As I listened to someone recounting a story to their clients, I found myself reminding myself of something I already knew, bringing me back to awareness, & suddenly being able to take it back to myself. 

And isn’t that Fantastic? Someone reminding you of something you can do so well for others in your life, yet at the present moment, you might not be doing that so well for yourself.  I believe you’ve all experienced something similar.

I feel inspired, excited, full of gratitude today.  It’s been a crazy two weeks.  Lots of work.  An incredibly lengthy to-do list.  For me, that’s saying a lot.  On a regular day it’s busy.  These past two weeks though, kinda crazy, chaotic busy. 

Then yesterday, I happened to notice something.  It was an in-my-face experience.  I’m sure you’ve all had them.  Somebody brings you a jolt back to reality by reminding you of one of your own “primary beliefs to live by”.  It was about having the ability to perceive challenges as opportunities.  It’s been a signature theme for me.  I guide all my clients to treat “Obstacles As Opportunities”. 

And yet, here I sat, for fourteen daze, diving into a huge & tangled technology trap that had seemed just, well, too big to face.  What happened when I did sit down to face it?  It grew bigger!  I had avoided it for so long I literally had no idea. 

I had become Sisyphus.  I was pushing a heavy rock.  It doesn’t matter the nature, or depth, or breadth, or impact, or source of the heavy rock.  I had found myself pushing a heavy rock up a big hill.  I bet you can see yourself, remembering lots of times in your life where you found yourself like this.  Maybe that’s a place you’re in today? 

Whether life-altering, or threatening, or simply perceived to be so, it is what it is.  The sooner we find the opportunity in it, the better.  That’s where the opening is.  The opening is the Opportunity.  

An external source delivering my message, a cautionary note to stay present to that which I know to be true!  Fortune!  Serendipity!  Opportunity provides energy!  Energy begins forward movement with intention.  And the circle closes with gratitude & I keep on working.  This time with gratitude, as my tortured trap of technology begins to untangle.  

I hope you can hear this message.  Today, it’s delivered second-hand, & I’m ever so grateful.  See obstacles as opportunities.  Feel the change at the cellular level.  Begin to light up the world with your smile again!

And while we readily acknowledge a measurability of the proficiency of our other five senses we turn somewhat in the opposite direction when it comes to the ‘sixth’ sense. Thus concessions are granted for those who may find themselves ‘challenged’ to one degree or another in the realm of sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. However, we barely acknowledge intuition’s existence outside of the ‘intuitive superstar’ category. And in that realm there’s often a negative connotation. If our intuition is not conditioned out of us, we may have a tendency to keep it hidden or even to deny it.

When we’re being lied to we often ‘sense’ it. But rather than feeling empowered out of trust in our inner knowing we are more likely to feel vulnerable and defenseless. Being lied to can leave us in a state that might be described as ’emotionally ambushed’. Confused, disempowered, chaotic, and inadequate, are characteristic emotions that might ensue.

Some ways to regain our emotional equilibrium and regain contact with our own power source might be found in the following:

• Becoming still and going inside for guidance one could pose the question, “What is the opportunity here for me to find?
• If there are current feelings of ‘loss’ showing up try to take an unbiased observer perspective to discover whether or not there really is a loss. Perhaps there is another way to view how you are feeling.

• Ask yourself how this person who is lying might be reflecting back to you some ways in which you might be personally in a ‘stuck’ place of rigidity or inflexibility.

• How might retaining this ‘relationship’ as it currently is, be keeping you separate from your deeper intuitive connection to a universal intelligence or energy?

• What can you do to affirm your connection to this source without giving power to the person who is lying? By handing over your power to another, you are also acting as a vehicle for your own disconnection?

• You can ask yourself, “Was there something about the messages that the person lying was giving you farther back in time from this incident that you might have intuitively questioned? And had you paid attention at that time would have constituted honoring your deeper self.

• Asking for help in managing your state can be beneficial. Most people will recognize the disempowered and disorienting state of mind that can result from the experience of being lied to. They can usually relate.

Try to remember that when you find the way to truly honor your deeper self in this situation you will more easily transition into a forgiving and detached state with roots in your empowered self. From this deeper place the actions of another have a tendency to not really impact you at all.

R.D. Laing, from Self and Others, 1961 tells us that “Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.”