Greetings and Welcome,
Firstly some housekeeping: I’ve recently returned to live in Ashland, OR where I had previously lived for six years. All of my new contact info is on my website but I’ll repeat here that my new telephone number is (541) 552-1080. Although almost all of my Mentoring and Healing work is by telephone, if you are located anywhere near southern Oregon I am also available to work with you in person here in Ashland. Just call me or write me through the contact form. I will respond to you quickly.
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As part of my own daily personal expansion, I am working with a ten-week program called “The Presence Process”.
I thought you might be interested in what the author shares as his “New Agreement With The Universe”. The following excerpt comes from page 59 of Michael Brown’s companion e-Book called “The Art of Integration”:
“As dredging up the past lost its glamour I instead began to focus on my present circumstances by constructing a new agreement with the universe about the purpose of my life experience, one that would serve only to awaken and set me free in each moment.
My new agreement with the universe about my life experiences is as follows:
Without exception there are no accidents in my life. I therefore remove the words coincidence, luck and chance from my vocabulary. Nothing happens to me by chance and nothing ever happens late or early. In other words, nothing just happens. In this new agreement with the universe every experience, be it physical, mental or emotional, is deliberate and has purpose and therefore meaning. This includes all encounters I have with nature, be it with plants, birds, bugs and even weather conditions. This also includes all encounters I have with technology, be it the performance of my computer, the remote control for the gate, the light bulb or the telephone. This also includes all people I encounter. There is no such thing as a chance meeting in my new agreement with the universe. To underline all this my agreement with the universe states that every experience I have is in my best interest and comes to assist me in my growth as a spiritual being and as an opportunity to release myself from the illusions of the past. Every experience I have is therefore an invitation extended to me by the universe to come into the present moment.
This agreement with the universe is not selective; it is inclusive. It is not suspended just because I am tired and irritable, or because it is a Sunday or my day off. No event or experience is excluded from this new agreement. I cannot choose therefore to be selective about what is and what is not a valid growth experience. Based on this agreement with the universe my entire life now becomes a valid growth experience. Just because I do not enjoy the experience does not make it invalid. In fact, it is most likely more valid if it rubs me up the wrong way. If I am being selective in what is a valid experience it is because I am not yet ready to deal with the information that I am receiving or because I simply don’t want to know. Or, because in that moment I am too unconscious to even perceive my experiences in this way. In fact a key to knowing whether I am in the present or in the past is whether or not I am conscious of this new agreement with the universe. In the past I have no agreement with anything and so when my awareness wanders into this illusionary place called ‘the past’, or even ‘the future’, my life appears haphazard, disconnected, meaningless and chaotic. But the fact remains that according to my new agreement with the universe everything that happens in my life is relevant. Everything is God attempting to break through my misguided interpretations and into my conscious awareness.
This new agreement with the universe enables me to take my first step into the arena of ‘the free’. Freedom is responsibility. In other words, freedom is based on my ability to respond to whatever is happening to me in any given moment. If I am reacting I am choosing to be in the past, I am choosing to behave as if I have no agreement with the universe regarding my life experiences. It is only when I am in victim or victor mode that I am reacting to the universe. When I am reacting I am not free because a reaction is the act of repeating an old behavior pattern, a behavior pattern that is predictable and is triggered by the memory of a past experience. However, when I am embracing vehicle consciousness I am consciously responding to whatever is happening in each moment. By responding I am growing. By responding I am free.”
“The Art of Integration” is available as a free book download, along with his other teachings, at http://www.thepresenceportal.com/
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From: Richard
I hope you found the above interesting. Please let me know.
Many Blessings,
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Thanks for sharing this with us, Richard! I love this idea of a new arrangement with the Universe. As Michael Brown says it so well, we are really being called to grow up, mature, spiritually evolve into a higher consciousness where we are wide awake and aware of creating each moment as it is happening. No more of this living on auto-pilot or blaming someone or some thing for using a remote on us! It’s time to get off the fence and make our own wonderful, gorgeous, beautiful life happen!
Janice
Dear Richard
Thank you for sharing – this was so good to read. It reminds me of an event yesterday. I went to a cooking class with a friend – an hour and a half round trip to get there, interpreted the class part of the day for her (she doesnt speak the language here) and when we were all getting seated for lunch I was finishing up setting the table and was very surprised to see that she had just sat herself down with other people she didnt know and didnt bother saving a seat for me. In fact she didnt look my way, speak to me, nothing. And there was no tension nor reason to avoid me. While this was happening I was in both reactive and respoding mode. I knew that this was what life was presenting me and that I was meant to be seated at the little table, and that was fine. And at the same time I was irked by this snub and inappropriate behavior, and especially her acting as if this is normal. After the lunch she gave me a bogus reason of how it just wasnt possible to save a seat, etc.. (it really was bogus) I continue to be irked by this even though it was a gorgeous day in a gorgeous place and I am very lucky to have such experiences in my life – yet her behavior bugs me and is on ly mind more than the beauty of the day. Do you have any ideas of how I can stop letting things annoy me? I do it a lot and it is not good for me or anyone around me. I think it has something to do with feeling powerless and my value not being seen. I don’t think you wrote this to find solutions for us leaving comments, but I am putting this out there to see where it goes…
This speaks to my heart!
Living in the present without the garbage from the past is difficult though!
Blessings and Love,
dean
Janice – You are very welcome. And, of course, you are “right on”! Good to hear from you again!
Jill – Thanks. It is not really the behavior of this woman that is troubling you, she is simply a reflection of something that evoked a similar hurt in your past that you never fully integrated at the time. Go inside now and allow yourself to fully feel that hurt, be with it, and you may find that it finally shifts and releases.
Dean – Thanks. The only ‘garbage’ from the past are unintegrated feelings. See my comment to Jill, above.
Hello Richard,
So nice to hear from you again and that you are back in Oregon. I love this idea!It builds on the Celestine Prophecy’s idea that nothing is a coincidence. I am here on earth to learn about freedom and this opens up a whole new way of looking at life’s experience.
Kia ora Richard,
This article had an immediate resonance with me. As I commented to my friend who sent me this information I have long held these beliefs through the medium of human experience.
I am now working on accepting all these encounters with grace joy, rejoicing and gratitude!
Kind regards,
Arama.
Wednesday 11 February 2009: 9.32am
New Zealand.