Are You Asking Spirit to Help or to Mind Read?

Understanding the Limitations and Expectations You Have Around Receiving Help

Sometimes we are in obvious need of help but are completely unable to articulate it even to ourselves…these are usually the times when we just wait for someone else to notice our predicament and offer a hand. I call this looking for a mind reader.

In situations when we find ourselves hoping for someone else to save us…we are usually doing so because within that moment we are actually not capable of seeking assistance ourselves and here is the reason why this often happens.

Option Lock

Option lock is a form of tunnel vision that keeps us from seeing or experiencing the various things around us that we could be paying attention to. A good way to visualize it is to imagine someone carrying an item that is too heavy for them down the stairs. It seemed manageable when they began, but pretty soon they are out of breath and it takes every ounce of their concentration just to maintain balance and hold themselves and the item up.

At this point, with all of their attention focused on maintaining their current position they are in an option lock. Unless they remove some of their attention away from maintaining this load…they will have no other course of action available and will literally allow the situation to play out in an unconscious way as they sit down, pinned underneath the items they are carrying until they can breath again.

The obvious course of action to the observing bystander would be to let go. This is not as easy as it may sound (as anyone who has learned to water ski and has been drug face first through 20 or so feet of water while relentlessly hanging on the handles will tell you ). It requires consciousness to make another choice.

So what happens to consciousness in situations like these? Where does it go?

Losing Consciousness

Anytime it takes so much of our concentration to just be with a situation it is difficult for us to direct our consciousness. If you think of your attention like the small beam of light that is produced by a flashlight, then consciousness would be the hand holding the light that ultimately illuminates our surroundings. When consciousness gets stuck, it’s no longer free to move and allow us to explore new options.

In situations that suck up all of our internal resources, we aren’t reserving enough energy to power our consciousness…or in other words to move the light. We are now in a mode that is similar to Star Trek’s many auxiliary power scenarios in which only the areas vital to survival are given any juice. This process is automatically switched on and controlled but just like in the science fiction version of this scene there is always a manual over ride. With our light stuck in the last place we left it…it can be difficult to remember that there is a way out of being on autopilot.

Regaining Consciousness

The first step toward regaining consciousness is always breath. If you breathe deeply for a few moments, you will have taken some of your attention back from whatever situation was absorbing it. This automatically releases us from autopilot and we are essentially once again free to move about the cabin!

Conscious Prayer: Making Well-Formed Requests

It is often at the times when we are in option lock and we loose consciousness that we need prayer the most. Spirit can’t answer unconscious prayers…it requires our consciousness to move the energy of our prayer requests throughout the spiritual realms. This is largely because of a little thing called free-will.

So as stated previously, step one is to breathe. The next step involves a high level of personal observation. Ask yourself, what do I want help with? What will having this help allow me to do or have or be that’s even more important (in other words, why does it matter or what are you trying to get for yourself by making this request)? How will I know when I’ve gotten what I have asked for?

Mind Reading: A Violation of Free Will

When I was a little girl, I had such a special connection with my mom that I was absolutely certain that she knew everything I was thinking. So certain was I of this, that I began to think I no longer needed to tell her anything about what I wanted. One day, through a great disappointment I discovered that she could not, in fact, read my mind. My wants and ideas had become too complicated for her to anticipate and I was going to have to learn to speak up and state what I wanted.

I think it works with spirit similarly. When we are in the beginning stages, what we want is usually connected to our basic needs and spirit always takes care of us in this way. As we grow beyond basic needs however…we’ve outgrown what spirit can automatically do for us and it is time for us to start directing the resources around us so that we get exactly what we want.

As much as we wish that spirit would sometimes just read our minds and take over our responsibility to govern ourselves within this universe, we must understand that spirit would never do anything to impede our gifts and/or power…that is why we have free-will.

We’ve been given consciousness for a reason…it is the power and responsibility inherited to us by our Creator Source…and it is our job, here in this earth experiment to learn to use this connection to create beauty, passion, purpose and joy within our lives

So if you catch yourself looking for a mind reader, realize quickly that the better way lies in empowering yourself instead…spirit is right there…ready, willing and waiting to fulfill your conscious requests!

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Comments

By Patricia - Spiritual Journey of a Lightworker on June 24th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

Paula, I used to expect others to read my mind and I thought I was pretty good at reading other people’s mind. I finally realized that wasn’t the case at all. I am learning that my guides aren’t mind readers either. I have to ask for what I want. I have to know what I want before I can ask. Great article.

By Paula Kawal on June 26th, 2008 at 4:14 am

Thanks Patricia.
I think it’s interesting how we ourselves can feel that we know exactly what we want and sometimes not be able to make it conscious. Of course making it conscious is what really puts the power behind our requests…it took me quite by surprise when I first discovered just how much of what I wanted from spirit was asked for unconsciously

Love and Light,

PK

By Giovani on April 19th, 2009 at 6:05 pm

Hi, Paula!

Thanks, for your thoughts about free will in the Law Of Attraction!

It’s easy to forget that the whol point of this is to see one’s will at work. Breathing does help, of course, as so many traditions remind us.

I hope we can avoid becoming complacent about all this, however, because in my creation of experimental spoken word CD’s, I have found that other–almost automatic means of reorienting the mind do exist. And, NLP has taught us that we can perform acts of mental time-travel to guide ourselves more easilly through confusing moments.

Nonetheless, your point seems valid to me.

Thanks, for giving me something to mull-over and apply! :O)

Sunshine & Blessings,
Giovani

By Paula Kawal on April 24th, 2009 at 10:53 am

Hi Giovani,

Spiritual requests (to take an NLP spin on it) are about learning to create change on the level of spirit (think Neurological Levels). We can try to create change on the behavioral level…however to really make things stick we have to climb into those spiritual levels as that is what allows the change to occur. Learning to be in and make requests from the spiritual level is just part one, translating that back through into the behavioral level is part two. When we do both with get amazing results! We can, however, get stuck in one side or the other of the process – this article is about what to do when you get stuck on the spiritual level and how to maintain the flow coming in from the level of spirit

Thanks for the sunshine – we are enjoying it and many blessings to you as well!

PK

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