Asked and Answered by the Universe
Lyman Reed
August 13th, 2007
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Here’s a little story that you might find interesting.
Yesterday morning, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I didn’t want to go to work, I didn’t want to take out the dog, I didn’t want to do… anything. I picked a fight with my wife about money and bills (it’s an easy subject when I’m itching for a confrontation), made her take the dog out, and got off to work about a half hour late.
I was definitely not going with the flow.
After being at work for a bit, I recognized that I didn’t want to fight with my wife. So I called her to apologize… and ended up picking a fight AGAIN… AGAIN about the money and the bills! Of course, it was all her fault (that’s sarcasm now, but how I felt yesterday).
After that one, I headed outdoors and sat down in the sun for a bit. I remembered how Abraham talks about what we are like when we are in Step One - we are banging around with negativity, and that is how we ask.
There are three steps to the Creative Process: Step One, you don’t have to worry about; contrast makes you take that step. Contrast causes you to desire or focus, or prefer. Step Two, not your work, anyway. Source and all of the resources of Source answer your request. That’s that vibrational alignment. That’s that one point of vibrational relativity that happens instantaneously.
So, your only work is Step Three. And Step Three is: Can I find a thought right now that feels a little better than the thought I’ve been thinking? That’s all Step Three is. Finding a thought that causes me to feel a vibration (or a feeling) of relief. So, there is allowing of what I want, or disallowing of what I want. There is allowing of what I want, or resisting what I want. You are either practicing the art of allowing, or the art of resisting. When you’re forking off toward things you want, you’re practicing the art of allowing. When you’re forking off to things you don’t want, you’re practicing the art of resistance. And every day, and every moment of your life experience is a perfect reflection of how you’ve been forking. (Good.)
Excerpted from Abraham-Hicks Workshop
G-7-30-05 — San Francisco, CA
retrieved from http://www.abraham-hicks.com/journal.php?eid=915
I recognized that I was in Step One. I asked myself just what it was that I was asking for.
1.) A harmonious, peaceful relationship with my wife.
2.) Enough money to pay the bills on time.
I worked with the affirmation I’ve been using, and added to it my desire for my relationship with my better half to be harmonious and peaceful.
I got myself centered.
When I walked back into the store, I heard a song start to play on the PA system…
I stopped dead in my tracks and listened… I couldn’t believe it…
It was Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield.
So?
That song has a special significance to me. While I’d heard it often, I never really listened to it until Vickie of Contemplate This used it as her pick for Hilda Carroll’s Songs That Make Your Heart Sing game. Vickie even made a mind movie using the song.
And I honestly don’t think I’ve ever heard the song playing in our store.
It was like the Universe was telling me that I was back on track.
I called my wife again and really apologized for my behavior. I didn’t pick another fight.
The rest of the day was fantastic: peaceful and productive, just the way I like it! 
Even if you discount the coincidence of that song coming on for the first time in the store right then, it’s still amazing how a couple of blog posts from a few months back could help me do such a complete about face when it comes to my attitude after such a rough morning.
It tells me that the best really is still unwritten.
| 3.2 |
Fairly sure that you don’t know how much I needed this reminder today. Thank you for bringing me around to where I need to be looking.
Hmmm, maybe you did - Thanks for caring and it is challenging but out of the contrast comes some mighty things in vibrational escrow. I am really to let it all in about now
Thanks for being a great person!
Thanks for your honesty Lyman. We all have times that we slip and would rather not share it. That’s a great song too, particularly relevant for personal development/spiritual heads.
Great post…
I can really relate.
I just started reading Contemplate This a few weeks ago so I had not seen the video…thank you for sharing it!
~Melba
I admire your honesty, Lyman. Your writing always speaks to me. I am so blessed to have stumbled into you at the forum.
You face the demon, ask for help, and in a blink… answers come. Isn’t is all so absolutely amazing!
Vickie - it’s pretty interesting, actually… I had no idea what was going on with you until this post was written and I started adding the links to it. Even more “coincidence”. Thank *you* for being a great person, and helping me through yesterday morning months before it happened.
Mark - everyone *does* slip, and I’ve come to a place where instead of seeing the slips as failures, they are just reminders of where I *don’t* want to be. And I hope that writing about my slips, while my life continues to improve, will show others that they don’t have to be perfect - they just have to have the willingness to be happier.
Melba - Welcome!
Contemplate This is one of my favorite blogs out there, and it’s cool to have one of Vickie’s readers here as well. Isn’t that mind movie awesome?! You’ve got a pretty neat blog too, if I do say so myself. 
I’ll have fun keeping an eye on that one.
Deborah - Hey there, Sprout Lady! You aren’t the only one who’s been blessed by our meeting. And when it comes to those demons - their bark is always worse than their bite. Always.
Thanks everyone for your comments. I really appreciate them!
In our daily frustrations, its easy to forget to be thankful for what we do have, isnt it. Sometimes, the reminders come in the most unlikely way, you just need to be receptive-as you were when you heard the song. Good for you!
Thanks for having a bad day and dealing with it–and being able to write so eloquently about it. It does me a lot of good to read about it. Thank you.
Mom
PS
The Holy Spirit got me the other day too.
Mom
Harveen - It sure can be! There is so much good in my life it’s almost shocking, but I really can lose sight of the forest because of the ugliness of some of the trees… and it’s usually the trees I’ve planted myself.
Mom - I’m glad it helped, and I’m glad you let it get to you as well!
Lyman, I love it when someone shares their true self and honest experiences! Thank you!
That song also happens to be one of MY favorites (it’s on my MySpace page, and I also listed it as one that makes my heart sing in Hilda’s blog tag). Universe was definitely speaking to you!
Good for you for hearing it. : )
Love & Miracles -
Jeannette
Wow, Jeannette, even more “coincidences”… Thanks for sharing that!
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