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The Living Arts
The Journey Back to our Original Form
by Jennifer Penick
As an entire culture, we Americans are being forced to live within our means. We are getting off of our massive sugar high of “empty” living. Superficial fulfillment will no longer be supported by our falling economy. Should we be worried? Should we fear the high levels of unemployment and the loss of our homes due to foreclosure? Absolutely not! Instead, let’s choose to see this as a consequential removal of distractions that have kept us from living within our true means.
Having enormous house payments will only allow people to establish a level of income that is fed by a need to pay bills. The upside of removing the huge mortgage and all the other outrageous monthly payments can help us begin to do what we enjoy and get paid accordingly.
It’s not always about the dollars we accumulate that makes us wealthy; it’s about the joy we allow ourselves to experience in every moment that makes us truly rich.
The skewed version of what is acceptable in society is shifting. The current economical failure reflects the values and choices of our collective conscious experience. I have chosen to be engaged in a perceptual twist on all of our “currents.” Even though it might seem radical, I choose to see the beauty unraveling in our suppressed society. We are being given the opportunity to reform on a universal level.
Where there is a lack of positive energy, the true nature of our beings will create the necessary shifts to restore us to our natural state which is love and joy.
I don’t often see love and joy being consciously experienced by the masses; what I do see is the unconscious seeking of love and joy. This is our chance to observe and become a part of the spiritual evolution that is the unseen driving force of all our economic shifts. Joy is free and need not be sought in material manifestations.
As Americans, we believe we are free to create any life we desire. (That is, as long as our credit scores are above 700, we work 80 hours a week and we strive for that one common goal—more money!) There is the widespread belief that the more money you accumulate, the more freedom you will attain. But what kind of freedom will bring us all the things we need to truly be happy? And what happens to that “freedom” now that the free flow of money has apparently decreased? Look around—our belongings are being repossessed and our jobs are being lost—yet this is our chance to recognize this perceived disaster as an opportunity. Indeed, as financial institutions collapse, our access to unlimited potential through the universal bank of knowledge is, in fact, opening. We are discovering what amazing beings we are without our possessions to dazzle our peers and we are now free to create a life of living on purpose.
Finally, we are being approached with the idea of what it looks like to live within our means. What exactly does this mean? Living within our means can be meaningful in requiring us to seek what we desire based more on love and joy and less on the materials we think we need to be happy and fulfilled.
This will look different for all of us, yet it’s human nature that when a group chooses the same experience, it develops programs and beliefs that are group-oriented. The individual experience consequently becomes transformed based upon the guidelines that the group has determined to be a standard for higher living. Sadly, this standard becomes a measurement of our lives. Eventually life can become a matter of measuring up to the group’s standards (keeping up with the Joneses) rather than creating our own experience based on what we truly love and enjoy.
What has been forgotten in these group standards, or mass conscious thinking, is the freedom to experience our individual ability to create the life we truly desire. The questions we awaken to everyday are not “what do I desire for myself to feel good,” but, “what do I need to be desirable to others?” Our entire economy is based upon external acceptance and we spend billions looking for it.
Perhaps this transformation is so simple that it is seemingly too deceptive to perceive. What if all that we were looking for in life to make us happy is actually free and accessible in every moment? This would strip us of old beliefs formed by group standards that have created a superficial disaster for our entire country. It would lead to a mandatory regeneration of our entire ability to manifest our true natural form.
This journey back to our original form is why we are here. We are here to discover who we really are through human evolution, even during the downturns. This unseen force that is pushing our physical and material world into becoming mentally evolved is our unconscious manifestation of a spiritual revolution. These awakenings are setting an entire universe in motion, which has a common direction of seeking more love.
Our natural form tells us simply that we are love and only choose to experience love as something we lack. The regeneration we are collectively experiencing serves as a reminder that we can all create a movement towards experiencing the love that we truly are. When you have nothing, you have then found everything.
Jennifer Penick is a teacher and writer of positive awareness. She currently lives in San Diego serving as a Positive Awareness Consultant and is seeking a publishing adventure for her manuscripts that teach the art of self-transformation. She can be reached at jpenick@att.net.