“Hi Sundar, I would love to hear how creating authentic power has changed your life. Would you share some examples about how you’ve challenged frightened parts. I appreciate the reminder that the Universe creates opportunities all the time for me to grow spiritually. … Look forward to hearing from you. Love, Pam”

Hi Pam, I am really (rather extremely) joyful today because I think the Universe created two amazing opportunities today for me with respect to two close relations of mine, actually rather three because it in turn has an effect with respect to my closest relation, my wife. Those two relations happened to be on the phone with me this morning one after the other.

I had left the creation of such opportunities to my soul, my wife’s soul and the other concerned souls whenever they felt it to be appropriate. I had no idea if or when such an opportunity might arise. It did occur soon and I am very joyful.

It all happens to be a real long story and it seems to me on second thought that it would end up covering a lot of space here, although the other day I posted that I would share. So, probably I should not go into the details.

However, it all has to do with two predominant fps’ of mine. One of them is easy to identify and it is shouting in anger. The other is relatively harder to identify and describe, but it has to do with my expecting or wanting my relatives to be logical in their approaches. I assume the corresponding fp turns out to be something like superiority. The latter fp initially caused a big scene during my trip to visit the relatives in 2002 with my wife and two children, which in turn led to my exhibiting the former also.

As is characteristic of any fp, I was only blaming others for everything. No doubt, I was driving the relations way away from me.

Gary’s teachings helped me address the first fp, shouting in anger. I made the commitment to challenge it. The Universe offered me opportunities after opportunities and I gradually worked on it. It has been quite a few years now since I shouted in anger. I am committed to keeping it that way.

The second fp was hard to recognize, but slowly I was able to. I made the commitment to challenge it also. I apologized to the individuals concerned for my allowing both fps’ to control me. Opportunities have been coming up one after another for me to develop a closer relationship with all those whom I was driving far away from me. The number of such relationships is considerable. This morning’s conversations were with two of them.

All this has allowed a closer and closer relationship to develop between me and my wife. Actually, I notice a bigger change in her today – a very important reason for my joy.

With love and trust,
Sundar

Steph, Pam and Sundar, I so appreciate reading your posts, with the examples of creating from fear or from love. The “impromptu” situation you described, Steph, reminds me of how unconscious my fps are when I don’t remember my intention to create authentic power. I go into automatic fp mode and say fp words without thinking for even a split second. Bringing myself to awareness at every moment is a primary goal for me. I mentioned my daughter earlier. Well, our estrangement for over a year happened because of fps in both of us. For this past year I thought I was cultivating a loving perspective toward her, yet at the same time I/fps felt there was an injustice in this situation. In other words, I indulged victim fps. Now I have just seen her again in the most loving circumstances. We promised each other never to allow misunderstandings to happen again. We will talk instead of closing ourselves off. I am responsible for what I experienced over this past year. I could have communicated with my daughter with the intention to connect, and I didn’t, preferring to indulge my victim fps. How clear it all is now!

Pam, your sharing is very supportive to me, reminding me that creating authentic power is a work of every moment.

Sundar, thank you for writing the essential steps to creating authentic power. I greatly appreciate it. I am also glad for you that you have found a new way of relating with loved ones.

With love to all, Catherine

Agreed, I have enjoyed and been enriched by the sharing in this community. I had fp about the community board but now know its value in my spiritual growth. Thanks eberyone

The title of this thread says it all. This is exciting work! Although it is so painful at times, it feel so good to be in those moments and be thankful for the gift that universe is providing. Sundar, I completely relate to the experience you just shared of having instant feedback from the universe regarding the intention I bring forward. I see this in myself and in my spiritual partners. For me this resonates in the concept of karma, what we put out there comes back to us, in this lifetime or another. I like to think of all of us working away on our own lives, creating loving energy karma and how that will change generations to come. That is exciting! Thank you everyone for sharing. With love, Ame-Lia

Hi Steph, Good to share this conversation with you. Have you read Heart of the Soul? I’m assuming you’ve read Seat of the Soul but I don’t know that for sure. Becoming emotionally aware and making responsible choices are at the “heart” of creating authentic power for me. It does take practice, but the more I do it, the more likely I am to make the responsible choice. It doesn’t mean that my fp thoughts don’t still try to get their way, it’s that I am more aware of them, and the consequences of indulging them. I do my best to make a more loving choice in the moment of being tempted by my fp. I set my intention to act from the most loving place that I can in that moment. I also ask for support from spiritual partners, physical and non physical. Happy Practicing!!! Would love to hear more from you. With Love, Pam

Stephanie,

You asked: “is the universe giving me this opportunity to work on it?” According to Gary’s amazing theory, the Universe is ALWAYS, namely every moment of our life in this Earth school, giving each of us opportunities to discover and challenge our fp’s and discover and nourish our lp’s. There seems to be no doubt about it at all. However, at the same time, it appears to be our own responsibility, in this Grand Design, to identify correctly whether it is an fp that needs to be challenged or an lp that needs to be nourished in the given opportunity, and then to identify correctly what exactly the fp or the lp in question is. That seems to be the name of the game and we are required to face that challenge all the time and come out successfully. (Otherwise, as we can obviously see, the game would be a very simple one to win easily, with no thrill in it! It could not prolong lifetime after lifetime in certain cases!!) The good news though is that the Universe patiently keeps giving us opportunities even if we keep failing in the process. There is NEVER a punishment aspect on the part of the Universe; Its intention is always to aid us in our spiritual growth of discovering, challenging and changing our fp’s and discovering and nourishing our lp’s.

You also asked: “And I guess with practice it gets easier?” Definitely. That is the fundamental idea of the Universe compassionately and wisely continuing to give us opportunities after opportunities to help us in the process. The Grand Design is not for us to keep facing FOREVER the pain as a result of our fp’s. (The game would probably be meaningless then!) We can be confident that it is indeed possible to totally overcome the fp in question (and nourish the lp in question); the fp will be dead once we take enough efforts. Of course, we have no idea what constitutes ‘enough’. The Universe knows it and what is expected of us is simply to move forward with taking effort after effort, keeping full trust in the Universe. Optimism is entirely meaningful here and is indeed needed on our part to move on willingly with determinism.

You wrote: “I have been trying to do this for three days now and have not been able to get the words out of my mouth because I haven’t felt like i’m able to come from a LP.” That indeed requires a very deep analysis on your part. That is the challenge of emotional awareness and making responsible choice, an important component of this game we are in. Whatever choice you make, even if without actually knowing whether it is something controlled by fp or by lp, it is the nature of the result that automatically accompanies your choice that is an indicator (from the Universe) of the nature of the choice made. If the result is painful, the choice was controlled by fp; on the other hand, if the result is joyful, the choice was controlled by lp, as per the Universal law of cause and effect. It is Earth school we are in and the name of the game is learning, learning and learning.

With love and trust,
Sundar