Trust the Process
An Expression of Faith
The contents of this blog entry are near and dear to me and the subject matter revolves around much of what has been surfacing in my experience.
I came across the expression Trust the Process on Duran Duran Bassist John Taylor’s website. I absolutely fell in love with it and this is what it means to me. Life is a process of unfolding to your potential and trusting that your experience regardless of how it looks is a part of that process. I want to go deeper into this thought.
When I say regardless of how it looks it means simply this; the experiences I have are the ones I need in order to grow. This means that everything that occurs in my life is part of a higher orchestration. The purpose of which is to create the conditions necessary for the unfolding of my potential. Have you ever heard the Christian expression the way of the Cross? This is a highly spiritual term which means the worst thing in your life (your cross) becomes the best thing in your life. Trusting the Process is an act of faith. Your faith is in this, all that happens is for the expression of higher good. So embrace it, work with it and let it make you grow!
Resistance
If you look around in your life you’ll see people in various stages of this orchestration. When challenges arrive in our lives or the lives of others our first impulse is to judge and resist it. For me, this impulse is strongest with those I am in close relationship with. I don’t know how many times I have seen someone having trouble in their marriage or with their children and think, they shouldn’t be doing this! It is a challenge to remember the higher perspective. Often times when I see this in others it brings out a fear in me that I don’t want to see, or a complication that I don’t want to deal with but again it is all a form of resistance. What is being resisted? Life. I am resisting life and have placed my energy toward trying to bend it to my ideas of what it should be instead of Trusting the Process of higher good to unfold around me. We limit this process when we try to contain it within our ideas of how it will come.
A New Perspective
When I see what someone else is creating in their lives I remind myself of the truth. I try not to judge what I see. Instead I hold the knowing. I know that they are creating a condition that will set the stage for their greater good. This experience is just the one they need to have as the inner force that orchestrates it all knows what it is doing. I know that there is room for them to create whatever they want in their lives and that as they create they will learn. I have also learned to allow people their experiences, their creations and to know they are qualified to navigate life for themselves.
We can pinch ourselves off from life with the judgments that we make or we can allow ourselves the freedom of making no decisions about what we see. With that comes a love beyond the realms of normal experience because it’s difficult to truly love something when your busy holding it out at arms length so that you can decide if it should or should not be this or that. And this is a ludicrous thing to do because it is what it is, and can making a decision about what it should be effect any real change other than on our personal feelings about it? Now think carefully on this point because this will change the way you think, would you choose to feel negatively about someone or something that is part of the greater good unfolding in this world? What decisions would you make if you knew the power to make something good or bad lies within the thoughts you hold about it?
Open Instead of Closed
My most recent work has been to cultivate being open to life and allowing it to flow through me. Being receptive to the forces working around you and opening yourself to the possibilities hidden in all of life’s situations allows all good to come to forth. Life is motion. So practice accepting what comes your way by holding the knowing that life works for your ultimate good and Trust the Process!
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