I finished final layout for the September issue of Horizons just in the nick of time last night.  Now I just need to spend a few hours proofing it before sending it off to the printer. I used to freak out if I was this late finishing it up.  But now, 17 years later, I know I always manage to get it done on time.  And nothing changed but how I perceived it and how I reacted to it.  A change in perception can literally change your world. In 1995, I bought a Geo Metro.  You know, one of those little roller skate sized cars that got really good mileage.  It was the last regular car I had until the Toyota Prius I bought last year. In between, I had SUVs and vans.  I always needed to have a vehicle I could haul thousands of magazines in if I had to.  One day, I’d driven over to Tampa to pick up the magazines from the printer, and the job filled the entire car.  Typically a 7 hour round trip, I was driving home much later since I’d visited with my mom for a couple of hours.  I was about 2 hours from home and had a phone appointment in 3 hours.  Then I got a flat tire.  The Geo Metro had one of those little donut spare tires, and it was, you guessed it, under the floorboard of the hatchback area.  Which had several thousand magazines piled on top of it.  So here I was, after a long day, alone, having to unload stacks and stacks of magazines to get to the spare and change the tire.  It took me about 30 minutes.  I timed it so that I was doing all this alongside the after-work-Disney-area-traffic.  Perfect timing on my part.  Can you imagine how I felt that day?  How would you have felt?

Andrea, I hear someone saying, if you are doing the Abraham-Hicks work, you should not be attracting things like flat tires. As soon as someone says something like this, I know they don’t get it.  It was actually one of my best days ever and I know exactly how I attracted it.  I’d spent the day driving in my new little car and reflected on how much I loved to be out and about driving.  I’d taken the back way through Kissimmee into Tampa, past lots of orange groves, a favorite drive of mine.  It was my shortcut to Mom’s house, and so there were happy memories all along the road.

I’d been reflecting on the way home just how nice a day it had been, and thinking how nice it would be to be outside in it, if only I didn’t have to hurry home for my appointment.  I thought how nice it would be to get some exercise, instead of sitting.  It was an amazingly beautiful spring day, about 70 degrees and I can remember I wore my workout gear.  That is when the Universe stepped in and gave me what I’d been thinking about.

I got some exercise by unloading the entire back of the car, and I got to spend time in the sunshine while I was doing it.  I was dressed to do a lot of lifting and moving about.  I got to figure out how the jack worked and how the tire went on.  Several hunky guys stopped to help, but I was having such a good time that I waved them on.  Changing the tire also got me out of the crunch of the Disney traffic.

There was nothing in that experience that was a negative.  I didn’t feel my time was wasted, since I wanted a workout anyway.  I wished I could be out in the fresh air instead of sitting in the car, and the magic genie made that happen for me.  It was so comically instant gratification that it tickled me pink.  I recognized the synchronicity and it tickled me how expertly it was orchestrated just for me.

Maybe I’m more sensitive to recognizing guidance when I see it, since I always I know what I’m asking for.  I always keep it in the front of my conscious mind.  Then I look for evidence and clues everywhere.

I thought later how different friends of mine would have reacted to having a flat tire and changing it themself.  It didn’t occur to me to call AAA, it was just a tire and I had a spare.  Dumber people than I had managed to change a tire.  I was sure I could.

But for me to get all out of shape because of a flat tire, that’s not how I see it.  For me to freak out because I had an appointment I was cutting it close for, and no phone signal, would have served no purpose.  It was only a tire and I am a strong, able-bodied person who can generally figure stuff out when it happens.  Had I not been dressed for it, I would have accepted the help of the half dozen dudes that stopped.

So, do I think it was bad karma or bad luck or a negative anything that gave me a flat tire?  No.  There was nothing bad about it. That is not how I view it.  It was just a happening.  The judgment of good or bad comes from my reaction to the happening, my acceptance of it or my resistance to it.

Things are going to happen.  Who you are and how you are determines what circumstances and events you experience.  And it’s not about what the body is going through as much as it is about what your mind is going through during the happening.

In my case, I recognized the flat tire as the Universe’s very clever way of quickly giving me exactly what I’d been asking for just moments before.  Thanks, Guys!

And it was a good reminder to be specific in what I ask for in the future 🙂

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