Inside outside

I think it is human nature to try to change the outer world when we see a problem. After all if we have a leaky sink, we have to solve the problem before there’s a mess in the house. If the car breaks, it needs fixing. However, when our lives are not working, by all means, we must solve the immediate problems, but then we have to go inside of ourselves and find out what is really going on and what vibration we may have set up that attracted the mess to begin with.

I’ve gone through all sorts of hilarious metaphors in my life. I recall one time where everything sprang a leak in my house – the sprinklers broke, the pipes leaked, the sink and the toilets were leaking. Of course, I got them fixed, but then had to sit quietly and ask the angels to show me where I was leaking my energy in my life. I soon I saw that I was leaking my energy trying to solve everyone else’s problems instead of taking care of my own well being first. Another time I sprung leaks in the house and asked the same question – this time I was leaking my energy by worrying about a situation in my life. Miraculously as I changed, the leaks stopped occurring as well.

Lately I’ve been asking my body to communicate its needs with me even more strongly. I want to feel the presence of God more strongly – not just in my mind, emotions, and spirit – but also in the energy that runs through my body. That means I have to take care of my physical vehicle even better than I have in the past. Well, wouldn’t you know it, I can be a bit slow at times in listening to my OWN guidance, so sometimes the outside world has to get my attention. Suddenly my dryer started squeaking and the repair guys had to come out and lubricate the bearings. My car suddenly reminded me it needed an oil change. Something else started squeaking. Still I didn’t connect the dots, and kept asking my body what it needed. One night after praying hard, I was awakened two hours after going to sleep with my body hollering at me, “OIL!” “I need more OIL in your diet!” I could not stop laughing!! Everything in my life needed more oil including me!! So of course I listened and felt the changes almost immediately.

Now sometimes things just give out, get old, and break, but when you start seeing themes, that is when its time to sit quietly and take a look around your interior landscape.

While these are humorous examples, if we always try to solve only the exterior problems in our world without solving the inner problems, life will continue to mirror back to us what we have yet to see. We can only change our world by changing ourselves, and listening to our own inner guidance. Years ago the angels said, “Everything you want in the external world is within you first. Bring it to the surface of our your consciousness, and you will see the outer manifestations in your world.”

Did you know you can feel “In love” even if there is no one in your life? You can feel “rich” even if you don’t know how you can pay the bills. You can feel “safe” in the arms of God no matter where you live. By focusing on the love that life offers, you live in love. By focusing on the eternal gifts you feel abundant. By focusing on God’s presence in your heart, you feel safe. And in feeling these things, you begin to attract more.

Do an experiment this week. Seek out ways you want to feel what you want inside of yourself, even if you don’t yet to have the external things you want. If you want a peaceful world, seek to be the peacemaker if only for a day in all your interactions. If you want more abundance, seek to feel abundant by giving thanks for all you do have. (Anyone who has ever been to a third world country will attest to the fact that we have much to give thanks for!) If you want to feel loved, BE loving and see how people respond. If you want a new car figure out how it will make you feel and find ways to create that feeling within you.

The vibration of what we want in the outer world, truly does exist in our minds and hearts right now. Find it, feel it, be it, and see how life responds.