Dear Universe…
You are so awesome! In my last post I mentioned how magnificent it would be to have Good Vibe Coach, Jeannette Maw as a guest on Earth~Harmony~Home.
I always love her perspective on things and wondered just what she’d have to say about the infinite choices we have each day to conscioiusly create the life we want for ourselves.
Jeannette accepted my invitation and is here with us today to share her Good Vibes!!
Thank you for responding and delivering what I asked for.
In Harmony… Debra
A Welcoming Round of Applause for Good Vibe Coach, Jeannette Maw
“What do you want once you realize you can have anything?” That’s the question posed by Gregg Braden at the end of his two day workshop in Salt Lake City a few years ago.
His answer? “Nothing.”
Braden shared that once we realize we are all powerful, able to create and experience and be whatever we want, that the strangest thing happens – we stop wanting everything. Instead, we settle into a life of enjoyment; of not needing anything to change in order to be perfectly satisfied with life.
It sounded inconceivable at first, but I’ve since come to understand (through personal glimpses of that very feeling) what Braden meant.
So the fact that I can also relate to Debra’s experience of feeling overwhelmed with infinite choices puzzles me a bit.
The Choice is up to me…
For example, “If I could live anywhere, is this really where I would pick?” That’s the question I kept coming back to as my boyfriend and I were buying a home together. The choice to purchase this particular house was agonizingly slow from Russ’ perspective.
(We walked through it four times over three months despite the fact that on our first showing I declared out loud within seconds of walking through the door, “I’ll take it.” I lost count of how many other homes we saw. Plus he has no idea how many neighborhoods I visited without him – not to mention how far I traveled to do that!)
Can you imagine the process I went through of choosing this man as my partner?! I’ll admit, that partner-shopping was even more fun and I spent lots more time on it than home shopping. (hee hee)
Because once we know how the world works, once we know we can have whatever we want, that we are all powerful and that nothing is beyond our reach – that simply by imagining it we can create it – that knowledge literally puts the whole world at our fingertips.
Which some of us respond to with hesitation. For some of us that omnipotent realization is a stopper because we wonder is this really what’s best? Is this truly what we most prefer? I mean, if we believe in limits we’re not as likely to ask questions like “Is this the right job for me?” or “Is this surgery the best solution?”
(Duh?!)
I remember when I was working with my mentor coach to build a coaching practice I expressed a serious doubt: “What if, in five years, I decide this isn’t what I want any more?” That thought, that possibility, was stopping me in my tracks with fear and doubt.
My brilliant coach responded with complete impatience, “Then you’ll choose something ELSE in five years!! Duh!”
She didn’t really say “duh,” but I did, when I realized how the fear that I might not be making the best possible choice was keeping me stuck.
Duh, that’s what we do!
Omni-Satisfaction ~ A Sure Thing
When we have new awareness of new desires, we move forward with those. We’re never stuck and we’re always evolving. We get divorced, we change jobs, we hire new doctors, we buy new clothes, we listen to other songs, we go to different restaurants, we follow wherever our true desire takes us.
All we can do is honor what that inner guidance is pointing us towards in the present moment. Right?
To anticipate future desires is a rather inept guessing game, especially since we may very well run into the phenomenon Gregg Braden describes of becoming omni-satisfied. (Ooh, I think I made that word up – I like it!)
But even as I write this, I’m thinking perhaps multiple desires make themselves known to us because there isn’t any ONE best answer. Maybe the path to satisfaction and fulfillment lies in so many ways that we couldn’t miss it if we tried.
Now that’s a nice thought …
Let’s hear yours!
Thank you, Jeannette (a note from Debra)
As always I so appreciate your spin on things. I love your new word: “omni-satisfied”! It’s good. Real good. And yes, I’ve had some gleaming examples of that very feeling in my life…more often than not to be honest…and it feels SO good to recognize and acknowledge that!
I think it’s especially during those “this is a biggie” times of transition when I feel the state of omni-satisfaction waning a bit. OK, even more than a bit.
It’s during those very times when I’ll now have the reminder of this post and I’ll be able to say to myself…
All things are possible, all of the time…it’s me who decides if I want to be limited in my creation or not. And I say not. I say unlimited, always. It’s me who decides if I want to change my mind two minutes later to choose something else. (Therein lies the relevance of, “it’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind”!) Most importantly,
- I am loved by me in every choice I make,
- I trust that I make choices with integrity,
- I withhold judgment on myself in all choices, and
- I give myself permission to feel oh so omni-satisfied without questioning if I’ve made the right choice…
Because as Jeannette so poignantly expressed, “Maybe the path to satisfaction and fulfillment lies in so many ways that we couldn’t miss it if we tried.”
Yes. I’m feeling that! :0)
How about you?
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Featured Guest: Jeannette Maw, Good Vibe Coach
23. March 2009 at 1:15 pm
Ahhhhh that really resonated with me! The power of choice .. esp the part about you thinking what if I don’t want to do this and your coach saying then just choose something else … ahahahah THAT easy!!
Been thru the whole omg what if this is a mistake thing and now I know there are no mistakes, just decisions and consequences. Don’t like a consequence, go back (or forward) and choose another.
Why it can get hard is cos often we want to make the ‘right’** choice the 1st time around .. but that wouldn’t account for much learning and sharing would it? Imagine if we always chose the ‘right’ path – the world would be boring and we would learn nothing new..
Omni-satisfied – I get glimpses of that ever so often but for the most part I’m happy to have desires and anticipate the future while loving my present at the same time.
I think I’ll go bake another cake now and deliciously anticipate eating it. oooo!
**not that right is right what i mean is for eg: the choice with fastest progress, most $, love etc, and least pain
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23. March 2009 at 2:13 pm
There are so many things I love about this blog of yours, Debra! What an honor to be part of it!
23. March 2009 at 9:16 pm
Hi there, I think it is absolutely marvelous that you got Jeanette to write a post for you.
Omni-Satisfied blows my mind. It is true, we get so short sighted as to what we want – that is wanting it from a place of scarcity.
Great insight. Choices abound!
Iyabo Asani
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26. March 2009 at 7:35 pm
I love love love this post! Totally puts things in the “downstream flow”! It makes it so easy, takes the pressure off of making the “right” decision… (which makes the process switch immediately to “upstream paddle”) Thanks for the encouragement and the words of wisdom! Here’s to the many paths to fulfillment and satisfaction…ahhhh.