Still Do-ing?

Following on from last month where I came to the conclusion that I needed to ‘do’ something in order to achieve a desired result.

What to ‘do’. Well that is going to depend upon my current story, what do I ‘think’ I need to ‘do’?

There are many different approaches to ‘do-ing’ something. Depends what you want really.

Take a look around at the world of ‘do-ing’ people running around endlessly trying to achieve a goal. This ‘do-ing’ take a tremendous amount of energy, sometimes money, always time. Many are lost in the pursuit of a goal and spend all of their time and energy trying to reach that goal.

For many, the goal is simple – survival on a daily basis. For others who no longer have to worry about survival on a daily basis different goals present.

Yet, no matter where you are on this ‘ladder’ there is always a goal. Your goal may be more sophisticated, more ‘advanced’ but it is still a goal.

Some people will suffer ‘burn-out’ because their nervous system cannot handle the stress and pressure of the constant do-ing. Chronic fatigue is another result of do-ing to excess. A nervous breakdown, physical, mental and emotional issues can all be the result of constant do-ing. Even premature ageing.

To even consider slowing down runs contrary to the accepted programming that we need to be do-ing all of the time. So much so, that unless there is an intervention (burn-out, breakdown etc) accident to significant illness many people just refuse to accept the need to slow down.

It is not easy to slow down in a competitive world, surrounded as we are by people lost in the race.

But, as with all things, we are still the products of our past. If a seed has been planted that says, slow down, then that seed will, slowly, grow. If the seed never gets planted the very idea of slowing down never enters the awareness of the individual.

Slowing down may, even with a seed working its way through your consciousness, be a real challenge. On one hand, we may intellectually recognise the need (and even the benefits) of slowing down, yet the need to ‘do’ is so deeply embedded into our perceptions that the struggle can be enormous.

For me, the path of ‘Clearing’ seems to have taken care of the ability to slow down, not by confronting it but by working around the issue.

Clearing, in its early stages is all about developing the ability to accept all phenomena with equanimity. No judgement, no blame and no identifying with whatever arises.

Still, in the early days of this practice there remains, somewhere in our consciousness, an attachment to an outcome, We ‘want’ the person to get better, to move out of a challenging situation. This appears to be human nature for most, to want to help others.

Yet while the ‘helper’ is still lost in their own perceptions, values and judgments, any help that are able to offer is limited and may not be that which is required by the one ‘suffering’. For all the time the helper believes the other is suffering they will continue to feel the need to ‘do’ something to help.

One of the hardest parts of this Clearing Journey is to stop do-ing. To step back from trying to fix.

This awareness arises gradually as we develop the ability to accept more and judge less.

After a while it becomes obvious (to the Clearer) that it is who they have become that is supporting the journey of the other, having nothing to do with what they ‘do’.

As we become the clarity there is no longer the need to ‘do’ anything. Hard as that may be to accept for someone still caught in busy-ness it is where the beginnings of true power lie.

For one who has reached the place of not do-ing, then so much is possible, but without attachment to any outcome.

Then we are well and truly on the path of do-ing nothing and achieving everything.

The world changes for the one who has reached this understanding.

Free from the need to do yet still manifesting. Not by do-ing, but by be-ing.