I started this week by talking about power. I wanted you to understand that you have all of it and that no one can take it from you. You are the only one who can give your power away.
I also gave examples and will continue to give examples of how you give it away, the majority of the time. Examples could be your spouse, boss, children, family members, or the rude person at the store. I hope that you walk away from the blame game and or judgment of the situation that is floating in your head and refocus on the present.
How do you want to practice being the person you were born to be? How do you want to cultivate the power you already own? That's what I aim to accomplish in this blog.
As you can see by my title, today's exercise will include one of Hanna Barbera characters, involving the Scooby-Doo gang. it is important to note that both William Hanna and Joseph Barbera both attended college but neither finished with degrees. They worked odd jobs until they started illustrating for different companies in the 1930s and 40s. They met when they were working for MGM and collaborated on the very successful Tom and Jerry Cartoons. This was the harbinger for their amazing partnership that helped create some of the most memorable cartoons of the 20th century. These young enteropneusts created cartoon icons like the Flintstones, Huckleberry Hound, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, and my favorite, Scooby-Doo.
Now, Let's take the Scooby-Doo gang and put them in one of the famous mysteries. It usually starts out the same every week. The gang is inheriting money and has to stay in a creepy old mansion for one night to receive a financial reward. The kids have to stay in this mansion overnight and they are faced with all kinds of spooky ghosts and scary spirits. They are constantly running from these ghosts and trying to avoid them at all costs. But they stay in the mansion because they want that reward.
By morning they are exhausted and almost defeated but they persist and find clues that lead them to the facts of what is happening to them. Once the daylight comes they follow the clues that lead them to the ghost or specter. Ultimately the ghost is just Mr. Jenkins, a man trying to deceive them and scare them away. He knows he could have gotten away with stealing the money if it wasn't for those darn pesky kids.
Now let's use the creepy mansion metaphor as your job, relationship, or health and the kids as your consciousness.
When you look at your circumstance and say, I hate this and I want to get out of "it" or I want "it" to go away. This is judgment. Remember the rice experiment I told you about a few blogs ago? Hate or judgment is very toxic to you. The more you focus on it the more it stays and persists.
The money or reward the kids (conscious) are going to receive is the thing that you are sticking around for. So it could be, money, love, acceptance, peace, or just a clean bill of health.
The ghost or spirits are the energies that are trying to get your attention. They look and feel uncomfortable but they're ultimately just there to draw your attention. But, due to your programming, you keep running away until that one day where you get a clue that there is more. That clue helps you to keep going and investigate what is happening to you. This leads you to daylight or information. The information is less scary than you originally thought. All of a sudden you have the confidence to face your fear and pull the mask off the monster.
The monster in this case is Mr. Jenkins, but he can be replaced with your personal monster, job, money, family, partnerships, or health. It is just the way the universe is trying to get your attention. And if it takes you one night in the spooky mansion or a lifetime, it doesn't matter. There is no linear time in the Universe and you came here to go on this mystery tour anyway. The timing is up to you.
Remember you have the power always. How do you want to use it?