A few years ago I bought a car. It was the first car I had ever bought on my own and it was a really big deal for me. I had been in a very controlling marriage where I didn’t even drive except on rare occasions. I had moved to a nearby city and was finding my way around. I made little forays to different places and was quite proud of the fact that I was managing very nicely.
One day, I was returning home from a meeting, when my car died on a long stretch of farmland road. I called roadside assistance and they sent a tow truck to get my car to the dealership. While I was phoning the automobile club, I heard lots of sirens ahead. When the tow truck arrived and we headed for the dealership, we drove by a horrific accident. I realized that it could have been me involved in that accident if my car had not broken down. News reports said that two people had died and two others were seriously injured when their car was hit by a dump truck. The gift was that my car had broken down, possibly sparing me from a deadly accident. In this context, was it good or bad?
One of the most famous examples is the number of people who were late for work on 9/11. There were also a number of people off sick. What looks like it was bad, certainly wasn’t in those cases. Experiences like that can certainly force you to let go of a lot of the beliefs, concepts and illusions that drive us and keep us conditioned to the control of others. We realize that the driving force to get to work on time, to work even if we’re not feeling well and to stay late just to make sure all the work is done is really not the most important thing.
Even witnessing catastrophic events on the news, hammers home the message to be more real, more aware, more compassionate and more knowing about what is really important in your own life. When we view our lives through the eyes of those who try to chain us to their reality and all of the ego stuff, we realize there are lessons that try to draw us back to our greatest good, if only we will pay attention. It’s like the Universe is saying – you have a choice to do this or that – knowing that we don’t always see what is ultimately good or bad, instead it is neither.
The ego, which is the mind’s false sense of the identity of the self, is actually what does the judging of whether something is good or bad. The ego forms opinions and emotions that become frozen within itself. They become the unconscious stimulus to avoid what can be avoided and change the unchangeable past. The view that everything is a potential threat that must be thwarted by defense, attack, deceit, maneuvering and control to protect its perceived special and unique nature at all costs, is the automatic subconscious behavior. It is what has spoiled society and ruled the private and public world of its citizenry, corporations and governments. In the world, it is the epitome of the corporatocracy of greed, power, control and attack, sucking in as much money as it can without regard for anything or anyone. What the public views as bad, the corporation views as good. Your point of view matters little in the grand scheme of things. It is rather hard to take down a giant especially a rich one.
The world becomes a much brighter and cooperative place when you can let go of judgment and the good/bad thing. Everything flows in a natural and harmonious way. The flow of what is, becomes amazing. Unfortunately we are far too entertained to a greater degree by our judgments. We don’t always like what comes our way, but it is familiar enough not to change.
Jean Perrins is a former nurse and admitted health nut who writes health articles for a number of on-line and off-line sources. As an avid researcher, she knows how to squeeze every ounce of health in a body. To access more of Jean’s articles, go to http://www.drinkalkalineionizedwater.com.
