I’ve become very attuned to being an observer – whether as a mom, an artist, a teacher, an employee, an animal guardian, a fascinated people-watcher. Still, it often catches me off guard when an observation illuminates itself in unexpected places and ways! And yesterday, it happened TWICE! Both involving lessons from the Master Keys.

I had MUCH to do! Lots of disconnected, unrelated, time-consuming things (much like EVERYONE’S lives, yes?) Deep into my day, my observation was: “There is really so much to do here, I’d just much rather collapse on the couch in front of the TV and just ignore it all. I don’t want to do all this.” (My OLD BLUEPRINT speaks!)

          …       yet        …

I watched myself simply, efficiently and, yes, effortlessly tick off all the tasks on the to-do list with a level of “unconscious competence”! I “just did it“!! Long into the evening! So much fun to watch – as though someone ELSE was doing it all. “Way to go NEW BLUEPRINT!!”

The second incident actually happened after retiring for the night! I have in my menagerie a 16-year-old rescue miniature schnauzer, Walter, who is deaf, nearly blind and subject to intermittent bouts of “schnauzer dementia”. Lately he has begun to require – literally – an hour to settle down to sleep after I turn out the lights. As the routine progresses through multiple trips outside, numerous “cookies” to go back to bed and uncountable lights-on-lights-off … Let’s just say I get VERY irritated and vocal (it’s not ok – and I KNOW it’s an opinion –  he can’t hear me so … I’m venting to myself!)  Observation: the law of least effort’s “Acceptance” …

“I practice acceptance. I accept people, situations, circumstances and events as they occur. I know that this moment is as it should be because the whole Universe is as it should be. I do not struggle against the whole Universe by struggling against this moment. My acceptance is total and complete. I accept things as they are in this moment and not as I wish they were!”

– sigh –

I relaxed. Walter went to sleep. The Universe continued in its perfect course and the lessons had been learned! I am grateful!