Sunday, May 1, 2005

Today’s message is from the Quado Archives, first published on January 22, 2001

Good things come to you when you do not push.  When you push too hard, you push away exactly the things you wish to attract in your life.  If you try too hard, pushing and creating great turmoil in the energy around you, patterns do not have a chance to settle in, the energy does not have a chance to fall into place, and you disrupt and prevent exactly what you are trying to attract.  The same is true with fear.  It sends up a field of chaos, preventing the calm entry of ordered fulfillment and manifestation.

Your desires are like wild animals in the forest.  You must lay out the treats which will attract them. And then you must breathe deeply, make yourself calm and patient, blend in with the forest, and wait for them to come to you.

And how do you lay out the treats, what treats are these animals looking for?

Greatest among these is readiness.  If you will spend your energies in readiness, but without pushing, then this will attract the wild animals of your dreams.

Readiness means having the skills built up which will allow you to shine when opportunity knocks.  Readiness means a positive mental attitude which will make you attractive to the little animals who are drawing near.  Readiness means that if the opportunity comes near, you will be able to respond fully, your clothes pressed and your bags packed, your talents honed, your finances in order, your demo tape in your pocket.  This is readiness.

But there is an enormous difference between readiness and anxiety.  Do not be anxious.  Relax and have faith.  Yes, faith.  Faith that if you make yourself ready, and if you project pictures of what you wish to have happen, and then, if you relax and go down into the place where the dreams are released into the field of energy, go down there and send your pictures out in to the world, have faith that this will have an effect.  This combination of the released energy and the readiness is very powerful.

But even here, with this power, you must still exercise patience.  You must realize that the universe delivers in serendipitous ways, and that what may be the greatest opportunity of all will not necessarily appear to be such at its first appearance.  And so, you must be alert, alert and aware, looking for the odd little hints, the impulses, the flashes of coincidence. These are the signals that your energetic projections are having an effect.  Follow these little hints and impulses, and do not concern yourself if some appear to come to a dead end.  It may be a dead end, or it may be that something else is being set up for a more distant event.

The state of mind to be in is one of enjoyment, wonder, exploration.  Enjoy the process of making your life unfold in wonder before you.  Enjoy the process of influencing your life in this way, instead of through direct pushing.

Yes, you must still do the things that you would normally do, like sending out the resume, making the phone calls.  But do them in a relaxed state, looking forward to good things to come.  Do not be concerned if the resume goes astray and ends up on the desk of someone less important than you had hoped; this may be exactly the opportunity you are seeking, the person who will open the door which will lead to the greatest fulfillment of your desires.

Be open to all.  Be willing to try new things.  Relax and breathe.  Lay out your treats, relax and breathe, and let the world come to you.

Do not chase after; do not pursue.  Let it all come to you.