One of the main reasons most folks turn to spirituality or religion is to help them make sense of their everyday lives. Folks with well defined sacred texts have it easy. Clearly laid out outlines on how to deal with individual circumstances that might come up day to day. Along with that, a lot of folks have hundreds of years of well documented scholarship into making sense of said sacred texts. Not for us spiritual wanderers. We get to come up with our own ways of dealing with lifes challenges, though looking towards the spiritual scholarship in the great reilgions of the world is a fantastic place to start. They are all pointing towards the same truths. Along with taking tips from Mohammed and Jesus, I have come up with my own system of coping.
You know all those dream books that you have cluttering up your shelf? The ones about symbollism and making sense of seriously strange nocturnal fairy tales? Well, I like to apply these things to my regular daily life.
Take for example one of my closest friends. I won’t go to far into her particular situation, but let’s just say she had a stream of seriously bad luck. Her car was broken into, she had an infestation of all sorts of insects (including bed bugs! Eep!), she had other personal property messed with and stolen. Coincidentally, she was also going through a rough patch with her signifigant other, in which their relationship had taken on a third party, namely the ex. Not her ex, her SO’s ex. Her SO’s great, and there weren’t any shenannigans, but the whole situation was weighing heavily on my friend’s relationship. Combined with all the weird bad luck (in the course of only a week or two!), she was on the verge of having a meltdown.
She came to me for advice, and this is what I told her. “It seems like you are investing so much emotionally in this intruder in your relationship, that you are manifesting intrusions in other aspects of your life. Literally.”
She was a little taken aback. While she came to me just to vent, she’s also interested in my weird way of seeing things, so I’d like to think she was also looking for a unique perspective.
I told her about how you could look at all the bad luck just like it were a dream, if it were a dream, what would it mean to you? How would you interpret it? What would you learn if you looked at it symbolically. I explained to her that all the bad luck she was having had the common denominator of being intruded, and being vulnerable. I reminded her that for months she had been obsessing over her SO’s ex, who would not let her go, and that all the themes of her past conversations with me on the topic were all about feeling like there was an outisde force threatening her security in her relationship.
It was like a little lightbulb went off in her head. I advised her to have a nice long chat with her SO about the situation with the ex, and really make it plain that it was time to cut ties. She did, and the SO listened. And the various intrusions on other areas of her life stopped.
That is the power that manifestation can have. You don’t have to be super spiritual to manifest. I see a lot of my super scientific friends manifesting things all the time that they can’t control or make sense of. Some folks are just great at it even if they don’t believe in the concept. If you do believe in the idea of manifesting, you can steer it to accomplish your goals, and prevent it from causing added stressors in your already stressful life.
Making sense of what is going on, and looking at things symbolically, can often help to re-wire these negative manifestations towards things that are more positive.
I’m pleased to report that they are still in a happy relationship, and that the ex has not been mentioned in months.
the Good Heretic 