In this article I'm explaining my own experience in order to illustrate a shift in perception necessary for a new paradigm of reality:
I'm not interested in helping humanity evolve. I'm interested in participating on the cutting edge of the human evolutionary process. "What is the difference?" I've been asked. "Isn't it the same thing? Aren't you helping humanity evolve when you're participating in the evolutionary process?"
Helping humanity evolve is a natural outcome of participating on the cutting edge of the human evolutionary process. Participating in the evolutionary process means playing my part in a larger process than I can conceive of or have control over. It has to do with my direct relationship with the Universe. It fills my soul, because I am directly relating to a Larger Source when I am doing it. The outcome of participating in this is not something I have control over. The fact that it helps humanity pleases me, but the nature of how it helps humanity is not something that is my responsibility. I am on my path, and that path intersects with the path of those who end up being helped by me, and we connect with each other because of it. Connecting in this way is very exciting and ecstatic to me. My responsibility is to follow the path I'm here to follow that puts me in right relationship with the Larger Source. That's it. What happens as a result of doing that I have no control over. The uncontrolled aspect of this is what gives it its life energy. It opens the process up to the unknown, where the Divine part of oneself can be fed by a Larger Source. The unknown is accessed in the present moment, and both the unknown and the present moment are a portal to Divine Source. That's why being able to come into the present moment is so essentially important.
Participating in life can only happen in the present moment. You have to be engaged in the present moment in order to participate. You can't be in the present moment if your center and focus is outside of yourself.
Helping others is a concept where the focus is outside of yourself. I wouldn't say I'm here on earth to help others. But what I do does help others. If it's some kind of emergency and you are there trying to help, things move too fast for concepts. You have to fully engage in order to keep up with what's happening. This is why sometimes emergency situations can be invigorating. You become a part of a larger whole, and are caught up in the energy of what is happening. The helping and participating become merged with each other. You become one with something larger than yourself.
However, it doesn't take an emergency situation for helping and participating to become the same thing. The only real issue is -- "Are you, or are you not, in the present moment?" Understanding this takes a reality shift. It's a paradigm shift.
Participating is active engaging for the benefit of oneself. But it also is a gift to others. The paradigm shift is that if you are doing what is truly of benefit to yourself, you are benefiting your higher self, the divine in you. And that then is in alignment with Divine Order, which is what is in the highest good for all concerned. But you don't focus on doing what you conceive of as the highest good for all concerned. That is an external concept that pulls you from the present moment. You focus on what matters most to the highest part of you. That brings you into the present moment.
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Author's Bio: Jane Ilene Cohen is an Intuitive & Transformational NLP Counselor, and an NLP & TimeLine Master Practitioner, with a private practice in San Diego North County (Encinitas). She does individual counseling (includes the NLP TimeLine Process and hypnosis), works with couples and families, and facilitates groups and workshops. She is also the Founder of the "Life is Meant to Work" thought system.
For more about Jane's counseling services, go to www.janecohencounseling.com/content/counseling-services. For a free phone consultation to decide if this is right for you, call Jane at (760) 753-0733.