My cats each have their own favorite places to sleep and hang out. Giant Maine Coon Izzy likes to be stationed either at the hallway, so he can see anything that comes in the cat door or the front and back doors. My sleek haired, black and white masked harlequin YinYang likes to be in a box top on top of an end table by the tv, with a view toward the living room and backyard. When Izzy finds YinYang in his spot every so often, he just acts like he didn’t even notice and goes elsewhere. When Yinny finds Izzy in her spot however, she goes all King Kong on his fuzzy butt.
The last 3 days, Izzy has spent the entire time sleeping on a carpeted step in my bathroom. He typically has a few favorite shady spots in the yard for his daily sleep rotation and rarely comes in my room at all. Then last night he came into my evening sitting area, something else he rarely does. I scratched his ears and brushed his fur and was delighted when he jumped up onto the table to sit by me. Then I realized he was in YinYang’s box top. The sun had just gone down, so she was due in any time! I kept wondering if I should move him. Then I reasoned he’d move on his own soon enough, since he never stays close long. And I liked him being close. He settled in for a nice, long nap. I knew Yinny would be in any minute. I elected to pick him up, box top and all, and lay him on the credenza just next to the small table. Then I ran and got another box top and laid it on Yinny’s table, and by the time she came in, it was waiting for her. YinYang is very territorial and I’ve seen her pitch her little fits. I’m always glad when she lets one slide.
I have a psychic medium client I’ll call Tracie. Tracie is from Santa Fe, NM where there are a lot of practitioners in her field. It’s a big city but a small community and consequently the various mediums all share clients from the same bank of spiritual seekers. Tracie has only been in the area 2 years so is a relative newcomer and she was surprised to encounter so much jealousy and competition among the readers. Several have told her that “mediums don’t intrude on other mediums’ territory.”
Tracie was surprised by the infighting and competition between the “readers, healers and teachers” in the metaphysical genre there. I mean, these people talk about law of attraction and karma and … well, you get it. I told her that it didn’t matter what profession you are in, or what genre. There will always be people who do what they say they do and who believe what they say they believe, and there will be others who don’t walk their talk, and who get jealous and feel competitive. A lot of them still don’t realize that they attract their clientele by virtue of right of consciousness. It doesn’t matter if there are 100 clients and 10 practitioners, that does not mean everyone is entitled to 10 each. You attract what you attract by virtue of the way you view what you do, and what you expect and believe about the doing of it. With that in mind, it’s impossible to intrude on any one else’s territory.
I once went to a new age fair with am American friend of mine who followed the Sikh tradition. Amrit dressed in traditional Sikh garb and wore his long hair under a white turban. We spent the day just watching the fair events, it was all families and it was a nice long day of fun and food and music and friends. At the end of the day, I dropped him off at his place and hugged him goodbye. That was when I felt the shoulder holster and the gun he kept in it, under his robe. WTF????? “Sikhs are the saint soldiers,” he told me, “always prepared for battle.” What? So that means you need to pack heat for just a day in the park with a bunch of tree huggers? He and I had previously had many conversations about meditation and spiritual discipline and personal practice and the need for peace and belief and faith in God. So I guess he packed the gun just in case God decided not to show up and protect him at the last minute??
I lifted a giant burden from myself when I stopped all thoughts that I had to protect against something. I mean, yes, I keep my doors locked and have a security system, but I mean as far thinking that people can steal ideas and business from me? If they do, then it was theirs by right of consciousness and not mine in the first place. I don’t feel anything is “my territory” or feel intruded upon by invaders. Many of the people I do readings for tell me who else they also get readings from. I think there is plenty of business for everyone.
Give the world something it wants, something that comes from your heart, and you will always have plenty of business. Without worrying about protecting yourself from the competition.
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