Question: How can I make a change in my life and move on without worrying?

Answer: Often when we have the urge to move on, there’s a reason for it. It can be that it’s time to move on. That’s what’s up and the more you can cooperate with that, the better off you are. The more you resist it, the more it becomes something that kind of forces you out. Why? Because it’s time for you to move on.

Often people want to know what’s going to happen when they make the choice to move on. They wonder what will be their next step. They worry what will happen next.

Whatever’s going to happen when you make a choice and go onto your next step, that’s what’s going to happen. Whatever it is, it’s good, and if you look in your heart, you’ll find that goodness. When you find it, you’ll relax. That’s one of the signs that you’re onto who you truly are. You’re registering consciously who you are which is inherently good, relaxed, open and trusting. Who you truly are is at peace with yourself.

Sometimes we like a little adventure in our life which may get us into trouble. Maybe we wanted to have a new experience or make a change that seemed interesting. However, one of the teachings of MSIA is to stay out of trouble if you can help it. The kind of trouble I’m defining here is something you don’t need. Trouble is an unnecessary experience.

If you have an experience and you realize you didn’t need it, that will probably occur after you’re already in the experience. You will have created an experience that troubles you. You then might ask yourself, “Why would I do such a thing? How could I be so stupid?”

Don’t go there. That’s an invitation to repeat the experience. Don’t ask yourself, “How did I do this to myself?” unless you want to have it shown to you again through the experience. Wasn’t that troubling experience enough? Instead, have the wit to say, “That’s enough, thanks!”

If there’s a mess, clean up that mess. By cleaning it up, you’ll demonstrate that you understand and that you have learned. But if you try to avoid the responsibility of what you’ve created, that tends to order up another experience until you truly appreciate the experience. So be glad to clean up the mess. And be glad to clean up somebody else’s mess too, if that’s for your learning and growth.

Often the way karma goes is you’re cleaning up your own creation, even though it seems like the others around you did it. You may wonder why you have to clean up their mess too. Don’t get into, “Well, I didn’t do that. I shouldn’t have to clean up their mess.” The reality is if you’re in it, it’s your mess. So clean it up. If you walk into a mess and your conclusion is, “I didn’t do this,” then help make it better. Wherever you are, make that place better than you found it. After all, who says your memory is accurate? Maybe you don’t remember. You actually did create the mess, and it’s time to clean it up.

If you feel a sense of unfairness, that’s just a test because all is fair in love. All is fair in God. Don’t worry about the war part. Just worry about the love. That’s a good thing to worry about, if you’re going to worry. Why? It gives you something to focus on: Love. So if you’re going to worry, worry towards the love.

There’s an order in God’s kingdom. It’s all taken care of. When you know that, then worry is something you wouldn’t do. You just wouldn’t engage in it. So if you’re worrying, then you have parted company with God’s reality. You’re somewhere in your own camp. It’s not to say that there aren’t others there with you. But it’s an alien camp because you don’t really belong there. You don’t belong in worry. It’s not your natural way. It’s a habitual way, but it’s not your natural way.

Once you realize that things are in God’s order, there’s no cause for resistance. You relax which is a natural outcome of seeing that things are the way they should be. There’s nothing to worry about because everything is in God’s order. That order is such that it’s taken care of. You’re taken care of. I’m taken care of. We’re all taken care of.

Worry is a consciousness of ignorance. It’s a consciousness that doesn’t know what’s going on. It’s working in darkness and illusion. If we look at something in a limited way, we may perceive there’s something wrong. However, that’s an incomplete view. If you saw the complete view, you’d know there’s nothing wrong. When you come to the consciousness that knows what’s going on, that all is well and in perfect order, worry goes away.

The way to move on worry free, which is part and parcel in MSIA, is through your acceptance, trust and faith. You can get right to it. It’s the consciousness of knowing without consciously knowing. So disengage from what you see or perceive consciously. Move away from your worry, and go to what you know intuitively past what you see.

Engage in the knowing that all is in God’s perfect order. All is taken care of in God’s light and love. Then you’ll realize, “Hey, things are okay. I don’t have to worry. I can move on, worry free.”

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