Sigscreations's Blog

I created the life I have. No doubt about it. I made choices along the way that led me to this situation and the people that are in my life. All of us do. Good or bad, we create the life we lead.

Looking back I can see now how I had several turning points in my life where I chose the low road. There is no way I can say that I had to make the choice I did. Or that I was being tested by the Universe with these choices because the Universe doesn’t work that way. There are no tests. No pass or fail. No right or wrong. Just choices. Choices that help create the life you have.

The Universe gives you want you ask for. Opportunities will come to you when you want something and feel deeply for it. But what you do with the opportunity when it comes is up to you. The opportunities aren’t always what you expect and can be missed if you aren’t actively looking for them.

The first turning point I remember was when I was a teenager and in response to a sincere desire I had had since I was around eight years old. That’s when my mom was severely hurt in an unusual accident while on a camping trip. We were in the forests on the peninsula of Washington. We had to travel more than 50 miles on narrow two lane twisty roads to find the nearest medical help. My mom ended up losing the end of a finger but within me was born a burning desire to be able to help people. I felt that these people needed someone that they could go to in an emergency without that long dangerous journey. I knew that I might not make as much money as if I was in a city, but that the needs were more important and the scenery was breathtaking. That would more than make up for the money, I felt.

After that I bought every medical textbook I could find at yard sales and read them. I tried to take Latin in school but when I found it was no longer taught I chose German since I knew many terms were also in that language. I was focused and had a goal. But then mom said there was no money to go to college and the dream started to die. But I had put the desire out there to the Universe and it had not forgotten.

It answered me by bringing into my life a man that owned a pharmacy. When he became aware of my desire to go into medicine, he said he would help me with college if I became a pharmacist. I said no. I was too narrow minded to see this as a first step. This was sadly only the first opportunity I turned down.

The next time the universe came knocking and I refused to let it in, was shortly after I got married. A relative of my new spouse said he wanted to meet me and so sent us plane tickets to travel all the way across country to Albany, NY. Now I had always wanted to see New York City, and was given a chance while in Albany, but didn’t go. I was also offered a new car and turned that down even though I desperately needed and wanted it.

All those things I turned down where things I had asked for, dreamed about and truly wanted. Why would I turn down the things I asked for when they showed up? Why would anyone? I think we all do it. Not just once, but over and over again. We just don’t realize it. I didn’t put it together until just last week.

Since last fall I have been taking courses from Bob Proctor, Silva, and Burt Goldman.  I’ve watched the PBS specials with Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra. I’ve read and listened to lots of books on the Laws of Attraction. I’ve watched The Secret and listened to the CD (there are some differences between them, so I recommend both if you can). I’ve attended teleseminars and webinars and all of these gurus say that we DO attract things into our lives whether we know it or not. And after all that training I saw that I did hit all the lights green and I got parking spaces, but my finances hadn’t improved, my relationships hadn’t improved, and my weight wasn’t any less either. Where were my dreams? Why wasn’t I getting what I wanted?

And then I started reading and following the directions in Deepak Chopra’s book: The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire – Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence. In that book Deepak talks about how you need to pay attention to coincidences. That they are messages from the cosmic consciousness (or whatever you want to call it) and that you will get more of them when you start to notice them. I also started to get flashes of insight and intuition and that’s when I realized I HAD been attracting what I asked for but then didn’t take it when it presented itself to me.

Somehow I wasn’t picking up on the opportunities that the universe supplied in answer to my desires. And I bet there are others out there right now making that same mistake. But I am more alert now and hopefully paying more attention. I expect great things  to happen from now on.