Switch
to a Better Channel!
by Keith Varnum
Peril, catastrophe and disaster.
These are our friends, allies and mentors.
Appearing as enemies on the surface, these seeming threats are our most
helpful teachers on our Earth adventure. These apparent foes repeatedly
demonstrate how we humans have awesome power over our fate and
circumstances in life.
When faced with an expected outcome we don't like, we have an option. We
can open to an alternative scenario, another framework, a different set of
rules. I jokingly call this handy ploy "switching channels."
I discovered that we all have the ability to change the channel or
perspective from which we are viewing-and creating!-our Earthvision
series. When the plot line goes from situation comedy to melodramatic soap
opera, we can do something about it!
We can simply let go of our old way of viewing the world and allow a fresh
point of view to emerge. When we decide to turn the dial, we find
ourselves shifted into a new reality-a different station with a new story
line that has a much better ending!
Grace to the Rescue
I first noticed this saving gift of grace when I was a kid. I've always
enjoyed the thrill and challenge of dangerous situations.
On the ice rink, I discovered that if I completely collapsed into a fall,
I came out unscathed. Caught in a precarious position when tackled on the
football field, I went with the force of the hit to tumble out of harm's
way. When in a sharp skid while driving, I embraced the skid by turning
directly into it to straighten the car. When my feet slipped on a rocky
trail, I went with the twist or slide and landed-like a cat-upright and
stable. Like the proverbial drunk falling safely down the staircase, I
used to sled down a steep set of wooden stairs on a makeshift cardboard
toboggan, deliberately crashing at the bottom and never getting hurt.
I practiced the knack of letting go in everyday situations, so that I was
able to successfully apply the skill in much more urgent and crucial
predicaments.
The Alchemy of Abandonment
As a teenager, the art of "abandonment to the moment" saved my
neck in several near-miss car encounters. Attempting to pass a vehicle on
the winding mountain roads of my home state of Pennsylvania, I found
myself on several occasions eyeball-to-eyeball with the driver of an
oncoming auto. With both cars going sixty miles per hour, my next stop in
five feet and two seconds was the Pearly Gates. Each time, I instinctively
let go-of the steering wheel, my projected scenario and my programmed
ideas of physics. Voila! I ended up rattled but untouched on the side of
the road.
When Up Against the Wall, Choose Magic
In my young twenties, as a professional journalist covering floods,
hurricanes, earthquakes, accidents and assorted disasters, I observed this
miraculous dynamic of super-natural powers on countless occasions. When
confronted with a choice between the dire prognosis of their current
belief system and an unknown outcome if they let go of those beliefs,
people will often choose to let go. They release their preconceptions of
how the physical universe works. They let go of their need to have events
fit their expectations of cause and effect. The reward for such surrender
of one's rigid beliefs and expectations is a much preferable outcome-in
fact, a miracle-or, at least, what we call a miracle: an occurrence
outside our box, our paradigm, beyond what we think or believe is
possible.
Your Beliefs, or Your Life!
I've witnessed people lifting two-ton trucks, ripping open steel elevator
doors, and performing medical procedures they had no way of knowing how to
conduct. How? By choosing to go with an unknown future instead of a known
past. When a person's own life, or the well-being of another, is at stake,
people often decide to drop the limitations taught by our culture.
When it's dramatically obvious that a known past will lead to a known-but
fatal-future, people will often choose to give up their familiar, current
beliefs and allow something fresh and new to occur.
There Is No Quota on Miracles
As a young journalist, a light bulb lit up inside my head: If we can tap
these super-normal abilities in a crisis, why can't we access these
extraordinary powers at will, whenever we want? Thus began my lifelong
quest for the Holy Grail-the sacred vessel that holds the nectar of the
gods, the knowledge of how to recapture our true nature of grace.
(c) 2004, Keith Varnum. All rights in all media reserved.
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Drawing from the wisdom of native and ancient spiritual traditions, Keith
Varnum shares his 30 years of practical success as an author, personal
coach, acupuncturist, radio host, vision quest guide and international
seminar leader with "The Dream Workshops." Keith helps people
get the love, money and health they want with his free Prosperity Ezine,
free Empowerment Tape and free Coaching at http://www.TheDream.com