I felt some tightness in my chest and pain in my solar plexus which was what made me stop and remember to trust the universe

Thank you, David!

Diane– I deeply appreciate your words: “. . . listening to each other silently, sharing at our own pace, able to look back at each other’s comments and just be present on our respective journeys.

Reading through this dialogue the next morning has created such a warm sensation in my chest and heart. I too felt the awkwardness of the approach of typing in previous chat sessions but I see now that a FP was just resisting the experience and wanting to fix it or control it somehow to meet my agenda. You all are so wonderful, so special to me. My intention is to see everyone as the soul that they are and I find this chat approach a good (and slower paced) tool to help me work on that. Especially being able to go back and deeply read each post and soak them all in. I just feel you all with me at this moment, I feel connected to each of you, and it feels good. My intention is to join you live on Sunday. Love Doug

The strong lp I referred to in the previous post is sharing knowledge. As a young boy, I used to teach different subjects to my peers as well as younger ones whenever they approached me. I started to like it much. As I grew up, it continued. After B S degree, couldn’t continue education due to financial reasons. Joined a college as an instructor. After 4 years, got M S, continued to teach for 7 years and then came to the U S for Ph D and postdoc, and became a faculty. I just love my students like anything and have always gone the extra miles to help them understand the material. To supplement the textbook I prepare a lot of materials if I feel the need to help them make connections and understand.

I will first share what happened just last week and how trusting the Universe played out. Last Tuesday I changed the order of the topics of presentation (on thermo in my p chem class) for some important reason . Before the next class on Thursday, I realized on Wednesday the consequence of the change I had made. What I used to illustrate in detail first using a different topic (reversible process in terms of work), I now had to illustrate using the current topic (reversible process in terms of heat). I had to do a lot of calculations, various graphs, etc. on Excel and share the results with the students on Thursday.

I feverishly worked outside of my other class hours on Wed. On Thurs morning woke up early, continued to work on the above. Around 5:30 the light went off unexpectedly. Continued to work, but the laptop had only a little charge left. Decided to go to my office (about 5 miles away from home), although didn’t know whether power would be there. Right when I drove to the end of the street and came to the main road, realized that the power went off only on our dead-end street. Continued to drive, not knowing whether there would be power in the office. It was there! Worked there, around 9 came home, got ready, went back and finished the work around 10:45 for the 11 am class.

To set up the projector, etc. I always go earlier to the class. That day the students were talking about some issues. Since those sounded like mine, I asked whether they wanted to hear my story, and narrated it.

The lecture went extremely well. It was a joy that I experienced. And, very unexpectedly the students happened to thank me very much for what I had done to help them under the given circumstances. As I didn’t expect it at all, I said ‘thank you for saying it’. Then, realizing what they said, I said ‘you are welcome’.

The next day (Friday) I was listening to Gary’s video on Trust released on June 15, 2013 as Module Two of the APLC program. Gary and Linda were describing what had happened before they came on air at a friend’s home that they were visiting on the eve of their granddaughter’s HS graduation. Very unexpectedly the fire alarm went off. The sound was “piercing”. Not the usual smoke detector, as it had been hard-wired into the house’s electrical system. Without re-acting to it, without allowing the fp of anxiety to control them, they responded to the unexpected situation by trusting the Universe, and figured a way to fix it. There they were in a quiet environment speaking to us!

When I heard Gary narrate the above, my experience on the day before flashed through and my trust in the Universe grew further. It is a real blessing to be Gary’s student.