This article is written by David Cameron -
Images of One - awesome author
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Acting: That which receives
I once had this dream. I was sitting on a small stool about 6 inches high, and this old and very friendly but vigorous man was sitting on a bigger stool, teaching me some lessons. And he said, ‘you cannot run this world by actions. You can only run it by The Word’. And the dream ended. It took about 2 years for me to fully understand what that all meant. Now I understand it well enough to make it workable. Through experience, testing and a lot of reading, it finally all became simply clear.
This is what it is all about
: Actions are the last component of the creation processes. It is a little like swimming competitively. You cannot win the Olympics if you only know how to vigorously thrash water and barely make it from one end of the pool to the other. You are acting, and very strongly. No one will fault you on effort in that pool. You would get full marks on effort, for sure. But the people who win swimming gold medals are the ones that prepare their spirit. Their being is prepared. They are confident, motivated, focused. Their mind is also prepared. Their technique is also prepared. They are rested and alert. And so on. Action in the pool is the most noticeable bit of their total winning package, but it is the final part of their creating that gold medal winning dash.
In your life, although you may not know it, you create your experiences first in your Self, spirit, being, then in your mind, then by your words, finally by your actions. It starts at being then moves on to thinking then to speaking then to acting. In fact, acting only puts into place the system necessary to receive and experience what you create in being, thinking and speaking.
Most people do not focus, nurture and tend to their first three steps of being, thinking and speaking – all they do is work like crazy all day and wonder why they are not ‘successful’. They do not use The Word. The Word refers to the laws of the universe, the way the universe works, on all levels, not just the visible and physical. These laws of the universe are not some commandments of God. They are simply the laws that regulate and enable the universe. These are laws that work not only spiritually, but can also be proven scientifically using quantum physics. The Word, these laws, has nothing to do with a particular religion or person or whatever else – the laws of the universe apply equally and unfailingly to everyone and everything at all time. They never err. These are laws such as the law of cause and effect (called karma or reaping and sowing in spiritual teachings, or the energy conservation laws in science) and so on.
Actions are part of The Word, The Laws of The Universe, but they are only a small component of it. It is important to know what role actions play and how to use them in creating wealth or anything else. Actions are important, for sure, but you must understand that they are the last step. Their role is to receive what you already have created on your other three levels. You create, then you receive your creations, then you experience them. Action is for receiving experiencing. You create a business in your Self, your being, then in your thoughts and words, and then you act to set up a system to receive this business in a manifested physical way so that you can experience it. See? Action does not create. It only receives and experiences.
In fact, when it comes to experiencing, again action does not create the experience – the mind does. Action just helps the mind in ‘doing’ the thing, then the mind decides ‘will I experience this positively, negatively, joyfully, fearfully, fast, slow…’
Know all this and you will stop thrashing about in the pool…
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