Esther is in a new house and she has a new washer and dryer, and the week before she moved in - it was right before Christmas - the washing machine gave her an error code. And it locked the door and she couldn’t get anything out of it, so she googled what the error code meant and it looked very complicated. So she called the people that she had purchased it from, and they put her on a long list of waiting. Her clothes were going to be held captive for about six or seven days. So she just monkeyed around with it and somehow the door opened and she got her clothes out. And then, it sort it fixed itself for a while…it didn’t lock up again. And she thought “It’s going to hold my clothes captive again”, because she knew she hadn’t solved the problem but she wasn’t there, so it didn’t matter so much.?
And then the other day, she was away and her housekeeper called and said, “The washing machine has called an error code”, and her clothes were being held captive.?
So Esther said, “I will be home in a couple of days and we will figure it out.” So the man from the builder came over and played with it and couldn’t figure it out. And then he called the same people that Esther had called before who put her on the waiting list of nine days of clothes held captive.?
And as Esther is listening, she can feel herself all tightening up. Because they bought a lot of appliances from these people. And they shouldn’t be holding their clothes captive and somebody should care more about these clothes being help captive. And it should go to a higher priority and don’t they know who Esther is? Someone who’s really really busy, who doesn’t have time for her clothes to be held captive.?
So Esther got herself worked into quite a little silent fit. She didn’t want to misbehave in front of her contractor but she sort of wanted to kill somebody. And he was the only one in the room, and he felt fear.?
And so ?Esther said, “Well, I have a plan B.” And she said, “I am going to go to Home Depot and I am going to buy a crowbar and I am going to pry the door open and get my clothes out.”
Now he’s really smiling because he believes her.?
“And then I am going to call someone and I am going to say, ‘Can you please come and get this pile of metal and haul it to the dump?’
And then I am going to call somebody else and say, ‘Will you bring that nice shiny washing machine and deliver it?’ And I am going to do all of that today.”
And now they are laughing. Because it’s a ridiculous story, ?but it was shiny and bright. It felt like freedom. It felt like the bondage has lifted. It was a ridiculous plan. But it was a plan. And she no longer felt bound and held captive by people who don’t care. And now she’s really laughing and so is her contractor. And now she’s laughing… which pile she is in. And then she looked her washing machine. It’s a Maytag. And she said, “You know what? The Maytag repairman is just waiting for someone to call because he has nothing to do.” And the contractor said, “That’s right.” So Esther googled Maytag repairman and he was just sitting there with nothing to do. He said I will be right ?there. He came over. He said, “This is a known issue with this particular model.” He fixed it. Her clothes were not held captive and she lived happily ever after.?
So what’s that about now??
Esther’s unique and Esther does not want to be mad, even when she knows she’s perfectly justified in being mad. And so she was guided even though it was not easy, to a stream of thoughts that led her to an idea that she couldn’t find before. She could not find that idea before until she got in to place of comedy. Isn’t that a really logical idea? She couldn’t find it. Her contractor couldn’t find it. Nobody could find that idea until they brought levity to it. So this is a demonstration of no longer wrestling it to the ground and killing it and try to fix what’s broken and instead get into a clear place where you are laughing where the ideas always are.?
Fun is where the ideas are.?
Laughter is where the ideas are.?
Love is where the ideas are.?
Appreciation is where the ideas are.?
The cooperative components are in the good feeling emotion places.?
But when you are working so hard that you don’t allow yourself to feel the momentum of feeling good.?
Start noticing your reactions and see what they get you.?
Notice when your reaction is one of anger and see what it gets you.?
Notice how long you can hold yourself in a holding pattern of no help so it gets harder and harder until you get such a muddly, you can hardly get down the door and down the street because things feel too complicated for you. ?
Or notice how with levity and fun how things feel possible.?
All things are possible but you have to get into the “all things are possible” pile.?
And the” all things are possible” pile is right there to choose from. It’s just that you can’t jump from one pile to the another. But knowing that both piles exist and knowing which pile your Inner Being is in, and being willing to separate yourself through meditation.?
Your Inner Being can lead you from wherever you are out into the light or you might already standing in field in the light.?
There’s nothing serious going on.?
Nothing to worry about.?
And you are not deep into anything except potential and possibility and ideas.?
~ Abraham-Hicks
