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Stop, Look, and Listen – Then What?

I am participating in a 28 Day Shift program called The 28 Day Shift To Wealth, by Beca Lewis. It is a wonderful program for me; because I love the daily bite of perception Shifting that keeps me on track for the rest of the day. Five or ten minutes of pushing the “reset switch” on my point of view, and I have a better chance of staying in the proper state of mind for the rest of the day.

More than five or ten minutes, every day, my attention starts to wander. Sundays are my day for hours and hours of Shifting, luxuriating in the Wonder of it all. Hence, the Sunday Morning Sermon. (I digress – my apologies. Back to the point.)

I am currently on Day Ten. Day Ten focuses on Angel Ideas. Day Ten focuses on how to tell the difference between Angel Ideas and thoughts. Here is what I noticed this morning during my reading.
We have a tool that Del and Beca taught us in The Shift – it is called POL. Pause, Observe, Listen. Rather like Stop, Look, and Listen that Dick and Jane taught us as children (well, some of us, anyway! I hear Dick and Jane have been replaced in kindergarten and 1st grade.)

So here’s the deal – what if we walk up the sidewalk to the street crossing and Stop, Look, and Listen? What if we stand there and Stop, Look, and Listen? What if we stay there? How does that work? Yes, we have paid attention. Yes, we have observed. Yes, we have listened for oncoming traffic. Well, once we pause, look both ways, and listen for oncoming traffic, aren’t we supposed to do something with that? As in, cross the street safely? Wasn’t that the purpose of that particular instance of Stop, Look, and Listen?

There is an additional word at the end of POL and Stop, Look, and Listen. ACT. Angel Ideas, and the A in WEALTH, stand for Action. In the assignment, Beca says, “…You are also writing how you feel about each Angel Idea or thought…” That’s the key, I think. The Action required is to observe how you feel about each Angel Idea or thought, which will identify which one it is, and which will Allow you to follow through with the appropriate Action. Or not. The key, for me, is how I feel about that idea or thought.

Which means, I had an idea; I wasn’t sure whether it was an Angel Idea or a thought; I Paused, Observed how I felt about that idea, I Listened for my knee jerk reaction, and realized that it is an Angel Idea, and I took Action by writing about it!

If you are interested in reading The 28 Day Shift to Wealth, go here.

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Turning Things To Thoughts

I have often grappled with the concept of misperception. I always feel like I’ve done something wrong! In the Spiritual sense, I guess I have, but I don’t like to do “wrong,” so it’s an uncomfortable place for me to be.

This morning, I found a different way to look at the idea of person, place and thing. It isn’t comfortable, but it’s less uncomfortable than walking around feeling like my old view of “sinner.”

We see things as person, place, and thing in the human view because that’s the way we can understand it. Remember Bruce Almighty? He had a heckuva time keeping up with that omnipresent thing!

Well, here’s how I framed it so my human point of view could understand it a little better.

Example – take the quality of Order. I give up the old habit of disorder, and Choose Order. Which reflects itself through me as being orderly, neat, clear in my choice of words and communication, whatever. Perhaps it’s another person who has the habit of disorder that shows me my old habit of disorder.

As I focus on Order, that “person” starts to be more orderly, because that “person” is only displaying what I think of him or her, and I think of him or her as Order.

Perhaps that person does NOT start reflecting Order to me. That person gets angry and leaves.

Either way, my point of view starts to reflect Order rather than disorder.

Am I happy that the “person” started to show Order? Yes, thrilled!

Did I make that “person” clean up his or her act? Absolutely not.

Am I unhappy that the “person” got angry and left? Yes, I’m sure I am, because I Love that person (doesn’t matter whether I know them or not, in my Spiritual sense, I know only Love.)

However, I must let them go, if that’s what they choose to do. The quality of Order is natural and habitual and Loving in my Life. And I know that I am not alone as a result of them leaving. The only thing that left was the perception of disorder.

Made it a little easier to understand the perception/misperception concept, and the idea of detaching from the outcome.

Hope it helps you, too!