all you have to do is spend more of your time visualizing and feeling the scenario of your dreams and then make this your meditation.   The key is to visualize and feel it as often as you can to crowd out negative thoughts.  If we have complaining and stressful thoughts, it means we have strayed from the Magical Receiving Line.  If this happens, then we will not get the free feeling inside.   It means we lost focus.  The only thing to do is to get back on focus.  We don’t have to do anything but feel and visualize.  Then, we will get inspiration to do certain things, but it will come from the internal feeling of lightness.  There won’t be a “should” attached to it.  It won’t feel bad.  

When we focus on the Magical Receiving Line, then we are on a thin line and we don’t stray from it.  We are pointed in our visualization and feeling of our desire.  We stay on that wavelength all day by noticing if we are on this line.  Focus is everything.   Remember,  FUN = GOD.  Fun is Focus Unity Now.  God is Good Orderly Direction.   Focus Unity Now  = Good Orderly Direction.  Fun does equal God. It is the same thing, we have just proven it with words.

When we are on that Magical Receiving Line visualizing what we love and feeling it, then it must come into our reality.  However, we have to let go of the how and just focus on the what.  The details of the “How” of things is in the domain of the Universe.  It is not in our domain. If we try to make it our domain, we get out of focus.   Just focus on the best “what” that you desire to create.   Your feelings on what is the best for you at this moment in time will help you narrow down your focus so that it is pointed and poised, feeling the fun of the manifested dream even before it manifests. 

See you on the Magical Receiving Line, focusing on receiving your desire.  It feels like we just won the lottery when we feel our dreams come true.  If it doesn’t feel this way, then it is time to focus on one main thing and make it the main stage.  Meditate on only this.  Crowd out what no longer works by replacing it with the same film footage in your mind of what feels great.  Keep doing this until you see results.  If you don’t see results, you know you have not focused enough and got off of the Magical Receiving Line. Just get back on and focus more acutely.  

Congratulations!

All My Best,

Lara

The Natural World

So much of the world’s population is cut off from the natural world.  Many have forgotten their origins. Their eyes no longer have the ability to seek out beauty from the concrete jungles.  They no longer connect to the depth of their soul nor do they reach out to another.  Our world has become encased in a cement of suppressed feelings and disowned emotion.  Many have become living robots spending day to day living in rectangular structures, working in rectangular structures, transported in rectangular structures to finally end one day entombed in a rectangular structure.  They may get lucky enough to feel something real, but it is usually short lived.  And we wonder why we have wars.

We can only change ourselves, we are told.  Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.”  Are you going to spend each week far from the peace of nature, or will you save yourself by visiting your own soul in the real, natural world?  Will you be with animals?  Will you find a natural setting to soothe your soul?

All of us have our origins within Mother Nature. We are not separate from that which most humans destroy. We cannot deny that most of us contribute to the destruction of the planet. But, we do have choices.  Everything is interrelated.  We are all connected on a base level.

What if a young woman from the Western World went to Africa and saw a small child fighting for his/her life? Afflicted with starvation, the mother begs, “Please feed my child.” Would this young woman go home to her country and consciously choose to have her own children or would she save her money to help feed the ones already struggling to live?  

Having seen the destruction of the rain forest and the chopped down trees, would someone planning on building a house of new wood think twice?  Would they consciously choose to build differently using reused cartons, recycled tires, straw, mud and other sustainable materials?  Would they downsize and use part of their land to plant an organic garden?  Or would they mindlessly keep doing what the previous generations have done?  

Would the ones choosing to be part of the military decide instead to protect trees and wildlife, enriching the soil and planting with seedlings to feed the world instead of killing the ones already living here?  It is all a choice.

What can one person do?  A lot. One person can help other children and choose not to have their own.  One person can create an organic farm instead of learning how to operate a gun meant to annihilate someone. One person can go to a straw bale house building class and save many trees. One person can reduce, reuse and recycle.  One child going to school can choose to not buy candy at recess and instead save that money to help feed the starving.  One person can pick up trash on a beach that might have killed a sea turtle.  One person can plant a tree instead of chopping one down.  One person can share the ride and reduce the use of gasoline. One person can do a lot. That one person can be you.