One of the greatest keys that anyone could give you to create your own happiness and well-being would be the key of cooperation.\u00a0 And that means cooperating with everything that’s going on.<\/em> -John-Roger<\/p>\n This article by John-Roger was first published in The Movement Newspaper, May 1978<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the greatest keys that anyone could give you to create your own happiness and well-being would be the key of cooperation.\u00a0 And that means cooperating with everything that’s going on.\u00a0 If people express themselves in ways that don’t “go down easy\u201d to you, keep in mind that they’re not better or worse than you just because they don’t talk the way you do.\u00a0 And if someone has very flowery language and is well-educated and cultured, that <\/em>doesn’t mean he’s better or worse than you, either.\u00a0 This thing works both ways.\u00a0 Acceptance is a big part of cooperation — accepting people for who they are and for what they are — seeing past the expression of the moment into the message they deliver from their heart.<\/p>\n No one likes to admit he’s not cooperating.\u00a0 I’m sure you might say, “I’m cooperating.\u00a0 I mean, I get up every morning and go to work.\u00a0 I’m there on time.\u00a0 I leave on time.\u00a0 I keep my mouth shut and stay out of trouble.\u00a0 I’m cooperating.\u201d\u00a0 That may be minimum cooperation, and that may get minimum results.\u00a0 <\/em>But what about the better, greater things you’d like to create in your life?\u00a0 What about the more creative job, more money, greater happiness?\u00a0 How are you blocking the cooperation with your world that will bring those greater things to you?<\/p>\n Attitude is one key.\u00a0 When you are in a state of cooperation, your attitude is one of joy and enthusiasm and abundance.\u00a0 When you’re asked to do something, let that one who asks know that your cooperation extends far beyond what they have actually asked you to do.\u00a0 And then really do whatever it is they’ve asked for.\u00a0 Do it more fully and more completely than they had even thought to suggest.\u00a0 You may find that when you are really in a state of cooperation, you not only do what is asked, you project beyond that into the next thing that is going to be the result, and you are preparing for that immediately.\u00a0 Your focus is beyond yourself and beyond your immediate job.\u00a0 You are exercising your creativity and manifesting your joy.\u00a0 It’s a joyful attitude.<\/p>\n Instead of looking at a new assignment as, “Oh, damn, I just finished one thing and they’re going to load me up with something else,\u201d\u00a0 your attitude is, “What can I do to assist you?\u00a0 Maybe I can think of a way that will assist you even more than you thought possible.\u201d\u00a0 You know, you’re going to be a day older whether you do anything or not.\u00a0 And you can do anything <\/em>smiling or cursing.\u00a0 But you’ll be a whole lot happier if you’re smiling.\u00a0 I can guarantee that! You know, if you are really in a state of cooperation, you can ask someone to close a door to keep a room warm, and that one you ask will run around and close all the doors, turn up the heat, check the windows, and do whatever he can to make sure that you are comfortable.\u00a0 That may be cooperation in an extreme way. \u00a0But it is that willingness to go the extra mile that makes the difference.<\/em><\/p>\n When you’re living outside cooperation, life can get pretty miserable.\u00a0 You may spend a lot of time, just sitting around, “chewing your guts into fiddle strings.\u201d\u00a0 The doctors call it ulcers or heartburn.\u00a0 Or it could be called heartache, despair, agony, and loneliness.\u00a0 You block the flow of energy that is present to be used in action, in doing<\/strong>.\u00a0 When you block the action, when you don’t cooperate with that which needs to be done, the energy turns inward and becomes negative — and you feel that as a “downer.\u201d\u00a0 Sometimes you curse and blame God for your trouble.\u00a0 God probably, didn’t have anything to do with it.\u00a0 You do that to yourself.\u00a0 And you can undo it for yourself.\u00a0 You get out of depression by doing<\/strong>, by moving into the positive flow of action, by cooperating with what is present in your life.<\/p>\n People sometimes feel that life is unfair and the things that happen to them, they don’t deserve.\u00a0 But it’s just not so.\u00a0 When you cry out, “Why me, Lord?\u201d\u00a0 the reply might very well be, “Because you promoted it and it’s coming to you, and I love you so much that I’ll allow you to experience and learn from your own creation.\u201d\u00a0 You always get the things that you have worked to create; that applies equally to things positive and negative.\u00a0 And you get the return in proportion to the effort that you put out towards that — physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.\u00a0 We are creators and we are very adept at it.\u00a0 So when something happens in your life that you like or that you dislike, take a look at what you did to bring that to yourself.<\/p>\n There are a few quick ways to determine whether or not you’re in a state of cooperation.\u00a0 One is the attitude of “I’m right!\u201d which creates separation as it places a judgment on someone or something else.<\/p>\n Another key to knowing your level of cooperation (or lack of it) is: \u201cYou\u2019re wrong!\u201d\u00a0 As soon as you hear yourself say that, you should have somebody kick you real hard where it hurts — to wake you up and get you to look at your attitude.<\/p>\n Another way to tell when you’re not cooperating with what’s going on is if you hear yourself say, “Yes, but…\u201d\u00a0 The way to cooperate with people who are saying, “Yes, but…\u201d\u00a0 is just to let them win, just let them have their way.\u00a0 It’s easy.\u00a0 When they’ve won, then you can continue in your own positive direction, and you don’t have to be involved in their point of view at all.<\/p>\n We’re moving into the new age, into the golden age, into an age where the awareness of Spirit is present more completely than it has ever been before.\u00a0 People are learning and growing at a tremendous rate.\u00a0 You’ll be faced continually with opportunities for cooperation.\u00a0 And you may be aware of and be able to move into some of them, and you may miss others.\u00a0 But later, when the energy drops out from under you and you start to feel the “down\u201d feelings, you’ll realize that you missed a chance for self-cooperation.\u00a0 Use those times to teach you.\u00a0 Look back at those situations.\u00a0 Evaluate where you moved out of cooperation and into your own personal point of view of, “I’m right.\u201d\u00a0 Then just look for the next opportunity for cooperation to appear, and then practice the positive attitude.<\/p>\n In this new age you have infinite opportunity to move into the higher qualities.\u00a0 Keep enthusiasm going within you, for whatever it is you’re involved with.\u00a0 Anticipate joy at every step.\u00a0 And maintain a sense of being grateful for your blessings.\u00a0 Being grateful means maintaining the awareness that God is entirely present in every moment of your life, and that you don’t have to go anywhere to experience the glory of God’s presence.\u00a0 When you are in a state of awareness and cooperation, all things flow to you and you want for nothing.\u00a0 When you block your awareness of God and block your cooperation with His plan for you, then you experience separation and despair.\u00a0 The joy of it is that you can turn to the positive quality at any moment and the joy will be entirely present for you.<\/p>\n And when the joy of Spirit is present, you can’t do enough good works.\u00a0 Your cooperation is full.\u00a0 Your love is manifest.\u00a0 Your Light shines forth into the world and you become of service to everyone you meet.\u00a0 You spread the Light consciousness everywhere you go, and just by your presence you can bring balance and joy to people …\u00a0 you <\/em>don’t even have to say a word.\u00a0 The Light will move through you to others and bring to them what is necessary and beneficial to them.\u00a0 It’s a beautiful service …\u00a0 to live in grace and maintain your awareness of the Spirit within.\u00a0 If you do nothing but that, you are a Light unto the world.<\/p>\n All you have to do is cooperate with what is.<\/p>\n Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n WATCH A MOMENT OF PEACE WITH JOHN-ROGER<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t