Raj Editorial - from A Way of Life Issue September 2009   |   Text View

I can actually feel myself evolving, can you? And I am doing nothing of myself, it is just happening to me and, for me. Yes, I certainly took some steps to make changes to the website and to the way we publish the Journal but even that was an outcome of circumstances and so obvious that we had no choice in the matter at all. It was certainly not a spontaneous action initiated by me. As nothing ever truly is.

As these days go by I am coming to fully appreciate that life - my life is unfolding on a course determined by great cosmic weaving and even though I may start out with a semblance of a plan or sometimes even a very definite plan - it really has little bearing on the outcome or where I find myself further down the track.

For example, take the adventure we have with Karuna Bali Foundation, it just emerged and took flight and has been beautifully soaring and unfolding for the past three years. Thanks to many of you - supporters and sponsors of the students at the College and other activities we are making a substantial impact on changing lives and none of that could be said to have been by our intent.

We certainly did not plan to become involved with LIVING VALUES EDUCATION - the international organization that KBF is now representing not just in Bali but now taking through schools to the other islands of Indonesia. Neither did Suz and I envisage that we would become personally involved with teaching LVE in Australia - that too just rolled on in. Even when I submitted a plan seeking approval for running workshops here I did not do so with any thought or idea that we would be asked to take over management of the organization in Australia. Now we are training others to take this program out to families, to businesses, to communities and into the education arena. Are you looking for some way of contributing to improving lives? Maybe you should talk to us, but first have a look at www.livingvalues.com.au and see if it appeals to you.

Anyway to continue evolving this editorial…I personally believe that the two most important factors in the Law of Attraction in terms of evolving are Gratitude for what we have and the Willingness to accept and allow whatever is presented to us. This may seem to be an opportunist perspective yet if, or when we resist and push away changes of direction and new possibilities and I love this expression, we are probably as my friend, Jayem says, 'slapping God in the face!". How does that feel?

Evolving - evolution comes at a price. The butterfly does not have it easy coming out from the chrysalis and not many of us are addicted to the 'adventure' of change. Most of us would far rather stick with the status quo and feel safe and in control of our lives or at least, in the false belief that we have some control - and how absurd that really is! Yet it is this change that propels us all to the next level, the next friendship, relationship, job, house, whatever. But like the butterfly we have to willingly enter with vulnerability into the 'apparent' chaos which change reflects.

My life has been a kaleidoscope of change and each one was, now in hindsight, just another step in my own evolution. In hindsight too, the steps are all so obvious yet at the time whether in relationship, my business or just unfolding circumstances it always seemed like stepping out into the unknown. I am so grateful that I never succumbed to the temptation to stop and cling to where I was at any moment. I remember one moment in time back in New Zealand when I owned a large yacht charter business which had fallen on bad times due to a share market collapse, the aging fleet desperately needed a new image and the concept of taking a yacht sailing in New Zealand waters needed to be promoted overseas.

My partner and I had a phone call, we chatted about what to do, Trevor offered to forgo the little company station wagon and use his motor bike, we both thought about how we could increase our already over extended mortgages. I asked how much he had left on his personal credit card and he said $600 - the same as I did. There was a three day workshop called, "Money and You" on that weekend in Auckland - the cost $595. We both agreed to blow the lot on that one weekend. On Monday evening as we walked away after three days of doing ridiculous things like standing in a circle holding hands, singing songs and playing games with one another - making barnyard noises to find our groups, playing at millionaires with paper money and other completely childish pursuits, which were a lot of fun I must admit, we realized we had blown it. Life as we knew it was clearly over.

Tuesday morning, the phone rang in my office and a friend asked to drop by. Ross came in and told presented me with his problem. He had been hired as New Zealand agent by a French Boat builder who was literally stuck with an over production problem in France of extremely well respected sailboats ranging from 32 - 44 ft. Ross, an America's Cup sailor challenge was to sell these boats in a market that already had a great boatbuilding reputation and detested anything French however, despite the challenges he had found buyers subject to being able to place their yachts in a charter fleet as a income earning business investment. We just happened to have the business that needed the new yachts. A joint venture was formed and with it a completely unexpected income stream that resolved all our financial problems, created a new fleet with immediate attractiveness to the overseas sailing enthusiast who recognized the designs and the locals loved them too.

The company took off on a whole new tack revitalized. And if I look back over subsequent circumstances that unfolded I can plot exactly how that seemingly non-aligned action has brought me to writing this editorial in a spiritual Journal and talking to people all over the world with a passion for God and willing to accept their own evolution. Amazing, and all did was to follow the prompts.

Now you could say that this had nothing to do with "Money and You", the dancing and singing and weekend of play, but I disagree. Something shifted at some point - it may have been in our willingness to take a chance, it may have been our gratitude, it may have been the Cosmic Weaver at play seeing how far we would allow ourselves to be lifted from that point of desperation. Whatever, I do know that was a major turning point in my life bringing me to where I am now. I see too the identical pattern emerging in the Living Values workshops we are now holding - I watch as we play similar games and sing silly songs - all letting the 'inner child' have some fun - and I see people's lives being redirected. It's pretty awesome.

Evolution - what a great adventure - and it's gifted to us as God's children. So when your next step is unclear here is the solution. Start out by being fully grateful for everything that you already have no matter how it appears in the moment because if you let it - it will just be a stepping stone. Then open in willingness to receive your next direction. You can sing it, shout it, just voice it - but be obvious about it and when it comes, for it surely will come, don't run away - open to the possibility that someone who has your best interests at heart, knows exactly how to bring you from where you are right now to where you need to be. And if all is well in your world or even if the discomfort has become your friend, don't resist the natural pull of the Universe as it seeks to move you to the next most perfect place for you to be.

Every step along this Journey home is the greatest adventure, because every step itself is the unfolding to the next. Have a blast with it, don't let anyone pull you down or hold you up. It's like the time I went on my first parachute jump, somewhere around 8,000ft I became conscious that I was really scared of falling out of the open door in the side of the plane. When I shared this with the instructor - he laughed and said, "Yes, but that's exactly what you paid to come up here to do!"

Love and Blessings,

Raj

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