119. Priorities

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CXIX

Extraordinary Events, Priorities, & Rescues:

Appropriate Applications

Lecture based Questions:

1. Draw or describe a reminder or symbol of one of your helpers.

Your Guardian Angel is your #1 helper. She can help you get a good perspective. This might be a good time to remember her.

2. Why does it take so much experience to get priorities in order?

Life and the universe are full of a zillion elements. It takes quite a bit of learning to experience and sort them all out into their order of importance or urgency. We get good at one type of circumstance, and then we are given a new type of circumstance in which to gain skill and familiarity.

By their nature, extraordinary events always take precedence. When we try to go on as though nothing has happened, then we run into problems.

3. What are extraordinary events? Do they occur for some esoteric reason?

Any form of attack, breakdown, illness, or accident is considered to be an extraordinary event. Also when such a thing happens to someone under your responsibility, it encircles your life also. There are some beneficial circumstances that can also happen, such as social events and rites of passage. All of these must be treated with respect and given space in the schedule of your life. They will and should disrupt your regular life.

They happen for a lot of reasons. They happen because our personal belief system invites them to our lives. They also can happen because we are being tested for our reactions. Usually, they happen because of habitual thinking or neuroses.

Sometimes your Guardian Angel puts one in your path to put you in the right place and the right time for something else.

4. Are extraordinary events planned into the Life Disk?

Yes, but not all of them occur. If you are in a position to learn through the experience, or if such an event stimulates your receptivity, then your Guardian Angel will push the activation button to manifest it.

There are certain neuroses that we keep for several lifetimes. For instance, if you are a co-dependent you have probably been so for incarnations. If you are used to being in crisis mode with little or no time left over for regular life, you will be bombarded with such events until you understand that this is not the correct way to live.

There are certain unavoidable events that can be beneficial or traumatic. Either way, they test our stamina, wisdom, awareness, and flexibility.

5. When I am already running at full capacity in my daily schedule, how am I supposed to cope with emergencies?

The Masters teach that we are not supposed to fill up our time with obligations. We are to set up a minimum schedule of meditation, work, and health care, and allow our free time to be spent with uncommitted study, recreation, and self-improvement. A strictly set schedule that does not allow room for fixing what needs fixing is a recipe for stress and spiritual depletion. Some of us can’t even get the bills paid on time or the dishes washed every day because of our messed up priorities. Meditation on these things seems to help with the correct order of a day and its successful outcome.

6. Am I supposed to rescue someone who is having an emergency and is asking for my help?

Here is where it can get subtle. You are a neurotic co-dependent if you are looking for ways to help people, or if you are habitually rescuing an addictive person.

When someone does ask for help, it is good for you and for the other party if you set limits to your helpfulness. You know that this limit is. It is wrong if your own needs are neglected. It is wrong if you lack the energy and the wealth to participate.

The reason why we are here is to help each other. However, it is not helping when we encourage addiction or dependency in others.

7. What are the correct priorities of daily life?

Anything that we do to support the following in their order is to be correct and nurturing to ourselves, which is the key to a well-balanced and high-quality life.

8. Exercise: Circles of Peace

•Sit comfortably so that your body does not distract you. Breath deeply and slowly.

•Imagine a ring of heavy gold metal surrounding you. All sound stays outside the perimeter. Inside is quiet and security.

•With your inferior hand, trace a circle clockwise over your heart chakra five times. Say, “Peace in the heart creates peace in the mind.”

•With your inferior hand, trace a circle clockwise over your solar plexus eight times. Say, “Peace in the body creates peace in life.”

•Breathe slowly and deeply three times.

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