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“If you look at life as being a ladder you can visualize each “problem\u201d as a rung in that ladder. If you take away the \u201cproblem\u201d you take away your potential growth. You learn from experiences…”<\/em> – John-Roger<\/p>\n This article by John-Roger was first published in the Movement Newspaper, August 1973<\/strong><\/p>\n Let’s look at a few aspects of consciousness.\u00a0 It is possible for you to lift out of your present level of consciousness into other, higher ones.\u00a0 This becomes thought-provoking for people to find they can do these things they never thought possible.\u00a0 Many times you have to have a key given to you, a door pointed out, and a keyhole and a doorknob brought to your attention.\u00a0 But if you don’t do anything after that, then nothing will really happen to you. You’ll just sit there with the keys, the information, the knowledge and the where-with-all to change things for yourself, but nothing will happen. It will not be done unless you do it.\u00a0 Let’s talk about this factor of not doing for a moment.<\/p>\n Many times people make decisions by default.\u00a0 This is when you won\u2019t make a decision \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d and consequently, the decision is forced upon you from outside of yourself.\u00a0 And you aren’t always too happy about that particular decision.\u00a0 Too often, you become hesitant about making a wrong decision – if any decision can be called \u201cwrong.\u201d\u00a0 But I have found, through experiences of working with people in the realms of Light beyond the physical on all levels of consciousness, that ultimately and in Reality, there is no wrong decision except that which you label as being wrong.<\/p>\n After you have decided on something, you can look at that decision, that movement, or that direction, as being a lesson – just strictly a lesson-problem solving experience.\u00a0 And when it becomes possible to solve the problem, you find out that it has all been a very positive action.\u00a0 But if you can’t see a way out of a problem, you feel boxed in.\u00a0 And this brings in frustration and a feeling of irritability.\u00a0 A lot of people call this an \u201cinferiority complex.”<\/p>\n One man said to me, I have an \u201cinferiority complex.\u201d\u00a0 I said, “Maybe it’s not a complex.\u201d\u00a0 He looked at that idea for a while and said, “Maybe it’s not.\u201d\u00a0 I said, “Could it be that in the area you are working you are inferior?\u201d He thought about that and said, “Yes, I believe I am.\u201d I said, \u201cThen why don’t you work in an area where you are not inferior?\u201d\u00a0 He worked through that for a while and decided that he would be better suited in another area.<\/p>\n So, he moved to that other area and experienced greater success.\u00a0 Then he worked on the weaker area in his spare time until that was stronger too.\u00a0 In other words, he found out his strengths, utilized them, and then worked on his weaknesses to build them up to strengths.<\/p>\n I think that too many times the problem is that you allow a situation to come in on the level of your weakness, and it becomes too much for you to handle.\u00a0 And then it represents a problem.\u00a0 However, it’s only a problem if you see it that way; someone else may look at it and perceive the answer for it immediately.\u00a0 Many times, what you are looking at as a “problem\u201d isn’t one at all – it’s just all expression.\u00a0 When you can perceive it as an expression and see that there are alternate ways to express, you have a way to move through it and to change it if you want to.<\/p>\n If you look at life as being a ladder you can visualize each “problem\u201d as a rung in that ladder.\u00a0 If you take away the \u201cproblem\u201d you take away your potential growth.\u00a0 You learn from experiences, but you learn more from your negative experience than from your positive ones.\u00a0 These experiences that hit at you and shake you will he your most effective areas of learning the good times you’ve had.\u00a0 But look at all the time you’ve wasted trying to have \u201ca good time.\u201d\u00a0 And what did you really accomplish?\u00a0 You might not remember much except that you had a good time.<\/p>\n But how about the bad times?\u00a0 Probably you can remember who said what to whom and what the whole situation was like.\u00a0 This tells you that you learn and you remember more through the negative process.\u00a0 But if you can use that negative process as a stepping stone, then it hasn’t been negative at all.\u00a0 You have turned it into a positive action.\u00a0 You surmount negativity by standing up on the things that appear to be negative and using them to lift you higher.\u00a0 The “problem\u201d is still there; you just shift your consciousness in relation to it and start surmounting it in a positive way.<\/p>\n As soon as you realize there is an answer to every problem, it becomes easier for you.\u00a0 Sometimes the answer is to do nothing, to hold steady, to not move.\u00a0 Often people say, “I’ve got to do something about this; I’ve got to do something.\u201d\u00a0 I say, \u201cWhy?\u201d\u00a0 They say, “Because I just have to.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s not necessarily a good answer.\u00a0 So I say, “What if you moved this way?\u201d\u00a0 They look at that and say, \u201cThat won\u2019t work.\u201d\u00a0 So I say, “What if you moved that way?\u201d\u00a0 They say, “That won’t work either.\u201d\u00a0 I say, “What if you just hold still?\u201d\u00a0 Well, they’re not sure.\u00a0 But they might hold still – and it’ll be that stillness that will allow the solution to come into their consciousness and let them be on their way.\u00a0 And then they say, “Thank God I didn’t do that.\u00a0 It’s a good thing I couldn’t make up my mind.”<\/p>\n Sometimes this “decision by default\u201d is good; but most of the time, because you, in your consciousness, are a directive force and are energy in motion, it’s best to have movement – for that is your building action.\u00a0 That is your growth.\u00a0 As soon as you have declared an intent one way or the other, you will put your energy into that decision.\u00a0 Then if it does not feel clear, you can reverse your decision and direct the energy another way.\u00a0 But if you spend your time on the “tightrope,\u201d you usually end up frustrated.\u00a0 You have to make a movement.<\/p>\n Furthermore, if you know that, in ultimate reality, any decision you make, any direction you move in, is going to be for your highest good – no matter what it is – then you’re on; you’re moving; you’re going up.\u00a0 And nothing can stop you as you move your consciousness into higher and higher levels.<\/p>\n Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n
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