Changing Neighborhoods

Many years ago, Ramtha gave a teaching about changing neighborhoods, something he wanted us all to do. My first thought was that he wanted me to move out of my house and town, so I had many months of turmoil, wondering where he wanted me to be. It was years later when I fully understood the teaching. He had said that a new neighborhood was different than just moving the furniture around.

Have you ever become aware that your life is chaotic? Nothing is going right for you. There is so much going on that you feel you don't have time to breathe. You want out, but you don't even know what that means. I have been there, and my solution, or so I thought, was to change my outer circumstances, kind of like moving the furniture around. I soon came to realize that it was a band aid approach. It helped for a short while, but didn't solve the problem. My problems followed me everywhere. Why? Because I learned through experience, that they had nothing to do with what seemed to be happening in my life and everything to do with what was going on in my mind. Changing neighborhoods meant changing my mind. I noticed when I changed my mind, my outer circumstances changed too. It was as if changing my mind opened the door to an inner guidance that wasn't available to me before because I didn't leave a space for it to be there.

Changing my outer circumstances without changing the thought that made them could never work. When I realized this, I began to pay more attention to what I was thinking not what I was doing. I stood guard on the doorway of my mind and let in no thought that I didn't want to out manifest. It was the journey and it became my passion. Not only that, it worked, and continues to work in my life.

There was guidance along the way, props that helped me. Books, workshops, meditation etc. Ekhart Tolle and The Power of Now was a good book at that time. Candle focus was another. Walking meditation was one of my favorites holding the focus on one thing as I walked. This became my work, the work I knew I was here for, and it was this work that began to wake me up to the truth. That all of my chaos was self made and could be changed simply by changing my mind. Nobody could do it for me, I had to want it more than anything else.

Now I am reaping the rewards of my past efforts, I continue to change neighborhoods and my life is filled with more love, more joy and most of all more peace.