The importance of the Universe being bigger than I thought it was.

I also think that's very important. To me, non-anticipation at the moment usually is about not imagining the future (both short term and long term) and instead focus on what needs immediate attention. For example, when I get caught up in thoughts like "where will I be in 2 years?", "How will I survive?", "what would be the best outcome of this or that?", I try to force myself to think about something tangible, like "I need to clean the yard", "what can I do now in this moment that would be a good act towards someone", "why don't I post something on the forum/social media", "what is expected from me job-wise at the moment and what can I do now to better meet these expectations" etc. And from my experience, the universe really does give back when I follow that path, though usually in unexpected ways and not always immediately! I think it's important to observe reality closely to notice these things, which in turn strengthens your faith in the universe/DCM.

I agree
 
Menna said:
but I think it is dangerous to think that the people who have good health and good jobs are further in the work than people who are sick and having a bad job or no job,

Although I agree with your statement I don't see where you infer that is what anyone said here in this thread. I am posting this to hopefully help people through life. There was no remark about if you are rich you are far along in the work.

It was more because below example could be misunderstood as if you get success you are on the right track (and then a lot of evil millionaires would be on the right track)

Menna said:
An example of being on the right track would be the opposite of the examples I gave. Applying for 5 jobs being called in for 3 interviews and getting hired. Dedicating yourself to a required training protocol and placing high in the rankings

Menna said:
I think you have miss understood me. "The Work" is important however I think it is more important to be practical and adjust/adapt to life. I am not saying material success is a direct correlation to your success in the work and IMO the opposite is true. What I am saying regardless of "The Work" is you have to pay bills, shelter clothes food with enough time and energy to pursue other areas such as "The Work" so my example was about if you are pursing something and its taking up your energy, time and providing little to support you and your family than life might be telling you to change it up. When I used the word path I didn't mean "The work" i meant practical life path that is suppose to provide the necessary "stuff" for you to live the life you want.

I don't think I misunderstood (and I don't disagree)
What I was trying to get at was what Keyhole formulated better:

Keyhole said:
If someone stands for truth and dedicates themselves to the Work, the General Law/4DSTS will go to all measures to stop that person making any progress.
[quote author=Cs]Q: Are you suggesting that this sickness of his mother's has been caused from 4th density STS?
A: Lesson number 1: Always expect attack. Lesson number 2: Know the modes of same. Lesson number 3: Know how to counteract same.

Attack can and will come in any form - your job, your health, family etc
With this in mind, being on the "right track" would be paying attention to objective reality, making choices based on your knowledge and acting accordingly. If someone is doing this then the universe recognizes this attempt to align with itself, and naturally opens up all possibilities for that individual. This could manifest as new job opportunities, health issues clearing up, new relationships or in fact anywhere that is currently "blocked" in ones life.

"Blocks" in ones life are usually because the person does not pay attention to reality and make choices which would benefit them due to any number of reasons. So it is not necessarily measuring ones progress in the Work by "worldly success", its more about those who have removed blocks in their lives due to making the right choices IMO.
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On the size of the universe:

For a long time I did not understand that there is a difference between the observable universe and the whole universe. I am not even talking about other planes here, just our physical space-time universe.

The difference is that we can observe only our bubble - the farthest distance is the light that we can see arriving from around 14 billion years ago. But that does not mean that there is nothing beyond that 14 billion light years distance. In fact, the physical universe can just as well go on indefinitely beyond that.

Even scientists admit that they do not know:

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
 
Non-anticipation seems to be a huge help is we're to get anywhere, we certainly don't anticipate unexpected BAD things that occur, for instance if you lose a job or you experience certain situations to learn from, we didn't participate in creating those did we? I struggled with the whole "anticipation/ non-anticipation" for a long time after reading it in "Life Is Religion" - especially with materialistic properties like applying for a job, how do you NOT anticipate GETTING the job if you're APPLYING and HOPING for it in the first place? but I think it came down to black&white thinking most likely.

luc said:
I also think that's very important. To me, non-anticipation at the moment usually is about not imagining the future (both short term and long term) and instead focus on what needs immediate attention. For example, when I get caught up in thoughts like "where will I be in 2 years?", "How will I survive?", "what would be the best outcome of this or that?", I try to force myself to think about something tangible, like "I need to clean the yard", "what can I do now in this moment that would be a good act towards someone", "why don't I post something on the forum/social media", "what is expected from me job-wise at the moment and what can I do now to better meet these expectations" etc. And from my experience, the universe really does give back when I follow that path, though usually in unexpected ways and not always immediately! I think it's important to observe reality closely to notice these things, which in turn strengthens your faith in the universe/DCM.

That's how I started seeing it, but still it's difficult not to look to the future. Examples like "I need to clean the yard" are really useful, very simple idea
of LIVING IN THE NOW, and not considering the future, being present and AWAKE rather than letting your mind wonder. It also links into adopting some kind of "care free" attitude, not anticipating and worrying..

If we anticipate TOO much, we can actually make ourselves unhappy in the moment...

What is wrong with efforts to "send love and light", the achieving of the goals of "world peace" or "personal prosperity"? What is wrong with wanting a "return to God", or "higher consciousness" or any of the touted experiences that are guaranteed to "initiate" a person to whatever they desire? the problem is ANTICIPATION. When you seek any of these things by "holding the thoughts" in the Left Brain in ancitipation of "making it real" you are RAPING THE MAIDEN OF THE WELL!

What if you are just trying to "believe it is NOW"? BELIEF is a function of the Left-brain; it blocks the manifestation Creativity because the creative Right brain is also the Empirical half of the brain that observes the dichotomy between the belief and the reality. Desire is anticipation. Anticipation is read by the Right brain as "in the future, therefore not right now", and the Right brain can only create NOW.

When we desire, we have a "future object" in mind. The Right brain only knows now.
If we "desire to love God", we have a concept (LEFT BRAIN) of the "future foal of loving God". It can't exist Now. Therefore we experience struggle to constantly "Love God", against the ongoing "Now" of "not loving God".

If we desire to win the lottery, and produce in the Left Brain "future image of money flowing into our life". It isn't now. So "now" continues moneyless.

If we desire happiness, and create the concept in the Left Brain, we have "future happiness" in mind. And the Right brain reads it as unhappiness now, and this can manifest in thousands of unhappy experiences.

By the same token, if we send love and light to any direct recipient, we are holding a concept of future "fixing" which signals a state of "brokenness" NOW to OUR Right brain, and the repercussions are felt in OUR life! In a large sense, we may be signaling the "Collective Right Brain" that a "future state of peace" is desired, and therefore, NOW is NOT peaceful. And the Right Brain creates NOW.

Q: (L) If someone wanted to win the lottery, for example, what would be the correct approach? What should they do, or be, or think, or say?

A: Completely pure intent, i.e., open. Non anticipatory.

Q: (L) Anticipation constricts the channels of creativity?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) A person has to be completely uncaring whether they get it or not, so to speak?

A: Happy-go-lucky attitude helps.

Q: (L) So, worry, tension, anticipation, and attachment to the idea, we constrict the flow?

A: Yes

[...]

Thus we see that the key becomes ACTING NOW with intent, but no imaginary anticipation for the future! A goal, wit applied WILL of action, which necessitates left brain conscious preparing and planning, via the heightened AWARENESS of the Right Brain, which deals directly with the present conditions, will result in an opening of life changing creative potential.

(The Wave (old series) Volume 3, PG.246 onwards)

But there's still definitely something I'm struggling with, for instance in my personal life right now I NEED a job, it is ESSENTIAL. and I'm NOT getting one, been to plenty of interviews, applied for LOTS of jobs, done my best, but just keep failing! In the past when I didn't "need" a job and was just applying for "something to do" I'd get them! but now I need one and I'm worrying, causing tension, attaching to the idea.... it just ain't happening! funny huh?

The internet pages that I need to go on to apply for jobs have just stopped working every time I go on them also, it's getting ridiculous.

How can you stop worrying/anticipating over something like that?
 
lilyalic said:
But there's still definitely something I'm struggling with, for instance in my personal life right now I NEED a job, it is ESSENTIAL. and I'm NOT getting one, been to plenty of interviews, applied for LOTS of jobs, done my best, but just keep failing! In the past when I didn't "need" a job and was just applying for "something to do" I'd get them! but now I need one and I'm worrying, causing tension, attaching to the idea.... it just ain't happening! funny huh?

The internet pages that I need to go on to apply for jobs have just stopped working every time I go on them also, it's getting ridiculous.

How can you stop worrying/anticipating over something like that?

I have been in that situation several times.

Actually I've almost never gotten a job I've applied for. Instead they seem to be offered to me when I start concentrating on something else. Like I decide that to starve, and be broke is good enough as I will use all the free time to learn to play the guitar. And just when I start feeling good about that, and feel that I've actually won, as I think it's much cooler to be able to play guitar than to work some mindless job to survive (and starving will make me as pretty as the models), The phone rings and someone offers me a job.

Once after having tried everything I could think of, and walking home from a failed attempt to get credit in the bank, I pointed my finger at God and said "now YOU do something!" with much determination (and no anticipation as I didn't really believe in God), and when I came home there was a message on the answer machine with a really good job offer.

Once in tears, I told God I'd quit my job for him if he didn't help me out (even though I immediately regretted and said I didn't mean it) I got a job soon after. (I talked a lot with God for a non believer)

Once when I decided I was going to make protest songs, and the job I got offered (to prevent me from it) was a really well paid one, and so I started to suspect that it might be that the evil eye is trying to bribe me.

Now that I decided to do drawings for SOTT so that being poor and unemployed would be a fitting for the time being, I have gotten I think 5 job offers in the last 2 months, so maybe I'm right about the evil eye..

As you said that when you didn't need the jobs there was a lot of offers, perhaps the reversed psychology works for you as well, and if you decide that you really don't want a job now as you have better things to do, then it might come (only problem is that it only works for me when I really mean it, so trying to fake it won't do, and it can be hard to mean it when one really needs money ASAP)
 
When you catch yourself anticipating say in your head "Stop". Then observe your surroundings your emotions/self and attend to the now. A responsibility that needs to be done now. I believe it's very normal to anticipate and if you do it for a few seconds to a minute and then stop its not a big deal I believe the problem arises when one dwells in anticipation.
 
Miss.K said:
I have been in that situation several times.

Actually I've almost never gotten a job I've applied for. Instead they seem to be offered to me when I start concentrating on something else. Like I decide that to starve, and be broke is good enough as I will use all the free time to learn to play the guitar. And just when I start feeling good about that, and feel that I've actually won, as I think it's much cooler to be able to play guitar than to work some mindless job to survive (and starving will make me as pretty as the models), The phone rings and someone offers me a job.

Once after having tried everything I could think of, and walking home from a failed attempt to get credit in the bank, I pointed my finger at God and said "now YOU do something!" with much determination (and no anticipation as I didn't really believe in God), and when I came home there was a message on the answer machine with a really good job offer.

Once in tears, I told God I'd quit my job for him if he didn't help me out (even though I immediately regretted and said I didn't mean it) I got a job soon after. (I talked a lot with God for a non believer)

Once when I decided I was going to make protest songs, and the job I got offered (to prevent me from it) was a really well paid one, and so I started to suspect that it might be that the evil eye is trying to bribe me.

Now that I decided to do drawings for SOTT so that being poor and unemployed would be a fitting for the time being, I have gotten I think 5 job offers in the last 2 months, so maybe I'm right about the evil eye..

As you said that when you didn't need the jobs there was a lot of offers, perhaps the reversed psychology works for you as well, and if you decide that you really don't want a job now as you have better things to do, then it might come (only problem is that it only works for me when I really mean it, so trying to fake it won't do, and it can be hard to mean it when one really needs money ASAP)

Yeah that seems to help, the whole "reverse psychology" does appear to be what's happening at the moment. I appreciate you putting your experience here, I am going to start concentrating on something else other than obsessing over getting a job. I should leave it a while anyway, try something different! It's funny because when the internet pages weren't working for jobs etc. the only pages that were working were Cass & SOTT (definitely a sign!).
 

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