How Do We Grow the Power To Create?
How do we create and receive — make real the fantasy of a fountain of wishes? How do we feel powerful when thinking of desires that just ‘won’t show’, and perhaps haven’t shown for a really long time?
Abraham say, “It’s as easy to create a castle as a button.” They say — appreciate the buttons, see their success on a par with any castle we might desire. That’s tough when you’re facing huge contrast.
‘Show yourself you can create little things… Like blue glass and butterflies…’ I heard them advise as they spoke with one in despair.
But I don’t want blue glass and butterflies! I seethed at the time, grappling with another hopeless day…
This castle-button claim frustrated me when I lived in an attitude of need. Viewing myself as powerless, whatever came to me was ‘luck’, ‘chance’ and fleeting; it certainly wasn’t proof of a power I could harness.
If anything, success made me feel less powerful to create. The better things got… the further I could fall. Classic ‘Imposter Syndrome’…
“When I’ve succeeded at something and received recognition for my accomplishments, I have doubts that I can keep repeating that success.” — Pauline Rose Clance, PhD (№15, Clance Imposter Phenomenon Scale)
When we feel lacking, no button plugs the deficit; no castle can be clung to — no achievement is secure. Success feels fraudulent and can go in an instant. We live in constant fear of that moment…
Come Home to ‘No Need’ and buttons delight you…
Practising ‘No Need’ — being fully at Home, now — is transforming my castle-button paradigm. Suddenly I’m noticing more and more buttons and I’m loving them completely.
My days are literally showered with buttons — I’m noticing I have no tomatoes for my salad… I relax into ‘No Need’ and celebrate other red items in my bowl… The bowl is still building on my worktop as a neighbour knocks with a bag of home-grown tomatoes… Seriously! That was four days ago.
Reminding yourself that there is nothing you need in this moment now relaxes you to appreciate the buttons… for the joy… for the joy… for the joy… The speed and brilliance of the universe will take your breath away...
As you appreciate buttons, more buttons come. LoA makes it so…
Three blessed buttons:
Button #1: Blue suede shoes!
A pair of blue sandals to suit an outfit for an occasion was a focus a few weeks back.
Still finding my way financially after leaving salaried employment, I didn’t want to spend much — and I love secondhand shopping…
A happy impulse the very next morning took me to the charity shops in a nearby town.
It felt like delight. It would be lovely to find beautiful blue sandals.
It was lovelier still to know I didn’t need them.
In the second shop I tried, there was the most beautiful pair of navy suede sandals, the perfect size, barely worn, and of a highly prized make I’d never heard of (clueless about named brands).
They retail at £100. I got mine for £5!
These sandals are the most delightful, gorgeous, comfortable, beautiful sandals I have EVER owned! I adore them! To me, they are the bliss of alignment’s sweet promptings…
Button #2: Black booty!
In slight contrast… rainy season has begun and I wanted to be able to slip on a pair of black leather boots to walk, whatever the weather, in comfort as well as style.
I had a pair of boots. They were waterproof… smart… but the small heels jarred my hips. (I have to wear flatties — apparently I have the gait of a bare-foot runner! Get me!)
Hmmm. I wanted a pair of comfortable black boots. In reality, I was thinking, I really neeeed them. (I can hear myself wheedling, like a hungry herring gull chick!)
I brought myself back to the ‘No Need’ of Now. Relaxed. Remembered my wholeness…
Aha!
I remembered an older pair of boots, tucked at the back of my wardrobe! Why hadn’t I been using them? Genius! They were smart and comfortable. Yes, YES!
I discovered why I’d abandoned them the first time it rained. So NOT waterproof…
Hmmm. Worked a little more with not neeeeeeding those boots!
I dug a little deeper… What’s this boot-needing really about? As I sat with the emotions of this tiny button-creating effort, it became clear…
This button of a boot-need was actually hooking up powerlessness — wet feet triggered a fear of not being having what I needed to survive… We are such primal beings underneath all the bluster!
I welcomed the powerlessness, loved the fear, realised the power and confidence they’d created as I used them to bring me back Home to ‘No Need’.
Then I popped, on an impulse, a couple of days later, to the charity shop round the corner. This tiny store was holding, just for me, one pair of slip-on black, leather boots, no heel, perfect size, another highly-prized brand I’d not heard of…
Another £5 purchase instead of retail £168! The most beautiful, comfortable, stylish and yes, waterproof boots I’ve ever owned!
Wow. YES!
What a lesson in alignment! The subtle differences between these two experiences showed me so much about need and its nuances. The sandals were a ‘Wow!’ But the boots brought benefit — I released more resistance with them.
Both were perfect button-creating experiences! It wasn’t that I’d done better with the sandals or worse with the boots.
Button #3: Sweet scent from my soulmate…
I indulged in the last of my favourite eau de toilette the other day… I’d been persuaded by Michael a few weeks back to enjoy the scent instead of ‘saving it for best’.
‘Ahhh… it’s delightful,’ we relished it together as it hung in the air and clung to my clothes… ‘Mmmm. Lovely!’
‘Well,’ I said to Beloved, ‘It would be lovely to have the money for more, or a bottle presented to us, wouldn’t it? But isn’t it lovely not to neeeeeeed that?’ He agreed.
Not two hours later, I received a cheque through the post — a tax rebate (can you believe it?)! It’ll neatly cover the cost of the cologne plus an anniversary treat for us this Thursday…
Ahhh the flow, the flow, the ocean of attraction… for the joy… only always for the joy! Buttons, yes — such sweet lovely buttons — and how I love each and every one!
What about the castles?
I know, you want to get to the castles. The mortgage, the relationship, the contract, the health and body beautiful...
Focusing on the buttons from a place of ‘No Need’ offers more than you might first imagine.
For one thing, buttons happen often when you’re playful and not neeeeding them. You won’t fail to be increasingly wowed by their timing and ingenuity…
Appreciating buttons brings JOY! The ultimate marker of success. There’s every bit as much joy in my divinely timed tomatoes as there is in landing a coaching contract worth thousands…
And…
The (easiest) pathway to your next castle is paved with buttons.
Follow the buttons, appreciate them from ‘No Need’, measure only the joy. Then appreciate them some more.
This builds confidence. A sense of being blessed. Living a charmed life. Being adored by the universe. Sandals, boots and sweet scents… these ‘little’ synchronicities build belief in the possibilities of a life lived more magically.
As evidence gathers of intelligence beyond our reckoning, it becomes easier to relax and allow ourselves to trust. Gradually, our view elevates. We begin to see the power we have always had, actually, but dismissed in the past as fluke or dependence.
The castles of the past begin to declare themselves as the magnificent creations they truly were and are. We give ourselves credit for our timing and intuitions. The more we appreciate our alignments of the past, the more we open up to the power in our future.
I’ll share some castles with you next time. For now, enjoy the pathway paved with sweet, bright buttons.
Notice them. Appreciate them. Follow their trail.
Milk them for the joy, the joy, the joy...
Your creative power will build, in time.
But you won’t neeeeed it to. You’ll be having too much fun!
Acknowledgement: My blogs, my coaching and my life are founded on many wondrous teachings, most particularly those of Abraham-Hicks.