Trust (Part 2)

“No wonder there’s so much tension, anxiety, and fear. Each of us actually believes that things should be the way we want them, instead of being the natural result of all the forces of creation.” – Michael A. Singer

Yesterday, I said:

“There is a deep intelligence guiding our rate of progress… And our job is not to speed it up, but to trust it.”

And, while it landed for many, it confused a few as well.

So let’s clarify it today.

What this statement doesn’t mean, obviously, is “don’t do anything.”

Action — dynamic, relentless, continuous action — is required, and most people vastly underestimate the amount of action needed to bring a great vision to life.

However:

While our actions may be within our control, the result of our actions is not; we don’t get to decide when our vision becomes our reality.

That part is obvious, and I know you’ve heard it a million times.

What isn’t so obvious is this next part:

If our actions are correct, but our vision still isn’t coming to life as quickly as we’d like…

…Maybe something smarter than us — life, nature, God, Tao, invisible eye in the sky, take your pick — has organized it that way.

If we haven’t found our ideal partner, yet…

…Maybe we aren’t ready for them (and/or they aren’t ready for us), and to meet them sooner would destroy our chances for a successful relationship, like planting a flower in the winter.

If we haven’t achieved financial success, yet…

…Maybe we aren’t ready for the challenges and complications that financial success brings, and to achieve it now would destabilize our ego and our lives, leaving us further behind for having achieved it.

If we haven’t healed the trauma causing us pain, yet…

…Maybe that pain is generating the specific type of growth that will lead us to uncovering the deeper purpose of lives, and removing our trauma would remove our fuel source.

If we feel like we’re moving too slowly…

…Maybe we’re going exactly as fast as our deeper psyche — our fears, our resistances, our capacity — is willing to go.

Maybe all the ways we slow ourselves down are the braking pads with which we are steering ourselves safely through our own unique process.

Maybe by going faster we would speed past critical lessons that will be needed at the next level, and rob ourselves of important wisdom that requires time to learn fully.

Maybe, just maybe:

Our rate of progress is exactly perfect, exactly as it is.

After all:
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Life has been organizing itself for billions of years.
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Our ego arrived a few decades ago.
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So, if our ego disagrees with life, chances are:
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Life is right.
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​Normally, I shy away from this sort of spiritual theorizing (God’s agenda is way above my pay-grade)…

…But this message message beat me over the head for four straight days during our retreat last weekend, and if I’m not sharing my insights I’m not doing my job.

So there’s that.

But I still don’t recommend believing anything I say on blind faith.

Instead, I recommend asking yourself this question:

“Would trusting my rate of progress instead of fighting and forcing it result in faster, smoother progress?”

And, if so…

…What’s stopping you?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

T

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