I needed to get some quotes for some maintenance in my house; the first two estimates were so high, I didn’t bother to meet the customer representatives in person. Not having passed out from a third quote, I decided to have the sales person come to the house, take a look at what needed to be done, in person, and give me some real numbers.
Now, mind you, I know my calling. So when the rep arrives, I could sense the energy. I knew we would spend the first 30 minutes talking about the job. I was wrong. We spent the first 60 minutes talking about the job, and how it can impact relationships outside the workplace. Bottom line if an employee is miserable at work, there’s a 90% chance that she’s miserable at home too. It’s just the way it goes. As a group of souls, we’re simply not awake to our operating system. We don’t get it yet. Joy and peace is the way to go.
There was not one complaint that the customer rep mentioned that did not have a proposed solution. The overall disenchantment with “working,” “a job,” “employment,” I have dealt with in 16 Mondays and, over the past 4 years, in this blog. And if I haven’t touched upon it, there is some other writer and author who has. But here is a review of part of our conversation. The service rep’s questions, remarks, comments are in bold font.
If I could just work some decent hours. When everybody else is with their families at the shore on the weekends, and vacationing, I’m working. It’s hard!
Granted, most people work during the day, during the week, and they are off on the weekends. It’s during the week that we have these countrywide commutes, back and forth, to workplaces where there is roughly 75% disengagement. So what do we do? Well, first of all, we are going to have to redefine what is “decent,” but that’s not surprising. We’re redefining what is “normal, sane, appropriate, acceptable,” just to name a few.
Remember with a new narrative, the script totally flips. It’s no longer a question of decent hours, but hours of true expression, hours immersed in creating the new. The more we express the new narrative, the less attention we will place on “decent hours.” Decent hours are insignificant compared to hours of true expression. Focusing on “decent” hours will get you decent hours in the short-term, but the development of more problems in the long term.
Workplace misery is a part of a constellation that includes poor hours, poverty, racism, famine, war, domestic abuse, police brutality, genocide, etc. As such, we require a holistic approach to address these issues, and not an “issue-isolation” approach that denies that there is a common denominator in all these issues: the belief in separation.
But one more word on this topic. If you are needing a vacation or a “break” from what you are doing, you can safely say that you are not living your passion. Why? Because when the communication between you and the Source of your passion is flowing smoothly, you will know when to act and when not to act. Vacations and breaks are needed when we are working for the maintenance of the old narrative and the bottom line. These are two energy vampires. When we create in service to our Higher Self, our families, our communities and our planet, we are inspired and energized.
This is not what I really want to do. I only do it because it puts food on the table. If I could I would_______, all day, every day.
We live in a world that pushes us towards homogenization. Pretty much everybody is encouraged to be the same. When sameness is rejected, we are frowned upon, marginalized, ostracized, or simply ignored; but things are changing here. Actually a lot of people are becoming bored with normal! Maybe I should speak for myself. I am more apt to excuse myself from a conversation about life unfolding in the normal manner than I am from a conversation where someone did not/does not live inside the box. More and more people are realizing that they are more interested in conversations taking place within Unity Consciousness or Christ Consciousness than they are with, say, conversations among popular media folks. This is why there is a growing interest in channeling. The messages are so unlike anything to be found on FOX or CNN. These conversations are suggesting that what you came into the world to do is what makes you who you are, and it is what makes you an inspiration to those around you. We need examples of folks who follow their bliss, not folks who follow orders and convention.
The money is not all that great. I ain’t gonna retire rich, that’s for sure. You already are wealthy! All you need do is focus on expressing appreciation and gratitude for what you have. We come from abundance and we live by the grace of that abundance. The basis of wealth is not money. It is consciousness. It is by consciousness that we can create our lives anew. No matter how much money you have, if you have no consciousness of how you can, with the power of consciousness, change that life, then you’re simply, as A Course in Miracles puts it, “still sleeping.” It is by consciousness that the Universe is created and sustained. We are here on this planet to co-create physical, knock on wood, expressions of love and peace. In other words, we are all so focused away from the original divine intent of this journey that it is making us insane! Naturally being in physical form requires support, but if we were in communication with the Source of the experience, and not in separation from It, we would know that we are loved and supported (A Course of Love), and that love and support constitutes wealth, that is natural in unity and relationship with the Source.
Even when my children are adults, I won’t be able to stop working. I’ll have to earn a living until I die. Where are people getting these beliefs from? Out of cereal boxes? Contrary to popular opinion, no one benefits from these beliefs that carry such low frequencies. They make us feel miserable. They are used to make people feel worthless, and they border on being punishing! It is as if we are saying to someone, “You blew it; and you could have gotten yourself a good education and earned big bucks, but instead, you’re stuck with a “job” that you will have to work until you die!”
Nothing could be farther from the truth. You did not come here to earn a living, pay bills and die! You are a creator being, here to create heaven on earth. How you interpret “heaven” is totally up to you, and how you move away from the belief in “earning” a living is also on you. But we must release this false belief about earning and paying. It’s obvious that you already have “life,” and you did not have to earn it.
Finally, how do you begin to rewrite the script (I’m always asked this question) at this late date (usually the person is implying that they are over 50 or 55 years of age). It’s not really about a rewrite. It’s about writing something new; it’s about receiving vision, and creating a new narrative of “your life,” around this vision.
There was a commercial, some years ago, about a woman who is sitting with a contractor who, I suppose, is going to design her bathroom. The woman goes in her purse and pulls out a faucet, puts it on the desk, and asks the contractor, “Can you design the bathroom around this?”
This is similar to what we are being asked to do during this time of transition. This something that we all love to do, we are being asked to create a total life experience around it. For example, for me, I love to garden, to quilt, to knit, to read and write about the new. My life is a reflection of what I love to do, and people who know me can also tell you what my life is about because passion is transparent.
There are millions of people in the U.S. workplace who would rather not be there, and if they knew, for certain, that there was another way, they would not come to work another day. It is because of our observations of these people, who dislike their jobs and who are hell-bent on serving the bottom line, that we should all aspire to discovering what it is we came to this planet to do. Our passion is also our “path.” It is the path on which we will discover our contribution to the new narrative, and we have to practice reciting that narrative over and over and over again until it becomes, as A Course of Love states, “Who you are.”
Listen, I just turned 61. That can be tragic for a woman. And I’m African-American. Double tragedy. But what I have discovered is that it is not about turning anything. It’s about awakening to your eternal nature, your true identity. Before that, you’re simply asleep, chomping on these worn-out beliefs that are no good for you, your family, your community or this planet. Life begins with the “awakening,” as A Course in Miracles suggests; it begins with the awareness that you are not separate from the Source. Once you get that, union will become your new mantra!
I do not pretend to have all the answers. I can tell you that I know little or nothing at all. Every idea that I elaborate on, even unto the language that I use, I have received from my relationship with the Source of my being, and from A Course in Miracles, A Course of Love and The Way of Mastery (all represent the voice of the Source). I did not know of my own what I am here to do. It had to be communicated to me. What I do know for certain is that I am not separate, and I live in union and relationship with the Source of my being and passion. I know nothing alone, because alone and separate from the Source, I am nothing.
Neither are you.
