iAwake: Fluffing Pillows: Midge Steadman

We are no longer looking for things to change so we can feel better, only after we see things change.. We are remembering that in order to see things change, we must change the way we see things.
Doing this is what integrates the feminine principle, within both male and female. Some claim the Law of Attraction (like attracts like) is a female principal and that is what the planet is all about at the moment - reclaiming our feminine energies.

According to Abraham, (the channelled teacher of manifesting) "You have come forth to stand in the midst of ultimate contrast, in order to choose what you want." Out of the contrast a rocket of desire launches forth within you. This is referred to as an "energy spike." Since this is not where you are used to vibrating, in the moment in which this rocket of desire is born, you are not a vibrational match to it. After the initial high you begin to feel very weird, because you've just rocketed into another frequency and now you've come back to your normal frequency with new knowledge and you're not sure what to do about it. You are rather betwixt and between.

Your work at this point is to think about this new idea, play with it, imagine it and talk to yourself and others about it. When you have saturated yourself with these activities the new thought begins to feel more familiar to you. When this new thought which was once a rocket of desire begins to feel familiar to you it's not because of what you're living but because of what you're giving your attention to on a steady basis.

At last this new thought begins to feel so familiar to you that it's a vibrational match to your original rocket of desire and Poof! you've manifested your desire and you're standing in a new place. In this new place are a new set of contrasting desires and out of these contrasts a rocket of desire goes off within you, and at first it feels weird as it's different from where you're vibrating at the moment, so your work is to play with it, imagine it, talk about it, until it's a vibrational match with your rocket of desire and Poof! you are standing in a new place with your manifestation looking about at the contrasts etc...

I am told that this is the way our universal and eternal life works - and I believe it. It is said by the Guides that is why we came to Earth, as it has the leading edge, among all the planets, in contrasts. It's sort of like the song about New York City - 'if you can do it here - you can do it anywhere'.

Those who learn to create on this planet are known as "geniuses of creation." It's all about learning how to relate to the ideas we give birth to in our minds, before we set to work in the action arena.
I observed this dynamic at work on a very simplistic level the other night when I watched a clip from a program on animal intelligence. A banana was hung high over the heads of a small group of chimps. It was totally out of their reach, it was so impossibly high it just as well wasn't there. However, placed around the area were three boxes and a long stick, all the tools they needed to secure the banana. (The Guides tell us that we also have the solutions to all our dilemmas within reach if we will look around with our creative imagination.) So, the chimps looked up at the banana and stared scratching their heads and pacing back and forth under it.

They had a rocket of desire to get the banana and they didn't know how, which felt weird to them, as this was a new situation and did not feel in harmony with how they usually felt. Pacing and grimacing was added to the scratching - this was a very weird situation, indeed. The Law of Attraction states that whatever you focus on will eventually come to you and those chimps began to focus. For the majority it was too frustrating and they gave up fairly quickly, turning there backs on that stupid banana. One, a female named Marta continued to study the situation of the impossible banana as she REALLY wanted it. Eyeing the boxes, then the banana, boxes, banana her vibratory frequency began moving toward the solution fueled by her "rocket of desire."

She finally figured out to drag the boxes under the banana and stack them one upon the other. It took some time to learn how to stack them in such a way that they didn't topple over as soon as she jumped on them. Marta persevered. Stacking was mastered and then accomplished, Marta carefully climbed atop the pile and began jumping vigorously toward the banana - but to no avail, still too damn high. Eventually she discovered the stick and began jumping and swatting simultaneously. After a few highly energetic swats the banana flew through the air and landed on the ground.

None of the other chimps made a move toward it, I'm sure after all that work Marta would have lambasted them in an African heartbeat. Marta jumped down and retrieved her prize and as she stood happily in her new place as banana-conqueror, feeling satisfied with banana on her breath, she then looked out at the contrasts, until she felt a rocket of desire, which felt weird at first and then she began to play with it.

It is my understanding that we were meant to imagine more and observe less. As we stand in our current reality we give more attention to what is going on around us - then to ideas in our minds. This, of course, will attract more of what you are looking at and less of the dreams in your head. Sometimes we birth a new idea and it immediately makes us angry, as there is such a wide gap between what we are living and what we are wanting. We then judge ourselves as instant failures, "Oh no, another thing that I want, that I don't have."
Of course, if we view our world through the lens of "Oh no I'm here and it's there," our desire will continue to stay away from us as we are amplifying the energy of here (or what is) rather than filling our minds with there (what we want it to be).

At one level this is quite understandable, because if we have a desire that's spinning high and fast and a reality that's still moving pretty slow, the vibrational mis-match is so uncomfortable we will eventually give up saying, "Oh, I didn't want it anyway." But, that's usually a lie we tell ourselves in order to restore our comfort zone - it's such a usual reaction to the situation that it is considered normal. Since no one informed us that we came here to learn how to create through the energy of our desires, when a new idea births, we very quickly wrestle it to the ground and kill it, before it starts causing waves in our lives.

The Guides find this fascinating, as we are born into a universe that is designed to stimulate desires in us and we run around trying to knock-off as many as possible. Abraham tells us that what is needed is to realize we are vibrational beings who when experiencing a rocket of desire have two choices; Either we bring the frequency of our desire down to match our belief or we bring our belief up to match our desire. You see the universe doesn't know if the vibration we are offering is a response to our reality or our imagination - it just matches it - no questions asked. Which means you could be living in poverty or have a dread disease and if you could completely imagine health or wealth - Poof! you would have it, but first you would have to believe it!

In matters of manifesting it's more important to spend time in your mind and less time observing your reality. The universe is responding to your thoughts and feelings, not your reality. Your reality is just a manifestation of your earlier thought processes. What the Guides are saying is that our reality is not worth all the attention we give it. They claim we drown our senses in what is, instead of bubbling up into what can be. The Guides obviously don't know how addicted we are to observing and adjusting our physical reality.

Most of us still move from the place of making it better on the outside - assuming that it will make it better on the inside. "If I just keep the pillow-reality of our lives fluffed just so, it'll be alright." One of these days we'll figure out that if we make it better on the inside, everything on the outside will appear harmonious no matter what condition the pillows are in. Until then we'll just keep studying that banana that hangs high overhead as we fluff the pillows below.