How Do You Do That

Once I asked a seagull, “How do you do that?”

I was walking along the beach near Delmar, California and a seagull flew by. It stopped in front of me, hovered, and then flew on. I thought that was so cool that I called out to him, “Hey, how do you do that?”

Its answer was to turn around, head back to me, and hover over my head. I watched for a long time and when I said, “Thank you for showing me how you do that” it flew away.

In our group called The Shift® Insiders I am always saying to them, “Ask me ‘how do you do that?’” I am thinking that if they see that I am already doing something they want to learn, then instead of needing to figure out the “how” for themselves I would be delighted to eliminate that learning curve and simply show them.

Walking again, this time in a neighborhood in Ohio, and holding a wide angle vision as I walked, I realized that I don’t directly ask, “How do you do that” to the infinite creator as I admire Its handiwork seen as the beautiful homes and trees and flowers and singing birds, and clouds in the sky.

I realized that God is probably patiently waiting for me to be bold and ask, “How do you do that?” How do you provide instantaneously and consistently for every blade of grass, every grain of sand, and every feather of every bird? How do you do love as the core of your Being?

I imagine that God would show me the answer the same way the seagull did, It would demonstrate to me instantaneous provision and infinite love and my only job would be to be aware enough to see it.

You are ahead of me aren’t you, because you know that is exactly what is going on all the time.

We are consistently provided with the demonstration of provision and love, but we are blind to it when we allow ourselves to be swept away by, and hypnotized by, the siren call of the evil of the worldview of lack and separation.

We watch, and sometimes even participate in, screaming and yelling, and blaming, and despair, and bad news, and hate, and greed, and unconscious thinking and believe that all of that is real and participating in this way will solve the problem and get us what we want.

We get caught up in it, mesmerized by it, and frozen by this evil that sometimes wears lamb’s clothing, but always bears the fruit of fear, hatred, or depression, or guilt.

We are sold the idea that the world owes us everything and we expect it to give us what we want now. When we accept this point of view as real we become addicted to figuring out how to extract from the world what we feel is our right to have.

If we don’t receive what we want the way we expect it to be, depending on how our human personality deals with these things, we may be angry, or depressed, or take offence. We may drop out or push harder.

Thinking that it is the world that provides what we want and need, we have made the world in debt to us and in doing so have become a debtor to the world, which of course has resulted in the massive debt with which countries and individuals are now burdened.

But it is not the world that provides, it is the infinite intelligence of Love that is provision. It’s a definite and radical shift in the way we think. We are not material beings, we are spiritual ideas of this divine Love, we are the provision, we are the supply, and we are the beauty that we see.

Perhaps this is incomprehensible to us most of the time, given that we have been blinded for so long by the opposite view, but we can and now must begin to see what is True about each one of us. One way to do this is simply ask of the infinite intelligence known as God, “How do you do that,” watch for the immediate answer and then say, “Thank you!”

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I wrote a book called A Woman’s ABC’s Of Life: From Women Who Learned The Hard Way that has a whole bunch of practical advice. I wrote it hoping it would save women of all ages lots of learning time. You can read more about it here: Perception Publishing