Have you heard the term “what you resist, persists”? Have you had something unpleasant happen repeatedly in your life and it just won’t go away? No matter how much you try? If you’d like relief, the Avatar tools will help.
Since I took the Avatar Course, people often ask me if my life is now without struggle. Well, I can say that life is much easier and I can also say that life lessons are still here for me to explore. The difference is I don’t get into big drama scenes and force my body to experience the added stress that comes with them. It also takes a lot less time to understand the message and move on. The times I’d resist something in my life I’d imagine it was all “out there.” Isn’t that the way a problem often seems? With a very proper finger pointing “out there”? Now, if it’s in my world, I wonder why and go exploring. The good news is when I understand it, I’m able to let it go and deliberately create what I prefer.
My latest gift of understanding came in the form of a dog; a neighbor’s two-year-old pup with white hair on her tummy and floppy ears. She barked Monday through Friday from 7:45 am until 4 pm. What a gift! I cringed every morning at the first bark and yes, I felt resistance to the whole experience. It was a stretch for me to think that a dog left alone on a small, cold concrete slab surrounded by wire fencing had anything to do with me. What could the lesson be? The barking was annoying. Talking with the neighbors didn’t solve the problem, so I started sending the dog all the good thoughts I could muster. I turned to the solace of earplugs and alternated it with music to drown out the barking. One day I decided to stop resisting it and just be with it. I sat out on my deck and listened to the rhythmic barking that came in threes. Arph, Arph, Arph. Over and over. Arph, arph, arph. I felt what it was like to be the dog and in my mind I no longer heard the arph, arph, arph, but now the arph, arph, arph turned into I want out. I want out. That’s probably no big surprise to you. It wasn’t to me either. But when the rhythm changed to 2 barks I just heard I want over and over. A demanding kind of I want. I started thinking about all the pain that wanting has caused me in my life. A constant desire that never seemed satisfied. Just about the time I had that realization the rhythm of two barks turned into a solitary bark followed by silence. After a while there was another solitary bark. And when I heard this I discovered the message had gone from I want out, To I want, and now it was just a plain and simple I. I thought about the famous I disease when we think mainly about our selves and our needs. Getting trapped in the ego can be a lonely place. A rush of sadness came over me as I continued listening to the caged dog and her solitary bark. But the sadness wasn’t just for the dog. It was for all of humanity. I thought about the times I’ve felt separate and alone. I thought about one of my friends who just bought a security system for his house and now, how he locks himself in tight when he gets home. I thought about the boundaries we’ve created as nations.
Albert Einstein said, “A human being is part of the whole called by us “Universe”…a part limited in time and space. He experiences his thoughts and feelings as separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his own consciousness. This delusion is a kind of a prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
It’s a big task that begins in our own back yard and expands out to all of humanity. As Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar materials said in a commencement address at a Master Course in France, “You work toward the integration that will permit the discreation of every border, every definition of race, every jail and every lock. You work toward an enlightened planetary civilization.”
We play a big game. If you feel like you’d enjoy this kind of freedom I invite you to join us at the next Avatar Course. Your piece of the puzzle is important. There’s nothing to lose but unhealthy resistance. What you have to gain is a world of compassion and beauty.
Pamela “Z” Ziemann lives in Seattle, WA.
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