How would it be to know, without a doubt, that you could create any environment you want for yourself, just by working with the purest essence of the Universe? Wouldn’t it be exciting if you knew there were spirit guides that are available, anytime at all, to you alone? Would it change the way you think about things to know that there are angels dedicated to nothing more than helping you learn the life lessons you came to Earth to learn? It certainly changed Eddie Conner’s life when he was shown all these things, and more!
Like many people, Eddie had a rocky start in this world. He couldn’t change his environment in rural North Carolina, as a child, so he decided to change the way it affected him. His willingness to seek meaning in the adversity resulted in his being shown the Light of spiritual guidance. Through trial and error, Eddie learned to stand in that light, and to believe what it showed him. And it is this that he shares with everyone that comes to a workshop, a class or a private psychic reading.
Eddie’s ability to hear and see his spirit guides and angels enables him to tap into the “Higher Energies” of the Universe. Even better, he reminds us that this gift is available to us all. He helps us find ways to disperse the clouds of confusion that swirl between us and our divine Truths.
In 1995 Eddie was invited to the West Coast to be a guest at a major radio station. The public response was so overwhelming, Eddie was asked to move to California and host a show of his own. In the face of this exciting opportunity, Eddie did what he always did, he consulted his guides. To his vast delight, his wants and his guidance agreed this time. This was what he was intended to do. With a full heart he went home to fulfill some previous obligations, sell everything he owned, and move to the other side of the country.
When Eddie got back to Los Angeles, the radio station had undergone internal changes and the job he came to fill no longer existed.
At first, Eddie was devastated. He forgot all about “Divine Plan” and things being in “Perfect Order”. All he knew was that he had dreams, and Los Angeles was now part of them, and he didn’t want to give them up.
In the face of this disappointment, Eddie could have gone home, told his story and gotten plenty of sympathy and support as he stepped back into the comfort and safety of his old environment.
The best example of Eddie’s life philosophy in action, is what he chose to do instead: He began with his belief that nothing is ever an accident, no matter how random it seems. He knew that he had asked for guidance every step of the way, and it had never failed him yet. So, he decided that no matter how this situation looked from the outside, there must be inner harmony with his life plan, he just needed to find it…
… and what he found was, an entire city full of people, hungry to hear the message he knows to be true. Because Eddie is always learning and growing himself, he continually fine-tunes his techniques. That is what Eddie has to teach us, ‘Practical Spiritual Living’.
“Our past is the photograph of where we have been, what we have learned from it creates the roadmap to our future, but the gift of our life is today… that’s why it’s called the present.”
“What is happening around you, does not have to happen to you. …what you do in response to what somebody else is doing is where your power is. This is how you take responsibility for your life… look at the word, ‘responsibility.’ It is the ability to respond.”
The truth is, “You can’t control how you feel. But you can always control how you act.”
These quotes are from Mel Robbins. Her guidance came in handy while working on this newsletter. As it turns out, I had a wonderful opportunity to remind myself that, “what I choose to do in response to what somebody else is doing, is where my power is.” What opportunity you ask? Allow me to share.
Recently I was at my auto dealership working on this newsletter. I was among a dozen-or-so customers relaxing in a café’-style waiting room enjoying beverages and quietly minding my business when I heard a glass door slam. Followed by, what sounded like two women fighting. Everyone in the café turned to see an immaculately dressed woman zipping from around the corner. She ruptured our peaceful space with her loud phone conversation.
Near me, I overheard a young woman say to her husband, “She’s oblivious.” The husband nodded in agreement. A minute later they gathered their things and left. Our haven had exploded into a cacophony of abrupt racket. All of it was coming from Ms. Oblivious.
Ms. Oblivious’ high heeled shoes clacked against the cement floor while she looked for the perfect place to roost. Still on speaker phone she pulled a chair from beneath a table. A loud screeching sound followed. I noticed people shooting her, “Go to hell looks.” Others got up and left. Two more customers moved into the show room. Both pointing back in her direction and rolling their eyes.
Ms. Oblivious dropped her purse on the tabletop with a thud. Her overflowing computer bag crashed into the adjoining chair, papers spilling out. All while giving the person on the phone a blow-by-blow description of everything around her.
“Oh my gosh Grammy, this cafeteria is pure precious on a stick.”
The phone responded with, “Huh! What? I thought you were getting your car fixed?”
“I am Grammy, but this a working lunch.” A sales associate walked past her in the café’. “Excuse me Sir,” she asked pointing hard toward the baked goods, coffee machine and beverages. “Is all of this free?”
The associated nodded and smiled that it was.
“Oh my gosh Grammy, I am so going to bring you treats later on today!”
The words, “Huh! What?” pierced the air.
When she clacked past me, I kept my head down. Ms. Oblivious told the guy at the table next to mine to watch her things while she made a steamed coffee. The louder the coffee machine hissed, the louder Ms. Oblivious hollered into her phone. Grammy hollered back in return. Even. Louder.
With her steamed coffee made, she grabbed cookies from the counter and settled in. She remained on the phone, sipping her coffee and munching on cookies while describing every single bite to her Grammy. With. Her. Mouth. Open.
When she chewed and talked in my direction, I stayed focused on my writing while pecking away on my computer keyboard. Because of her, I decided to ditch my original newsletter idea about rainbows and unicorns. Let’s face it. The minute Ms. Oblivious entered the café with the grace of a B-52 Warplane dropping cluster bombs, I knew I had to keep my thoughts and feelings aligned with what Abraham-Hicks calls, the stream of pure positive energy that creates worlds.
Once Ms. Oblivious was off her call, she organized the disheveled paperwork that was still bulging from her computer bag. Relieved by the silence, I finally felt my shoulders relax. This is good, I thought. I took a deep breath, closed my eyes and mentally bathed in pure gratitude that peace and quiet had returned …
…for the next 38 seconds.
As if catching her second wind, Ms. Oblivious sprang back to life and launched into a high-powered business call. You guessed it. On speaker phone. Just as my fisted knuckles turned white and my solar plexus twisted into a knot of irritation, I recalled this little ditty from Mel Robbins. “Stop bitching. When you complain, you put the spotlight on the problem and wiggle out of taking responsibility. Focus on the solution.”
I smiled to myself, knowing good and dang well that I had been sitting there this whole time, inside my brain, bitching away about this young woman’s loud, inconsiderate behavior. The last thing I wanted to do was put the spotlight back on the problem. As if on cue, magic Mel’s words rolled across the ticker tape of my mind, gently reiterating that, “What is happening around you, does not have to happen to you. …what you do in response to what somebody else is doing is where your power is.”
That’s when I realized that my irritation had been adding fuel to the fire. I was amplifying this exchange with my thoughts of judgement and frustration. Though my inner dialogue was private and I was not rolling my eyes or storming out of the café like other patrons had done – I was still vibrationally adding to the problem and not the solution.
“…what you do in response to what somebody else is doing is where your power is.”
Holy balls.
For the past half hour or so, I had completely forgotten that I am the only person on this planet that can create in my reality. Me! Not Ms. Oblivious. Not Grammy – It’s my personal thoughts, feelings and frequencies that make me or break me. Nobody else has the power to energetically vomit in my vibrational space. Unless I invite them in. And, I had energetically invited Ms. Oblivious right on up and into my mental space!
“This is how you take responsibility for your life… look at the word ‘responsibility.’ It is the ability to respond.”
A light bulb went off in my brain. One of those big-ass bulbs like they use in lighthouses. This light bulb moment elevated me back to my core essence. I almost started laughing. From this perspective I felt pure alignment. Instead of feeling pissed off, I was suddenly lighter. More curious. Now, as I glanced around the café’ everything and everyone seemed brighter. Lighter. Calmer. The knot in my gut had vanished. My mind felt clear.
Somewhere off in the distance I could hear someone speaking. It was Ms. Oblivious. She was on her phone, but this time it was like I had brand new eyes and ears to see and hear. I was observing her from a space of pure positive energy Abraham-Hicks speaks about.
Per Ms. Oblivious’ latest communication, I accessed that she was a realtor. And from the sound of it a really good one. Ms. Not-So-Oblivious-After-All negotiated a hard-closing sell with the bank and a high-profile client on a conference call. The call ended with her client getting the home of their dreams and Ms. Oblivious softly cheering, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” under her breath.
A moment later she floated across the floor, grabbed a second coffee and more cookies before popping open her laptop and typing away on her computer. While emails were being typed, checked and sent she sipped her coffee and returned texts.
With her second coffee finished, she pulled a plastic sandwich bag from her briefcase and placed the uneaten cookies in it. Then grabbed a few more cookies from the snack counter. For Grammy I guess. She checked her hair, face and teeth in a compact hand mirror from her purse.
She really was beautiful.
After applying fresh lip stick and touching up her hair, she brushed crumbs from her sleek, black blazer, hopped off of her chair and grabbed two cans of soda from the fridge and dropped them into her purse.
I watched her reflection in the glass partition as she cleaned her table and tossed her trash. Checking the area around her, she gingerly placed her purse over her shoulder and grabbed her computer bag. She looked like a million bucks as she sashayed out of the café. Suddenly the café’ was quiet. Except for the fading sounds of high heels clacking against the cement floor. Smiling, I looked around the café. Everyone else had left. I was alone. In this silence, I felt light, happy and contemplative.
I let Ms. Oblivious trigger me. I allowed her behavior to set me off 37 different ways to Sunday. And, in less than one minute of her entering the café’. What especially triggers me are people that are rude, inconsiderate, unconscious and unnecessarily loud.
For years, I thought people behaving badly was a personal attack on me. I don’t know why, I just did. And what a huge waste of time and energy that was. It’s true that at any given time, we can get triggered. Learning not to get triggered is harder than it looks.
Ms. Oblivious reminded me that when I get triggered, I need to stop in my mental tracks and take a beat before negative emotions erupt. Mel is right. We cannot always control how we feel in the moment, but we can control how we act.
Thanks to Robbins, I was able to reset my negative emotions back to positive emotions. From her book, Let Them, here is the complete quote from Mel Robbins.
“What is happening around you, does not have to happen to you. …what you do in response to what somebody else is doing is where your power is. This is how you take responsibility for your life… look at the word ‘responsibility.’ It is the ability to respond.”
“And we forget when we get ourselves so stressed out because the grocery line isn’t moving the way that you think it should move. And now you’re draining your life force over something so stupid. And then you wonder why are you so tired? Why are you so overwhelmed? Why are you last on your list? It’s because you allowed death by a thousand cuts. You allowed people’s moods and inconsiderate strangers and the headlines in the news to be something that impacts you.”
“There’s a different way to live. You just say, “Let them.”
Every minute of our lives we get to choose whether we are going to be part of the problem or part of the solution. It’s seriously more advantageous to be part of the solution. A part of the greater good. On that note, until we meet again, remember to keep your thoughts, feelings and frequencies high, fast and pure so you can Unlock the Universe Within.
With Sincere Appreciation,
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