April 2009 Keep your Eye off the Ball.

Keep your eye off the ball.

In our society, we have been so incredibly trained to keep our eye on the ball that we begin to lose sight of all that around us. And not only that, but according to quantum physics, as long as I keep my eye on the ball I effect its ability to change by simply gazing up on. How does that work, you ask? I may not be able to explain the same way as a physicist would, but I would love to share an example or two of taking your eye off the ball.

In our efforts to figure “stuff” out, whether it is what is wrong with our physical body or why your spouse acts the way they do, or why childhood things still creep into your decision making process as an adult, or how to get out of stuck places, we search for the initial problem. I have studied many modalities where going to the source of the problem can be the key to clearing up the issue. I happen to be one of those people out there who can tap into past lives and other realities, so finding the source of the issue might mean something different to me than it does to you. However, in our infinitely creative ways of being, sometimes if our brain knows what “really” happened, it dwells on it rather than just using the information to go forward. So trained have we been to describe what is wrong. The lists of symptoms, the reasons why we can’t, won’t, don’t do what we really want to do. Ugh. We have been trained very well to find the problem.

I’d like to retrain you. Or detrain. Or rather entrain. Entrainment, not entertainment (although that is just as valuable), is that moment when two or more things come to a place of single rhythm. Like 10 people singing. At first they will be higher, lower, louder, softer; all different and easy to pick out whom is who doing what. Then after a bit, the voices will naturally begin to meld together in pace, quality and it appears they have found a place on an unseen grid to slide their sounds on with ease. Kind of like a ballerina on ice skates; effortless beauty, gliding with grace.

In a recent workshop I took, I loved the way of describing letting go. Most people don’t really understand the concept of letting go. They are afraid if they let go it might go away. Of course, many of might think, and wouldn’t that be the point? Yeah, for the other rest of us, it would be. But remember, we have been trained! Must keep our eye on the ball! If you quit watching the ball and it changed, what would you watch then? If we didn’t have our things wrong with us, who would we be?
Dr. Richard Bartlett of Matrix Energetics describes the idea using quantum physics in a wonderful way. For our purposes, and for fun, I’ll describe it with my own take on it. If we look at our list of symptoms as the problem, it is natural that we would like to find the solution. If I find the solution, which ball am I going to keep my eye on – the problem or the solution? If I keep my eye on the problem, the mere act of my gaze locks the problem into an experience of my limiting watchful eye. If I stare at the solution, it is in essence not allowing it to move forward because I’m staring at it. Finding a solution to a problem in our previous training brings two images to mind: 1) telling the issue it can go and yet holding onto the belt loop so it can’t move. And 2) Conversely, it reminds me of the old gag my dad would pull with his hand on my head keeping me at arm’s length so I couldn’t touch him no matter how I stretched my arms toward his body. Neither position allows full movement of neither the problem nor the solution to create change.

Now what if just for a moment it didn’t matter to me what the outcome was. Just for a moment. In that quick moment, an instantaneous miracle could absolutely take place. How? Because in the moment that I said I wasn’t personally invested in the outcome, it is like taking my hands out of the belt loop. In those 60 seconds, opportunity for change is present. And we all have heard the saying about liking the present, because that means gifts!

In quantum physics, it is stated that human consciousness does indeed have a force. Intention has a force. This force can be harnessed, yes. But what if when we moved our human consciousness out of the moving force and just let the intention and magic of the molecules do their stuff, just for a second, you open up to infinite possibilities. When you look at anything, you settle your eyes on only one possibility, which is sometimes called collapsing the wave into manifestation or into being. What if there was a possibility that served you, but had more than what your brain could imagine! Wouldn’t you think about maybe giving door #2 a try if it became a possibility, if you knew there was a door #2? You might have to not look at door #1 to notice . . .

If we could allow ourselves the experience of entrainment to the what if’s of incredible possibilities, the doors of opportunity blow open with a breeze of far greater potential than we have been trained to look for. You don’t have to hold that space forever if you are not ready to do that yet. You are entitled to watch that ball, and see it up close and personal when it hits you square. Or you can be willing to step into the possibility of what if at the last minute it curved? Or I can imagine Dr. Bartlett saying, “Or turned into a ball of blue slime?” Ok you might not be ready for that lesson in quantum physics, but I think you can handle relaxing for a minute.

The point I am trying to make is there are an infinite number of possibilities of any particular situation and view point. If I identify a place that I would like to see change and know there is a solution out there, the best choice I can make is to allow the solution to make the changes by moving out of the way. This is not to be confused with passive behavior, or waiting for God to handle it for you. It is an active participation in energy movement and then a softening, an allowing of transition to take place with a greater potential than I could possibly imagine.
On the scientific level, photons move in two directions. If a trauma or injury or block of some sort is moving in one direction, the inverse of that energy can be identified from the other direction. When the inverse energy comes from the opposite direction and crosses the path with the block, it cancels itself out. Homeopathy calls that like cancels like. This is how miracles happen. A change in energy changes the outcome. It changes the perspective. It changes the body.
Another great example of Dr. Bartlett is throwing a rock in a pond. You can control which rock you choose, but once it leaves your hand, the magic that happens is beyond your control; concentric circles of moving energy through the water. These changes I am speaking of here are like the moment you throw the rock, there is a relaxing, a breath you take, like taking your eyes off the ball, allowing changes to move like ripples in the body, healing occurs.

So let’s return to entraining. Imagine that you now become the water and you throw your own rock (or coin into a wishing well, if you like). Imagine when your rock or coin drops into the water, you have made your wish. Now, step back from it, disengage just for a moment from the outcome. Just observe the movement. Feel what it would feel like if the ripples moved through your body, gently, consistently, rhythmically. When you can become entrained in the motion with the waves and just BE in the energy, not forcing change, not making them bigger or smaller, just allowing – it is in that moment you have taken your eye off the ball, so to speak, and are allowing the quantum physics of changes to manifest. By not looking, change happens, by throwing the rock or coin, change has been initiated, but releasing lets it manifest.

Give it a try. Just see what happens. Dr. Bartlett says to simply “notice what you notice.” Don’t force, just be. And instead of looking for what is wrong after you give it a try, ask yourself what is different. Move forward in your thinking. If you are not sure, just keep asking, “What is different?” Even something as small as a deep breath can be significant.

Live well, love well, be well.
~Bright Star

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