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Students have heard me say it repeatedly: “What we want also wants something of us.”
One of the main reasons that the New Age approach to consciousness-as-cause fails is that it overlooks the profound truth that we do not create out of what we want, what we visualize, what we affirm, but out of who we are.
It is one thing to want something; it may be quite another to be willing to live up to it.
And so, in Field practice, we begin by admitting whether or not we’re willing to be what the new identity requires.
To imagine that one can enjoy abundant supply while entertaining all manner of belief in lack is pure fantasy.
To think that one can conjure the perfect partner through this technique or that while yet being unwilling to be the perfect partner—that is a formula for disappointment.
So, we look away from manifestation.
We take our hands off it, as it were, and turn our attention solely to the question of identity, for out of the answer to this question issues the reality within which we find ourselves.
When we talk about the creative power of consciousness, of intention, of identity, we’re talking about our willingness to inhabit the identity that corresponds to the desired fulfillment.
It is, then, never about “stuff,” but solely about self.
Furthermore, to amount to anything, to move the levers of nonlocality, this willingness must be unconditional, wholehearted, undertaken for its own sake, and a requirement.
Along these lines, we say, “You can have anything you want, the moment you’re no longer willing to settle for less.”
So, for example, I can be in a loving, generous, deeply fulfilling relationship, but only by being willing to live up to the same standard by which I want to be treated, and only by being unwilling to accept lesser relationships.
It is axiomatic in Field practice, when we find ourselves “bilocated,” or facing contradictory versions of self, that “either version will cost us the other.”
And so, we have a choice to make. Field training allows us to make that choice deliberately, wittingly, consciously, with resolve—rather than unwittingly, out of habit, prompted by unexamined assumptions or old payoffs we’ve outgrown.
More than anything else, Field training presents a path through which we may become more deliberately the best version of self that we can imagine.
The promise of such alignment, as we call it, is rich beyond what we may have imagined.
Is it any wonder, that such a prize would only be offered to those who are willing to take it on as a requirement?
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note to self: ... relax and breathe
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