The Concious Universe

[truelove]

I know there has been a little bit of debate about wether the Universe is conscious (where is makes things happen for own best interest) or not and a we are totally just manifesting our experience completely free of any guidance or higher purpose. i.e.. If you want something and you'll get it if you line up with it and that's it.

I just wanted to share something that I was talking to a friend about last night...

Over that last couple of months my friend has thrown around the idea of moving to a different city. This was huge for her and the idea was very scary, she wasn't sure if that was what she wanted but the thought was there.
During this time a lot of things have started to go wrong for her.. She was having trouble with people she was close with, the band she was in was not happening, she was having trouble at work, her relationship had broken down and even though she is an amazingly attractive woman she was feeling invisible to men because no one ever approached her (which was unusual!!) She got told she had to move out of the apartment she had been in for ten years and she has failed to find a new place.. In the past few weeks her apartment building has been broken into several times and lastly they cut down the beautiful tree that was right outside her balcony that she drew strength from everyday.. She sat down and cried. Nothing was going right...
Then she tells me that she has been offered a room in a house with a friend in the city that she had thought about moving to, it is available the VERY SAME DAY that she has to move out of her apartment.
She is very, very scared to make the move but I said to her don't you see that if all of these things didn't go wrong her you wouldn't even think of leaving this city but now its like it's harder to stay than it is to leave??
I think that the other city is absolutely where she needs to be right now, and the Universe is almost forcing her to leave... what is this if not a higher consciousness that understands what is best for you and will do anything to make sure you stay on your path.. Even if it's painful.

I told her the story of the butterfly I had read here, that it is the struggle out of the cocoon that pushes the fluid from the body into the wings of the butterfly and without the struggle the butterfly is stunted for the rest of its life.. she GOT IT and said man that's it!! I'm moving.. whoo hoo. good for her..

Except I'm going to miss her. 

[Detached&Allowing]

She has a bigger desire than just this move... it is an event that needs to take place to get her to where she wants to go.  She gave the Universe her order once/twice/thrice upon a time and the Universe is taking her to the next step.  It isn't about what is best for her, it is about guiding (sometime shoving)  her down the right path. 

Make sense?

[truelove]

Yes! That absolutely makes sense. Thank you.

I definitely think she is destined for for bigger things that she just cannot experience in our sleepy little city.
So the move is connected to someother grander thing that she wants for sure. 

I still believe the Universe is conciousness, for me this is true 

[Detached&Allowing]

whatever you believe to be true is... believing is seeing.   

[Love is here]

Similar thing just happened to one of my friends. He had said he wanted to move but never took the step or was serious about it and then everything bad started happening around him and he ended up getting evicted from his place out the blue after 8 years of living there. He doesnt make much money and has no credit yet he got approved immediately when he applied for a place in a much nicer building and better part of town and his energy has totally changed. He use to be extremely negative and paranoid to the point where I at times had to separate myself from him in order for his toxic energy to not rub off on me but within the past few weeks he has been the most positive person I know and a good influence and now I cant wait to move as well. This time next year my life will be so different from what it is now that it will shock people that knew me before. Anyways definitely there's a higher power that sometimes makes things happen for our own best interest. My friend could not live out his purpose where he was at before.

[truelove]

Wow, almost excactly the same. How weird. But it's so cool, because you know they probably wouldn't make the change if they weren't forced to.
Such an interesting subject.

I'd love to know if anyone else has had experiences that happened that forced them to change how they were living? And if so what was the impact on your life?

[lise]

I moved unconsciously using loa but not quite as dramatically as your friend. The house I was living in was perfect when I moved in for what I needed particularly in terms of location for my work and my sons school and the size of the garden at the age he was when we moved in. Over time, as our needs changed I wanted to move but had a list of why i couldn't cost being the main one and wanting to stay pretty much in the location I was. I had a list of requirements that was quite long so I'd kind of resigned myself to the fact that I wouldn't. I think the key was I thought about all the things I wanted in a house but didn't focus on not having them as my current location always still made it a good house. It was a good house - it just wasn't what I wanted.

Anyway through a variety of reasons I did have to move and in a short time scale. As the time was pressing I didnt have time to be attached to what I did want or focus on what I didn't want. I thought I might have to take something less than id find ideal in the shirt term. As it was, I found out I had to move in a month on a Monday, saw an advert in a shop window on  the Thursday, phoned to see where it was fri morn ( very nearby but as I am rubbish at street names, I hadn't heard of it) viewed it fri afternoon and said I'd take it as soon as I saw it! It had everything on my perfect house requirements.

Had the decision not been forced on me to move, I'd probably have not got round to it. As it was, it was the only place I viewed, the money kind of fell into place and the guy I was seeing at the time stayed up day following a night shift and moved my stuff in huge van he borrowed for free from work.

[truelove]

Amazing Lise! And the fact that he could get the ban for free, perfect. 

Reminds me of how I moved into the house I am in now...
I was living with a girl I knew from my work at the time. We had lived together for 10 months and it had been fine. Then she got this new boyfriend and everything began to change, he was always coming and going from our house at weird times and I suspected he was dealing drugs. Then she started acting weird and stealing from me. Then he got violent and   I said to her that he had to stay away from our house, but she ignored me and took him back agin and I knew I had to move out. Within a day of deciding a friend of mine said he had found a new house to live in and asked me if I would live there with him... I agreed immediately and moved.. there was a lot more drama to do with that girl before she was out of my life... but the point is it felt like the wheels must have been turning for me to make the move to this house BEFORE I even had the problem.
Now I've been here for 5 years, have out stayed several housemates (new one on the way soon), but I love it.. and now, due to lots of changes that have been happening to me in my confidence and how I am living my life, I am starting up art classes from home next week and this house is PERFECT for that as I have a big old room unattached from the house I can use as my studio/classroom... it's like the perfection of it all was already in place.. the Universe seems to know what I was going to need, 5 years before I needed it!!

Maybe coincidence.. but I don't believe in them. 

[tereza]

hm...

Well for the longest time I wanted an iPhone, but I wouldn't buy one because it was too pricey and then when the price went down to nearly free, I still didn't get one because I didn't want to change providers (I know, I'm difficult). Anyway, stuff happened where I had drama with my service provider and ended up cancelling my account and switching to a provider that sold iPhones and I finally got my iPhone.  If I hadn't gotten into that drama, I think I probably would've gotten a contract and settled for one of those older free blackberry phones.

It's a bit irritating being pushed into situations like that though. I'm kind of going through that with something else in my life right now. I've been wanting something different for a long time, but since things had been going so well I had no reason to look for change. Now that things are a bit crappy, I'm very open to change.

[Sneha]

Change makes us feel awkward or uncomfrtable but that is when universe is moving things to brig us good ones .Congrats for ur new iPhone.