Be — All Else Will Come
Your desires are all becoming
Be-coming is an act of receiving
Not doing, or even thinking. Receiving.
BE and all else will come.
What if all you desire were to come to you if you could stop, more often and be?
Come — as in, make its way to you — tiptoe up on you, nudge you this way, turn your head that way; sprinkle your days with apparently unrelated sweetness until finally you find your desire entirely fulfilled…
As you be, so shall life come
You be-come all you allow.
‘There is no one like YOU in the world…
The more YOU you become the more you will draw the right people to you.
The more YOU you become the more fun your life will be…”— Steve Chandler & Rich Litvin
Chandler and Litvin’s ‘The Prosperous Coach’ is a wonderfully heartwarming read.
Much of the book says what most guidance says — Feel the pain and push on through… massive action yadayadayada… They do it warmly and with passion and purpose, but they’re still trying to persuade us to do, do, do, do, DO.
There’s a nugget, however, close to the finish, that makes nonsense of much of the rest of the text. They don’t seem to have noticed the nonsequitur. To me, it’s the crux of creation.
Litvin tells of how his wife, a talented musician, launched a project, flouting every principle proposed in the book. He owns his contempt of her foolish approach. How he groaned, inwardly, at her naivety…! How hard it was to stand by and watch…!
She didn’t take the massive action route. It just didn’t feel right to her. It didn’t match who she was and she knew it.
Instead, inviting a few close connections to an evening event, she was dismayed when only three confirmed.
Two of these cancelled on the day.
Litvin came home to a wife in floods of tears.
As he’d expected.
What he didn’t expect was the cause of the tears.
Joy, not desolation, had triggered her sobbing.
Turns out, the one person who not only confirmed but actually turned up as well(!) brought two friends along with her that evening. One of these was the head of a prestigious organisation.
Litvin’s wife was weeping with delight at a spectacular job offer that came to her from sharing herself in this way. Work and money a-plenty, fulfilling her heart’s deepest desire!
All of it came to her on a plate, as she followed her sweet little inkling…
Lucrative loveliness came from her choice to be rather than do!
She allowed her actions to be inspired by the way she wanted to be. She set herself up to be that, with a simple evening event amongst friends, rather than a big showy launch amongst punters.
She imagined how she wanted to be and allowed the specifics to come.
This kind of being and allowing desires to come is testament to the power of receiving. Instead of seeing our role as the do-er of life, we see it as the be-er and receiver instead.
What if creating all we desired were simply an act of receiving?
What if we could tune into the frequency that allows dreams to come true? What if we could receive our desires; instead of working our butts off to achieve them?
What kind of receiving is this?
For me, receiving is relaxed and allowing, easy and light, it’s gentle and playful and open. It’s like unlocking my front door — as I did this very morning — to find letterbox flowers from a client, just for me.
It’s like sunshine and breathing; it’s like the fox with its soft paws of moonlight.
It’s still. It’s sublime. It’s delightful.
The more I focus on receiving, the more delight pours into my life.
These days, when desires arise, I focus on their receiving. I love the idea of the me I would be, in the living of their full manifestation. These are the kinds of questions I play with, for days, weeks sometimes, whenever it feels good to focus here…
When I am being that version of me, what do I look, sound and feel like?
What am I saying to myself?
What am I becoming NOW as I receive more of this new idea of me?
What are the emotions that connect me to this expansion?
I enjoy receiving the benefit, NOW of this expanded version of me. I don’t need the manifestation in order to receive all I’ve become. I’m bridging the expansion via the emotions it contains. I can be this expansion, now. The specifics will come in time.
My fit, healthy body is a desire I have received. I know exactly how I did that. Its slenderness and ease delight me daily after all those years of heaviness and discomfort — the contrast that inspired my desire.
Clients come. Work is joy. Life is unfolding in fun!
And this is life after I thought I’d lost everything…
All desires feel to me now like an act of blessed receiving.
Where does that kind of receiving come from?
Being, not thinking, allows the receiving of creation. The power to create lies inside the ability to stop thinking.
“…I would say that the simple reason
why the majority of scientists
are not creative is not because
they don’t know how to think,
but because they don’t know
how to STOP thinking!”
— Eckhart Tolle
If you’re uncomfortable, frustrated, overwhelmed, despairing… No matter what the outer causes, however valid they may be, you need stillness to create something different.
Stillness gives you breathing space to imagine improvement.
To be that version of you.
To be it enough to allow the specifics to come.
To achieve that kind of stillness, you have to switch off the mind. Repeatedly. Often. At will.
Switching off the mind
Where does stillness come from? How do we switch off the mind? There’s enough written on this topic to fill a million bookshelves. So why don’t we do it more? What stops us accessing the bliss?
Chances are, we’re not allowing ourselves to focus on just how good that bliss will feel. We indulge our puppy-mind’s chunnering. We forget to call it to heel. We tolerate its restless, insatiable searching for satisfaction in outer effects.
We’re probably also not stilling the mind often enough to make impact on the busy-ness of the day.
“When you do use your mind, and particularly when a creative solution is needed, you oscillate every few minutes or so between thought and stillness, between mind and no-mind.
No-mind is consciousness without thought. Only in that way is it possible to think creatively, because only in that way does thought have any real power.
Thought alone, when it is no longer connected with the much vaster realm of consciousness, quickly becomes barren, insane, destructive.”
— Eckhart Tolle
When we stop thinking, we are simply being.
When you are not thinking, you’re truly being you.
If we don’t oscillate enough, touching base with our being, we lose ourselves in the thought streams around us. Our becoming gets tangled up in other people’s.
We lose ourselves, acting on someone else’s behalf.
Who are you, when you’re not being what others want you to be?
Doing what others want you to do?
Who are you now?
Who do you want to become?
What will it take to still yourself long enough to allow yourself to receive that?
“The privilege of a lifetime is to be who you are” — Joseph Campbell
What kind of privilege is this privilege of a lifetime, the privilege to be who you are?
Perhaps it doesn’t feel like a privilege, but something tells you it should. What would happen if it did feel that way? What if being you were important?
What if you could feel your importance? A glorious importance, a greatness, a purpose. Deserving of the homage to be paid to a star.
If there were no story, if now were the only moment, ever, how magnificent would it be, to be who you are?
Instead of criticising story, one would marvel at the senses, the sinews, the sighing, we would sink into this moment with delight.
To be who you are.
Not who you were or who you might one day become.
To be who you are is wholly captured in one in breath… and out…
To be who you are is to be simply alive.
Alive with all that pulses within you.
A trillion cells, alive, electric.
An infinity of brilliance, shining.
Who you are is the breath of the infinite, moving a body of intensified light.
Who you are is the presence of emotion, sensation: the receiver and moulder of thought.
Who you are is the desirer and creator: the lover, the relisher, the inventor, the delighter and more.
Dissolve the past, and the future.
See the presence of the infinite expressing its brilliance through every spark and bright filament.
You are an astonishment of atoms.
You are receiving full enlightenment, in this moment now!
If you stop the mind long enough to allow it.
“The privilege of a lifetime is to be who you are.”
— Joseph Campbell
Yes, privilege. No story.
You are the breath of life, being, in this moment.
You are the brilliance of life!
What if you could simply be this brilliance?
What if you could be this brilliance and allow all the specifics to come?
If you desire more from life — we surely all do — what if you could be it now and allow all the specifics to come in response? No action planning required. No wrestling with thoughts, for that matter, either.
What if it weren’t about the actions, the planning, the striving and learning? What if those acts worked best when allowed to come to us too? Through happy whims and promptings and sweet little inklings…
What if expansion could be a stream of unfoldings, coming to us as we simply allow ourselves to be?
Dolly Parton said, “Figure out who you are, and then do it on purpose.”
Swap be for do and you’re onto something…
Figure out who you are,
Then be that
On purpose.
Who are you? Really?
Are you what you do?
The sum of all your storylines?
Or are you a brilliance, a being of light?
What YOU do you choose to be, on purpose?
Be it.
Be it now, breathe it in… breathe it out.
Don’t think it.
Don’t do it….
Be it!
Acknowledgement: My blogs, my coaching and my life are founded on many wondrous teachings, most particularly those of Abraham-Hicks