[I was feeling a bit discouraged about the low turn-out for one of my recent teaching events, so I channeled my Higher Self, Samuel, on how I could regain my passion for such offerings. — Rob]
Rob: Okay, Samuel, perhaps you can talk to me a bit about what I’ve got to do to reconnect with the passion of why I’m doing all of this. How can I get to a point of not allowing external events to affect me? How how do I regain that passion?
Samuel: Well, hello again, Rob. Here we are in our usual place, and I’ve teased you before that you tend to only come to me when you have some problem. Why can’t we just visit and have some fun?!
But of course, you know, I’m always here — always here with you. I am you. You are me. So let’s see if we can’t sort this out.
Not wanting to be one of those who answers a question with a question, but I have to ask, why are you doing this? Why are you here? Why do you choose to be a teacher, choose to be a coach, choose to be on the spiritual path, as you call it?
Rob: Well, fundamentally, it’s because I want to help people.
Samuel: Exactly. So if your motivation is that you just want to help people, does it matter how many people that is? Is it less significant if it’s one person?
I’m sure all of your teammates will tell you that you’ve helped them in one way or another, at one time or another. Does that scratch your itch regarding what your motivation is to help people? If you’ve helped any, should that not be enough?
Everyone is here on this planet, ultimately, for the same reason. There’s a divine plan at work. Humanity is transitioning to a whole other level. You are here to help that along. If you only help one person, one other soul, is that not enough? Have you not fulfilled what you came here to do?
You’re starting to wrap your head around, or at least grapple with, this whole notion of seeking external validation, that is validation from something outside of yourself. Why?! If your motivation is to help people, then YOU are the judge of whether you are doing that or not.
The difficulty that all humans face is that you JUST DON’T FULLY KNOW what impact you are having. Humans want to know; they want to know all the details. It’s not necessary … but this is where faith comes in.
If you approach any situation, any interaction, any class, any webinar, any one-on-one session, from the perspective that you are simply there to be of assistance, then be content with that alone. It doesn’t matter what the outcome is that you SEE, for you don’t see all that is happening as a result of those interactions. Go into the situation reminding yourself why you are doing this, and be content with yourself for having helped, [or] at least having tried. That should be enough. Anything else is simply YOU seeking opportunities to beat yourself up over nothing.
So I would suggest that you make it a habit — and yes, to “make it a habit” means practicing it routinely — to remind yourself through the day, “Why am I here? Why did I volunteer to come do this?” If being a teacher and a coach or just a help-meet to anyone that you encounter over any situation (even if it is simply passing somebody in the grocery store), if you approach it from the perspective of, “I’m just going to be helpful,” and you are content with doing only that, then how can every day not be a success?
This may seem like a simplified view of the world, a suggestion that is perhaps too simple. I’m suggesting to you to try this for a while and see how your mood changes. In the spirit of keeping it simple, I will leave it there.
Of course, we can always have these conversations and continue to have a conversation about this as additional thoughts occur to you, more questions, but for the moment, perhaps one of your teammates would choose to help. Do either of you have questions?
Teammate: I have a thought, a question about whether it’s the voice of the ego that says there aren’t enough students, or “I’m not doing enough. I’m not helping enough.” That whole message of “not enough” doesn’t come from the part of oneself that really serves. Can you comment on that?
Samuel: The feelings about how many people would come, to use your example, is, in fact, an overlay by the ego, a judgment by the ego. But I would also suggest that how many people show up is part of a much larger plan. There are so many factors at work that you’re simply not aware of. So it is very difficult to say why an attendance at any particular event is the way it is. But at the same time, I would also suggest that it’s related to the energy that you put out there.
So as you are going into the offering, if you are projecting, to use my example, the feelings of being helpful, that you have something to offer, then others will resonate with that. Or those who are in that place who need that at the moment will find it and be drawn to you.
So in some way, it can also be a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, that if you are thinking from the perspective of limitation, then that is exactly what you’re going to get.
Teammate: Thank you.
Samuel: Very well then. I will leave you all this evening with my blessings and my feelings of helpfulness to all of you.
Teammate: [Laughs] Thank you!
Samuel: Farewell for now.
