7 Minute Clarity Talk: Surrendering to the Unit
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This post comes from my direct experience of working with the madness that is this unit I’m wearing—eight years after my first big awakening. You see, it has its own agenda. This Clarity Talk is about noticing that sometimes we just have to “surrender to the unit”, meaning that while I don’t want to say we don’t have any indirect influence in our lives (we certainly do–except when we don’t), sometimes our wishes are simply overruled.
Once our preferences have been overruled, we then have one choice: to bang our head against the wall–or not. This morning I noticed that I’ve been choosing the headbanging option. Are you familiar with this? It’s so funny to see how I’ve been cloudy about these teachings on Clarity. Oh, the irony!
I’m afraid this revelation is not very flattering, but I long ago made a pact with myself to air my shining ignorance publicly, and I’m sticking to that until I don’t. It’s at least a stab at humility, which is about the best I can do. At least it’s something.
In my heart, in my mind, it feels for all the world like I would love to be doing about 70% of what I’m doing, and have a piece of a normal life. I notice that’s not what’s happening. What I want actually has nothing to do with any of this, because I gave up on having any say when I decided that what I wanted more than anything else was to be awake and clear. I begged and I whined, and finally I said out loud to the Universe, “Okay, I give up. Whatever it takes, I’m in.”
Apparently being bound to this little rocket ship is the “whatever” it took. Today I said once again, “I’m in,” but not before I gave myself a flat head. So, come share in my latest bit of ignorance. It might do you good to watch this, and I’m certain it’s done me good to notice, record, and publish it.
How do I know it’s done me good? It stings, and when it comes to ego, stinging is a “good thing”, as Martha Stewart might chirp.
Fred Davis
June 11, 2014
