Food For Thought

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Here is this week's Food for Thought

I am writing this from New York - a quick 3-day trip to visit my little baby granddaughter. She is now almost 2 months old, what a difference since the last time I saw her at 9 days old. Now, she is a little person. And a very serious little person :). When I hold her close to my chest, the rest of the world disappears.

I love watching her. What is it like, being in such a tiny body...
She keeps looking around with her big blue eyes, trying so hard to figure out where she is. Her entire body gets so intensely focused :). From time to time, she furrows her brow...(yes, she does!) imagine that (!) "Why am I here? What is this new and different world all about?"
You think I am exaggerating, letting my imagination go wild...I really don't. The last thing I expected was to find such amazing concentration in a tiny infant. It's been quite a while since her father (my son :)) had been an infant. I was too overwhelmed and way too young to have the luxury of being an observer.

You can learn a lot from being with a baby, if you let yourself.
How do they make sense of things while still "pre-language?"
All they have is what they feel, what they sense and what their instinct tells them. Though I bet you it's right on the money.

You can't fool a baby. Because they absolutely 'get' who you are and what you are about.
Also, they haven't yet learned to pretend and to mask their feelings.

It's an amazing state, before the conditioning happens.
Before they've been taught to discount their feelings and to dismiss what they know instinctively, because the adults tell them to do so.

Tiny babies have no screens to filter the incoming information.
They have not yet learned to rely on their ego to "interpret" what's going on.
They make no projections, they have no previous painful experiences.

They haven't yet learned to doubt themselves.

But you don't remain a baby forever. And that's a good thing. You grow up.
Life happens. And with it - wonderful things and painful things happen as well. And when life throws you a few curved balls, which it always does, because that's the entire point: so you will learn how to duck, how to respond, how to heal and to change out of the experience - you begin to ask the right questions and you begin to grow.

At least that's the way it was intended. That's what was supposed to take place.
Too often, it did not.
It did not, because there wasn't anyone who could point the right way.
And because those who needed to do it, didn't know the way either.

So it became up to us.
Up to each and every one of us - to find the way out of the maze of doubt, pain and disappointment. Not babies anymore, not children either, we had to learn how to become Spiritual beings. Adults.
A long time ago, I had a sheet of paper on my refrigerator that someone had given me. It said: "This life is just a test. If it had been a real life, you would have been given instructions where to go and what to do." I put it up because I thought it was funny.

Do you live your life as if this were true?
Because in truth, it is not just a test. You are living this life for a reason.

I had an interesting conversation with my son last night about life and what matters, which echoed a recent survey made by my friend, a self- development teacher. She asked her subscribers (over 3,000 of them) to pick what they wanted to focus on most in the next course she would offer. The responses were fascinating.

Over 80% of people, both men and women said they wanted to learn about how to live a life filled with meaning and purpose, how to make their lives matter, and how to be happy doing it. They chose this over courses on "Creating Financial Success and Abundance," and on "Making Your Relationship Work."

Think about it.

And in case you've you been wondering "where is this world going?"- it is going in the right direction! And it is changing - positively, even though outwardly, to many, it may still look that it's all falling apart.

No, the old ways are no longer working.
And - Yes, all of it has to come apart.
So that it can then - come together, in a new and better way.
And you are already sensing it, aren't you? You do feel it, or - know it, otherwise you would not be reading this letter, you would have stopped long ago.

Only recently, workshops on Financial Success or Relationships would have been the most attractive. Today, while these issues remain very important, more and more of you realize that unless you discover a way to make yourself and your life matter, you won't be able to truly enjoy the financial success. Today, you know you need to find a way to feel good and to be happy regardless of the external circumstances.

You also realize that unless you create a beautiful relationship with YOU, no relationship will another will ever work.

In the past you could say "I know I need to make time to look at my life, but right now I need to make money first," or "As soon as I meet my love, I will look at everything else"...today, you no longer feel this way.

And this makes my heart sing. This touches me so deeply.
In my work at the School and also with private clients, I see people taking such huge leaps. So bravely unraveling "the baggage" that was tying them to the past and letting it all go, letting their Light shine...
Such courage, so inspiring. People of different ages - from 22 to in their 60ies, coming from different religious backgrounds and different belief systems...doing the work and changing SO fast...If I wasn't witnessing it, I would have a hard time believing it myself.
Truly - The stuff of Magic!

I am so grateful to be part of this. As I said before and will always be saying, I get as much or more out of the experience....

All for now.

My old students, see you on Tuesday night!
My new students - see you on Wednesday, the 16th.

Love, Auriela
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