Reading the Circumstances of Your Life

At Creative Edge, we work with the assumption that life  is not a random collection of unrelated accidents, but is more like a story with a beginning, a middle and an end,. The events that make it up have a direction and an inner consistency What happens at the beginning of the story lays the foundation for what happens later. And, like a story, it unfolds for a reason, with a purpose in mind. In the end, it all makes sense.

In the story of your life, you are both character and author. As author you create circumstances that give your character opportunities to advance the plot in the direction you wish it to go. As character you have a role to play in the scene, but you also enjoy  free will and can refuse to play your part.

As long as you (as character) exercise your free will to ignore or decline what you are meant to be doing, the plot does not advance. While the author cannot force the character to accept a particular path, the author can ensure that the alternative routes are dead ends while similar opportunities to advance the plot keep opening up. If your plans never work out, if similar issues and circumstances keep resurfacing in your life, it is fair to assume that you have been rejecting opportunities to get on to the next chapter in your life.

You get on with your life when you (as character) realize what you (as author) are asking  yourself to do, and give in, when you learn that the reason you are given your free will is to surrender to your soul’s desire, when you learn that your pain and your suffering arise out of your resistance to doing what you are meant to be doing.

The implication is that you are not here just to do what you (as character) feel like doing. You are here to notice and respond to what you (as author) are asking of yourself. When you do respond, you will feel that enthusiasm, energy, excitement and fulfillment that comes from doing what you are meant to be doing.