{"id":4232,"date":"2009-08-15T22:42:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T03:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2013-11-04T17:05:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:05:54","slug":"just-a-different-way-of-looking-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/just-a-different-way-of-looking-at-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Just A Different Way Of Looking At It"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished final layout for the September issue of Horizons<\/a> just in the nick of time last night.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 But now, 17 years later, I know I always manage to get it done on time.\u00a0 And nothing changed but how I perceived it and how I reacted to it.\u00a0 A change in perception can literally change your world. In 1995, I bought a Geo Metro.\u00a0 You know, one of those little roller skate sized cars that got really good mileage.\u00a0 It was the last regular car I had until the Toyota Prius I bought last year. In between, I had SUVs and vans.\u00a0 I always needed to have a vehicle I could haul thousands of magazines in if I had to.\u00a0 One day, I’d driven over to Tampa to pick up the magazines from the printer, and the job filled the entire car.\u00a0 Typically a 7 hour round trip, I was driving home much later since I’d visited with my mom for a couple of hours.\u00a0 I was about 2 hours from home and had a phone appointment in 3 hours.\u00a0 Then I got a flat tire.\u00a0 The Geo Metro had one of those little donut spare tires, and it was, you guessed it, under the floorboard of the hatchback area.\u00a0 Which had several thousand magazines piled on top of it.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It took me about 30 minutes.\u00a0 I timed it so that I was doing all this alongside the after-work-Disney-area-traffic.\u00a0 Perfect timing on my part.\u00a0 Can you imagine how I felt that day?\u00a0 How would you have felt?<\/p>\n

Andrea, I<\/em> hear someone saying, if you are doing the Abraham-Hicks<\/a> work, you should not be attracting things like flat tires. <\/em> As soon as someone says something like this, I know they don’t get it.\u00a0 It was actually one of my best days ever and I know exactly how I attracted it.\u00a0 I’d spent the day driving in my new little car and reflected on how much I loved to be out and about driving.\u00a0 I’d taken the back way through Kissimmee into Tampa, past lots of orange groves, a favorite drive of mine.\u00a0 It was my shortcut to Mom’s house, and so there were happy memories all along the road.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 I thought how nice it would be to get some exercise, instead of sitting.\u00a0 It was an amazingly beautiful spring day, about 70 degrees and I can remember I wore my workout gear.\u00a0 That is when the Universe stepped in and gave me what I’d been thinking about.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 I was dressed to do a lot of lifting and moving about.\u00a0 I got to figure out how the jack worked and how the tire went on.\u00a0 Several hunky guys stopped to help, but I was having such a good time that I waved them on.\u00a0 Changing the tire also got me out of the crunch of the Disney traffic.<\/p>\n

There was nothing in that experience that was a negative.\u00a0 I didn’t feel my time was wasted, since I wanted a workout anyway.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It was so comically instant gratification that it tickled me pink.\u00a0 I recognized the synchronicity and it tickled me how expertly it was orchestrated just for me.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’m more sensitive to recognizing guidance when I see it, since I always I know what I’m asking for.\u00a0 I always keep it in the front of my conscious mind.\u00a0 Then I look for evidence and clues everywhere.<\/p>\n

I thought later how different friends of mine would have reacted to having a flat tire and changing it themself.\u00a0 It didn’t occur to me to call AAA, it was just a tire and I had a spare.\u00a0 Dumber people than I had managed to change a tire.\u00a0 I was sure I could.<\/p>\n

But for me to get all out of shape because of a flat tire, that’s not how I see it.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It was only a tire and I am a strong, able-bodied person who can generally figure stuff out when it happens.\u00a0 Had I not been dressed for it, I would have accepted the help of the half dozen dudes that stopped.<\/p>\n

So, do I think it was bad karma<\/em> or bad luck<\/em> or a negative anything<\/em> that gave me a flat tire?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 There was nothing bad about it. That is not how I view it.\u00a0 It was just a happening.\u00a0 The judgment of good or bad comes from my reaction to the happening, my acceptance of it or my resistance to it.<\/p>\n

Things are going to happen.\u00a0 Who you are and how you are determines what circumstances and events you experience.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 Thanks, Guys!<\/p>\n

And it was a good reminder to be specific in what I ask for in the future \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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