Dear Friends,
There is a powerful tool we always have at our disposal. It goes along with the idea that at any moment all possibilities exist. This thought alone has given me hope and fueled my imagination over the years. It particularly becomes meaningful when going through a challenging time. The idea that at any moment all possibilities exist, can bring hope to what might seem like a hopeless situation.
To me this thought coincides with the concept of parallel universes. That for every decision we make there are unlimited lives that are acting out the other decisions that could have been made or experiences that might have occurred. In fact, I have been able to access other realities after experiencing situations in my own life. In one instance, after a significant knee injury, I could feel/see/experience another reality so strongly which felt like it was just a breath away. In the other reality, I went home after a long day of hiking and hanging out with friends, happy and injury free. And it was not just my imagination, this vision was almost as real as the one where the injury occurred.
It was so frustrating to me at the time, as I was in significant discomfort, and I could not fathom why I was experiencing what I was at that moment. And it took a bit of time before I started playing with this concept rather than just feeling victimized to the reality I was in. It took me a while to realize I could access the energy of this other reality at any time. That I could merge with the other reality and reap some benefit from it.
I believe we go in and out of different parallel universes all the time. A few years ago, I was looking for a bag of summer sandals that I knew I had put in my closet in the guest room. When I checked they were not there. I looked all over the house and kept going back to that closet which seemed silly as the only thing in the closet was a picture against the wall and some clothes on hangers, nothing else on the floor, and it is a good size closet. I would have easily seen the bag of shoes. However, I kept going back and looking, several times. I finally gave up. A couple weeks later something prompted me to go back and look in the closet. I slid open the door, and the bag of shoes were there!
I was in a bit of shock and amazement at that moment and started laughing. A feeling of joy bubbled up in me that happens when my conscious mind steps aside and I experience something out of linear time and space. Whenever I tell this story, I can sometimes feel skepticism from others that I must have just missed seeing them. There was absolutely no way I could have missed them. It was a big bag and nothing else on the floor. For some reason, I had moved into another reality where the shoes were not there and then moved back into the reality where they were there. I often wondered why I experienced that situation so clearly where it left me without any doubt what transpired.
I feel this happened to open me up to being more fully aware of other possibilities to linear thinking. I bet many of you have had similar experiences where you lose something, maybe your keys, and know for sure you had put them somewhere only to find them missing. Then you go back later, and they are there. And I bet some of you thought you were just not paying attention or that you were tired or even losing it! However, can you be open to the possibility that there was something else going on? Can you allow yourself to open to the possibility that life as we think we know it, is not linear but goes out in all directions and encompasses things beyond what we believe we know to be true?
After experiencing the alternate reality from the knee injury so clearly, and then the shoe incident, I started playing with this idea of alternate universes. In one specific situation, I had significant financial debt that disappeared from an institutions system. I had spent a couple years making monthly payments and suddenly, one day, I could not access my account. After spending hours on the phone with them over the course of a few weeks, with several different people, and several different departments, I gave up. Not one person could find my information. I realized I had successfully moved into the reality where the debt was gone. I had spent a couple years playing in the other reality where the debt and situation did not occur. I would see it, feel it, and experience it in a way that it became an integral part of me and my new reality.
In merging with other realities I have had injuries or illnesses disappear completely and instantly. At other times, the injury was significant but the symptoms were lessened substantially than what I could have experienced. In the later situation where the symptoms did not go away completely, it was because a part of my mind was still attached to the injury and I had something I needed to learn from it.
I am wondering how many people reading this are thinking I am off my rocker, or delusional, or I am embellishing things? If you find yourself thinking any of these thoughts, can you suspend judgement even for a moment. Can you allow yourself to ponder on times where maybe something similar happened to you? Maybe you were driving down the road, and the traffic was badly congested, and then suddenly things just opened up. Perhaps, you were walking somewhere and you forgot where you were going and how you happened to get to where you were at that moment.
I am sharing this with you to bring more hope into your world. If you are going through a tough time, you can play with this idea of another reality where something different is being experienced. I am not saying to deny what you are going through, as that just sets up resistance and energy stagnation, but you can play with seeing/feeling/smelling/tasting another reality where things are going the way that you desire. When you practice this, it also helps you to feel better as it helps you to get out of your way, out of negativity or victimhood, and to engage the happy hormones in your bodies/the neurotransmitters that help us find our way out of depression, sadness, and lethargy.
The exciting thing is that when you play with this concept of all possibilities existing at any time, and other realities existing at the same time, your world opens. There is a lightness of being that comes from stepping out of linear time and allowing the magic of the cosmos to fill you up.
I know each one of you have experienced this magic. It could have been when you watch a child play, or a bird at a feeder, or gaze at someone you love. Something cracks open in you at those times when you are fully engaged in the moment. It is at those times, that all possibilities are at your disposal because you are open and have stepped out of linear time and left brain thinking. The more you can be fully present with whatever is in front of you, the greater your ability to access other possibilities. This presence allows energy to move and your being to step out of linear time and space.
As much as you can, allow the wonder and the magic of the infinite unlimited world to encompass your every cell, every fiber of your being. The universe will not disappoint you. Next time those keys disappear, affirm to yourself, ‘well that is interesting”, and see what happens! Allow yourself, to play with life and envision/feel etc. other realities where other possibilities await you. You are not running away from your life but you might just be running towards and merging with a more fulfilling and joyful experience.
Namaste, Rosemary