Enjoy the unfolding

It’s late Monday night and I’ve got tons to do still. I’m in a learning curve but I’m making lots of progress. It’s like things still a little dis-combobbled but yet it feels like they’re falling together. Then suddenly it dawned on me, ‘Oh yeah, I asked the Universe for something and this is the process of it unfolding. I almost didn’t recognize it because I wanted it to come a bit smoother and less bumpy.

You know what I’m talking about here don’t you?

It’s like when two years ago when I was 58 and it hit me I’m going to be 60 in just two years! Holy cow! I felt 35 inside. On top of that, I found out I couldn’t put off getting braces any longer, which I’d have to wear for two years! Damn it! (I just got them off! Yay!)

But then I decided, ok, I’m going to use this to my advantage and work on being the hottest, sexiest, healthiest 60 year old I could be. I wanted to change my identity of who I was. I’d never let myself step into that. If I didn’t do it now, when would I? So I really put my order ‘out there’ in to the Universe, to my Universal Manager.

I had no doubt I would become what I’d projected. I had used the Law of Attraction so many times when I coached my sales staff at our jewelry store. I’d say, ‘The Universe is just like a waitress….put your order out there and it’ll be delivered.’ Then they’d visualize a chalk board with the dollar amount of sales they’d want to walk in the door before they left for the day. One girl did this like clockwork because every time she would get what she ordered, and then some! Back then (20 years ago) we didn’t call it the Law of Attraction. It was something I understood and practiced. Something I believed in. It was what I used to get results in my life. Seemed natural to me then.

But, I’d put out this order for what I wanted in the next two years. Shortly after I declared it will all my heart and soul, the unthinkable happened! I was on vacation in Hawaii. It was January 1, 2009. A huge wave came up behind me and just slammed me down and I landed really hard on my tailbone. After that my back wasn’t the same. Four months later I awoke in such pain I couldn’t move. My husband inched me out of bed, got me to a doctor. To make a long story short, the doctor wanted to sever the nerves in my back so I couldn’t feel anything! I would have ended up in a wheel chair! There was nothing wrong with my back. It was a muscular problem due to a weak core, not a fracture or anything broken, although it felt like my back was shattered!

I was sure all my plans of being the hottest, sexiest I could be in two years were doomed! And I thought the Universe had turned against me.

But alas, this incident and having to get the braces were my saving grace in disguise! It was because of the fall that I started Physical Therapy, really committed to eating only real food and to losing weight to take pressure off my back. As I did my therapy twice daily I started to look toned, even sexy, and my back was getting better. And when I got my braces I ate less, not by choice but by necessity!

I realized I’d put my order out there and the Universal Manager had set up the exact events that had it come to fruition! And that is what I realized again tonight. I have this ‘feeling’, like a remembering, that it’s all falling into place, I just need to allow it to unfold and remember who I am and that I can have this, as it unfolds.

So when you’ve asked for something don’t be stuck or fooled on how it shows up or what the unfolding of it looks like. Keep the faith that it’s coming to you. Keep focused on and going for what you want.

What look like obstacles are really the stepping stones to your results!

Now why am I here, again?

Remember?

What you can’t see causes you suffering. What you can see you can shift.…Barbara De Angelis

What is your highest remembrance?

Do you remember who you really are?

Do you remember why you are here in this lifetime, on this planet at this time?

It is our purpose and our time to remember to remember.

A few months ago I got to be in the presence of Barbara De Angelis for three days as part of her Wisdom Weekend she presented in San Diego. This weekend was about transitions in life. Barbara is all about getting down to the nitty-gritty truth by digging deeper beyond what it looks like on the surface. Barbara is a very important spiritual leader of our time and she is one of my spiritual teachers. If you ever get the opportunity to work with her jump at it!

Barbara shared with us how she’d recently been on a small jet airplane flying from San Jose to Santa Barbara. It was an incredibly beautiful day with the sun shining and the sky was so blue and full of spectacular clouds. The small jet flew low, so she got to enjoy the beautiful view of the California coastline. But she couldn’t help but observe the strangest behavior of a man who took a window seat nearby. The shade was partially drawn closed when he sat down. This man obviously wanted to look out the window because he was bending down and doing all kinds of contortions in order to see the view through the approximately six inches window that was open for viewing. She watched in amazement that for the whole flight he did this. She couldn’t figure out why he didn’t just pull the shade up all the way. Then it occurred to her that the thought of pulling the shade up so he could take in the whole view didn’t even enter this man’s thought process. This is how he was ‘wired’, or conditioned to behave.

It’s kind of like the baby elephant story, you know, the baby elephant is tied to a post by a chain leash all its infancy. When it becomes an adult elephant the chain is removed, yet the elephant doesn’t venture beyond the boundary of the distance dictated by the chain it had worn for so many years. It has a ‘wired’ in boundary limitation and doesn’t even know it so it just behaves this way.

Just as the man on the airplane had a ‘wired’ in boundary for not changing his environment to expand his view. He adjusted to fit within the environment that could have been easily adjusted and allowed him to experience more joy, expansion and comfort as well as a whole new perspective!

One of my take-a-ways from the weekend; Just how much we are conditioned to stay within limiting boundaries and how that is so opposite of who we are and why we are here. It is our job in this lifetime to wake up and remember that we are pure love, at our highest vibration. Our conditioning blocks us from experiencing this most of the time unless we become very conscious of it, which most people don’t.

Each moment we want to be aware of how much our window shade is closed and remember to open it as far as possible. We want to become more and more aware of the ‘muck’ there is on our window of life and how that limits our view and thus prevents us from seeing, cuts us off from our feeling and blocks us from our knowing. All of this limits our expansion, which is our moment to moment purpose.

The ‘muck’ shows up for many as negative self talk. When we let that take charge of us instead of standing up to it, saying, ‘Wait a minute. This isn’t true and it’s not who I am or what I want to experience. How do I want it to be right now? How do I want to feel right now? How can I make it better right now? I choose happiness for ME right now, despite the circumstances. If there’s a lesson in everything, what can I learn from this?’

How Barbara put it, how much is your window shade of life drawn? What you can’t see causes you suffering. What you can see you can shift. How much dirt & grime and old patterns can you clean from your window of life? Wisdom is everywhere. It’s about living life consciously or unconsciously. It’s about remembering, recognizing more and more who you/we are.

How much further can you lift that shade and be willing to see the truth? To this degree you will expand, and only to this degree.

Ever wonder why some people, who have the same training and opportunity as others, yield such extremely different results? There are those that will take the information and achieve high levels of success and others that will explain all the reasons why they can’t make it happen. When the rubber meets the road it isn’t how much training you have had, where you went to school, your zip code or your parentage. It is all about knowing who you are and mastering your mindset.

Welcome to my site. I’m Kathryn K Strong. I’m here “Because YOU Matter”. My mission is all about sharing the secrets behind showing up powerfully, with confidence beyond belief, to create the results you desire in every area of your life!