Because I have a human brain, it is so easy to see my day as one obstacle after another. There is something very natural for me to see time as littered with a series of challenges to be met and overcome. Yesterday there was the line of on-coming traffic that kept me from making a left turn.
There were the two people in front of me at Target who kept me from quickly advancing through the check-out. There was the son whose casual approach to time kept us from leaving when we had planned. An unusually chilly day kept me from working in my garden. One obstacle after another.
Actually, this was a rather typical day. It is almost a reflex response to resist what is in front of me, what seems to impede me. I am confronted with what is there, and I am challenged to sort it out. Sometimes it seems that practically every moment is an invitation to yield or confront what is in front of me.
I am learning how to yield more often. When I do yield, I step into the cosmic forces, the convergence of causes that set up this obstacle. If I can simply become aware of he obstacle, I step into all the forces that seem to confront me, and I become part of them.
Aligning with the converging forces that seem to present an obstacle doesn’t mean that I opt out, that I do not choose to move in one direction or another. It may even mean that I change the direction of the forces, but from the inside. What has changed is how I internally align or resist the forces, and I am learning how to become part of them. They also then become part of me.
By not resisting the forces of the universe, by not regarding events as obstacles, I allow myself to change and and transform. Then I can reshape the obstacle. For me, it is all a matter of what goes on inside of me, not so much what I do on the outside.
I choose to be satisfied in what stands before me, even if it appears to be an obstacle. It presents as an obstacle only if I resist. It is an obstacle only if I am dis-satisfied.
I yield, I do not resist, I engage. I become part of what had before been a mere obstacle.