How to live an inspired life - Stage 5 - Harmonic timing (Part 2)

Humility

It’s not about what you want,
it’s about what the universe wants of you.

If we come to recognize this powerful, influential universal movement as it unfolds, it generates humility, which is a good friend to have by our side. Humility triggers the ego to become quiet so the greater universal forces can work through us, giving us greater sensitivity to intelligence and timing.

Humility enhances our capacity to surrender to what is and provides us access to heightened wisdom.

We don’t have to believe in a higher power to recognize and feel the flow of timing play out in our lives. Experience is always more valuable than belief. Belief indicates a mental concept or framework whereas experience is based in our reality. To develop our ability to experience harmonic timing playing out in our lives, practice sitting back more often to see how things play out of their own accord

Those who recognize that there is a powerful force greater than the individual self at play generally are often considered to be very “lucky”. Luck, however, has nothing to do with it. The person is simply aligned with a natural force that guides them so that things come to together without much force of will. In fact, everyone is being guided, however, some choose to yield to it and others do not. Those who do not work with it or even acknowledge it tend to be the people who find life really hard work because they have cut themselves off from the support that the universal wisdom offers. Yielding to harmonic timing and the greater life force is essentially about trusting in and developing a relationship with higher intelligence.

Worry and Trust

Worry is the opposite of trust and faith. Worry indicates that you do not trust the universe and the natural flow of things to be supportive. Worry sinks and knots energy whereas trust allows energy to flow through unhindered and brings peace. There will always be something you can worry about, regardless of your situation. If you have millions of dollars, you can worry about how to spend it or who is after it. If you have no money, you can worry about how much money you don’t have. If you don’t have a child of your own, you can worry that you’re missing something and if you have a child, you can worry about how to raise them in the best possible way. Regardless of our circumstances, regardless of the person, we can all worry if we:

a) choose to worry, and
b) have established such a strong pattern of behavior that we worry because it is set up as a default setting.

If you are surrounded by worriers or you grew up with worriers, it's likely you will be a worrier, too. Of course, a little worry here and there is natural, but to engage in it for hours and hours each day is unhealthy and paralyzing. The good news is that it is possible to break the worry pattern.

How do we break the worry pattern? If you worry because you choose to worry, it is likely because it creates drama that occupies your mind with something to do. Maybe you get bored easily or there is simply not much going on around you so worrying actually provides entertainment. Therefore, you are receiving some kind of benefit from choosing to worry. You enjoy some aspect of it – it makes you high or mighty even for just a little while. Look for yourself – why do you engage your precious time and energy into worrying? What do you get out of it? Be honest. When you look this way, you can deconstruct the underlying reason you choose to engage with it. Then when you catch yourself in a mode of going into worry, you can instantly realize the underlying drive, where you can catch it and let it go.

If worry is largely an unconscious pattern of behavior, it can be harder to break. However, the simple act and practice of observing oneself and one's behavior will reveal when worry comes into play. When we continue to become more aware of this worry mode of being, we have many ways we can break it. Allowing yourself to relax into “not knowing” is a good place to start. Let it go even if just for a minute or two. If we also work at establishing trust in the universal order of things, it will add a great deal of power to your ability to break down worry patterns of behavior.

One of the things I see a lot is that people are simply uncomfortable with not having anything going on in their minds. If they were to suddenly become very quiet and still, with nothing “going on”, it freaks them out. There are many potential reasons as to why this occurs, one being that culturally, we are not taught how to be “okay” with nothing going on. In most cases, it is suggested, through cultural and educational training, that we must be engaged in “thinking” or “doing” at all times. It suggests that to be thinking and doing is productive and therefore desired, and to have nothing going on is somehow detrimental or a sign of weakness. And so, we come to worry and churn over things often because there is nothing else going on. What madness.

Trust and faith, by their very nature, are about letting go. It comes from the experience and understanding of a higher power or force at play that is potentially infinitely smarter than us, and if we have a spiritual orientation, we see that it is looking out for our best interest. The universal mind is so smart that no matter how hard we try to worry and come up with one million ways something could go wrong, the universe can think up a bazillion times more ways that it could turn out. We simply don’t have the capacity to comprehend what is possible. So we have the choice. We can either try to work it out with our worry, or we can let it go and have faith that it will turn out the way it will turn out, in its own way and according to its own harmonic timing.

Now, there are times when being cautious of danger comes into play and it may be mistaken for worry if we were to label it. Being cautious of danger is very different to worry and is necessary to adhere to when it arises. Generally though, activating cautious attention is usually not very often required and it is also not required for long periods. Worry, however, involves spending hours and hours thinking something over, which gives it a chronic quality type of behavior.

Timing

The human brain is not very good at following or comprehending time, especially in relation to the concept of linearity. Time seems to bend and shift according to what we are focused on. When we are engaged in something that inspires and motivates us, time seems to speed on by. Yet when we are engaged in something that doesn’t stimulate us in some way, time seems to slow down.

Though we tend to observe time as a linear structure, I suggest that we also open to the notion of time being more cyclic or wave-like. And inside that cyclic motion, we have periods where the cycle speeds up and slows down, much like the waves in the ocean. So when we can see timing as more wave-like, it is much easier to recognize a wave of activity when it’s coming. When the wave arrives, we can jump on our board and ride it all the way to the shore. And similarly, when we can recognize that there is no wave coming, we can practice patience and enjoy the extra time and space to relax and rest, knowing that another wave will come in when it is time.

Learning to move with the unfolding of harmonic timing allows for inspired living because it utilizes energy in the most efficient way.

Common teachings in regard to establishing a successful working life involves working incredibly hard and intense, usually until burnout occurs. However, with harmonic timing, burn out is not part of the equation. It is not to say that periods of intensity will not occur on occasion, however with an enhanced sensitivity to the movements of time, one will adjust accordingly, therefore avoiding disastrous burn outs.

Wholesome motivation provides us with stability. The energy of willingness fuels us with the energy. Focus helps to direct our energy in supportive ways to inspire growth and development. Intelligence enhances our capacity to manage large amounts of information and to work with larger groups of people. Harmonic timing equips us with a heightened sensitivity to the movements of the universal life force, which opens the doors to wisdom.

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