When we’re young we expect the world. And we get it.
As small children, we expect all kinds of good things are going to arrive any second now. We don’t block anything off by saying, “That can’t happen,” or “I won’t get that because I don’t deserve it,” or “That’s too difficult,” or any of the other phrases that spring so easily to mind once we become adults. More than that, we know that anything is possible.
We live in a world of make believe where what we want comes true. Cross our fingers and the sun will stay behind a cloud. Speak to the birds in our back yard and they will understand. Ask for anything with enough feeling and we make it happen.
Accessing your true pathway comes when you go back to that state of expectation: when you feel inside you the real excitement that anything truly is possible!
The Power of Make Believe.
Most of the great metaphysical teachers have instructed us to “become as little children” if we are to enter the gates of Heaven on Earth. It’s an instruction that is worth paying attention to. That doesn’t mean you have to be “childish”, unless you think that singing and laughing and dancing are childish things to do. I think they are great ways to stay young and enjoy life!
To become as little children is to be filled with wonder at the world in which we live, to ask question after question after question, and to trust in the power of the universe to supply us with everything that we have ever wanted or needed.
In a word (or two): to become as a little child is to know once again that the world is one of make-believe where you get what you expect. It is to truly know that you can create your life as you wish it to be, when you believe something strongly enough.
Humans are made to believe, not to doubt and distrust. In fact, we are made from belief. We are made up of millions of cells, each one of which make-believes its way into existence. Think about it for a moment. How did you get where you are today?
You started off as a single cell that divided into two and then four and then on and on until you became recognisable. Each of those cells has its own special purpose, yet each is inextricably linked to the others in your body. So, when the first division occurred: when the single cell of the egg that became you divided into two, the whole of you must already have been expected. Each of those two cells contained the blueprint of all the others to come. You created yourself in what is possibly the greatest act of faith: the faith that you would be born.
Imagine yourself in those early hours. You are surrounded by warm liquid. You are filled with the, “Boom! Boom!” of your mother’s heartbeat as it pushes blood around her body and into your microscopic form. At that point in your life, how could you expect to need all the organisms that you then develop: the network of tissue, muscle, sinew and bone that was to become your liver, kidneys, stomach, intestines, heart, brain, skin and hair?
Something inside you must have known you would need it and that something acted against all logic, which would have told you that you were living in a liquid environment, so that it would “make sense” to grow gills and fins. That something showed faith in expecting you would need to grow beyond the bounds of logical thought.
Your two-celled state expected to need to walk, so it grew limbs. It expected to need to breathe in air (which is remarkable, considering it was in liquid at the time) so it grew lungs. It expected to think, so it developed a brain. It must have known that it would need to hear, see, smell and taste; so it grew ears, eyes, a nose and a tongue. The whole of your body, in all of its remarkable intricacy, must have been expected by those two tiny cells even before they began to divide!
Let’s go a little further back in time.
How did humans evolve from the simplest of single-celled life forms, the Amoeba, to be the complex organism that you are now? How did that happen? How did the Amoeba transform itself from one cell into millions? There was no human around to say, “This is the way I’m going to be.” There was no science-lab full of test tubes and people in white coats. There was sunshine and air and water and earth and algae, and that is all that there was. So the Amoeba must have contained the idea of YOU. In other words, it made-believe you were true…
Let’s look at a couple of examples from today’s world.
If a dragonfly did not expect to fly, it would never crawl up a stem and wait whilst the sun warms it to the point when it can burst out of its larval case and turn into the iridescent creature that it becomes. When a caterpillar pupates, its cells actually turn into a kind of DNA-soup for a while. It becomes liquid before solidifying again into the perfect form of the butterfly.
Life is amazing and full of wonder: and you are a part of that life.
In evolutionary terms: if reptiles had not expected to fly, they would not have grown wings so that they could evolve to become birds. If fish had not expected at some point to be able to live on land, amphibians and lizards would never have come along. All life is the result of expectation, so ultimately, you and I are the result of what the Amoeba expected to become. We have to be. If the Amoeba had not expected to become human, we would not be here!
If an Amoeba can ultimately become a human: just think of what we might eventually become…
Through the process of creating you, your cells never once said, “Oh, heck, this seems like a waste of time!” or, “There’s no way you can develop into a human, you might just as well give up now!” They did not worry about what they were doing or how they should do it. They knew no anxiety. They were certain that what they were doing was right. They just carried on dividing away until you were ready to come bursting out into the world, filled with the joy of expectation and the certainty of success!
And that’s how you were for the first few years of your life, because no one had taught your brain to doubt and distrust. No one had told you that you should not believe in yourself. Your world was still one of total make-believe. It wasn’t until later that people started saying things like “Oh, there no point in trying to do that, you’ll never make it!” or “You can’t have everything in life!” or “I wouldn’t do that if I were you, it’s way too risky!”
Those are all phrases that most of us have heard, and they are the sorts of expression that blunt our children’s growth, that stunt them from developing. They replace the joy of knowing everything is possible with the modern day crown of thorns: doubt. They change the world from one of certain wonder to one of fear.
Most people will tell you that almost everything is impossible. They’ll do their best to stop you following your dreams, but the boat you are in (your body) is yours and yours alone and you must not let anyone rock your boat…you must have real faith in your self.
You’ll be fine if you trust in your instincts and follow your intuition: if you open the pathways to your true inspiration.
People often say to me that their dreams can’t come true and then give me some logical reason why not, and I say: “As long as you think that, they won’t for sure!” I say:
“You have a song to sing. It is uniquely yours.
It is the song of your own inspiration.”
So what is inspiration?
It’s what makes you take in your breath more sharply as a light gleams in your eyes. It makes your body feel good. It brings a smile to your face. Its’ the feeling of being uplifted and 100% comfortable with who you are.
Where does it come from? From everywhere.
When can you get it? All the time.
A good place to start is to know that everything is possible when you make believe it is true. So, let’s make believe for a while.
Imagine time is like a huge three-dimensional web. It reaches out in all directions around you: forwards, backwards, left, right, up and down. You are at the centre of the web. The web leads from you to every moment of the past and every moment of the future and all those moments meet right now in you – and they meet in everyone else too.
What does that mean? It means you’re in touch with everything that ever was and ever will be. It means that every move you make, every emotion you feel, each thought you have, vibrates along the web: so everything in your life has an impact on both the past and the future as well as the present.
Now imagine you’re a mayfly. You live for just one day. But to you that day is a lifetime. Your time passes in a very different way to human time. You can’t imagine living for 60 days, let alone 60 years…
Now imagine you are enormous: you’re fifty miles tall if you’re an inch! You are so big that to you a human lifetime is no more than minute…and a mayfly’s whole life is the blink of your eye.
Time means nothing. It’s just an idea. It just tells you how big you are.
What about space?
Imagine you are that tall person but you have grown even bigger. You can look down on our world as it spins and turns. It is the size of a nut to you. You look all around you and see the countless stars and planets and decide to go for a stroll. To you, walking across light years of distance is no problem. In a minute or two (of your time) you have reached the outer limits of our universe and now you are in the next.
Now imagine you’re an amoeba. Moving just an inch is a long way for you and as to the idea of moving a whole foot? Well, that’s beyond your reality!
Distance means nothing. It’s just an idea. It just tells you how big you are.
Time and distance are not fixed. They didn’t begin and they do not end. They are oceans of waves that never wash up on the sands of a final shore and their pattern is always changing. And that means anything is possible!
You can take time and space and roll them up or spread them out like a blanket. You can mould them like clay round your fingers. You can fashion the world that you want. There is no limit to what you can do!
You can splash around in the ocean of endless waves where you are part of each here and each now. You can see you’re connected to every moment in time, and to everything in this world. That means you belong.
You are part of a song. You have your own voice and you sing your own song, but it’s part of a score that never ends, and the song carries on long after you have gone. The notes of that song are not what you think: they resonate with the feelings deep inside you. They stir in your heart and spread through your limbs. They unfold when you smile like a child.
They make anything possible all of the time. They inspire you with every new breath. Your inspiration is what makes you who you are!
My series of reports Simple Ways to Health, Wealth and Wisdom is designed to help you to rediscover the simple joy with which you were born: to recognise the light inside you and see it in all things, everywhere.
To find out more about how to look with wonder at that which is before you, please click here:
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