Switch to a Better Channel! by Keith Varnum

Peril, catastrophe and disaster.

These are our friends, allies and mentors.

Appearing as enemies on the surface, these seeming threats are
our most helpful teachers on our Earth adventure. These apparent
foes repeatedly demonstrate how we humans have awesome power over
our fate and circumstances in life.

When faced with an expected outcome we don't like, we have an
option. We can open to an alternative scenario, another
framework, a different set of rules. I jokingly call this handy
ploy "switching channels."

I discovered that we all have the ability to change the channel
or perspective from which we are viewing-and creating!-our
Earthvision series. When the plot line goes from situation comedy
to melodramatic soap opera, we can do something about it!

We can simply let go of our old way of viewing the world and
allow a fresh point of view to emerge. When we decide to turn the
dial, we find ourselves shifted into a new reality-a different
station with a new story line that has a much better ending!

Grace to the Rescue

I first noticed this saving gift of grace when I was a kid. I've
always enjoyed the thrill and challenge of dangerous situations.

On the ice rink, I discovered that if I completely collapsed into
a fall, I came out unscathed. Caught in a precarious position
when tackled on the football field, I went with the force of the
hit to tumble out of harm's way. When in a sharp skid while
driving, I embraced the skid by turning directly into it to
straighten the car. When my feet slipped on a rocky trail, I went
with the twist or slide and landed-like a cat-upright and stable.
Like the proverbial drunk falling safely down the staircase, I
used to sled down a steep set of wooden stairs on a makeshift
cardboard toboggan, deliberately crashing at the bottom and never
getting hurt.

I practiced the knack of letting go in everyday situations, so
that I was able to successfully apply the skill in much more
urgent and crucial predicaments.

The Alchemy of Abandonment

As a teenager, the art of "abandonment to the moment" saved my
neck in several near-miss car encounters. Attempting to pass a
vehicle on the winding mountain roads of my home state of
Pennsylvania, I found myself on several occasions eyeball-to-
eyeball with the driver of an oncoming auto. With both cars going
sixty miles per hour, my next stop in five feet and two seconds
was the Pearly Gates. Each time, I instinctively let go-of the
steering wheel, my projected scenario and my programmed ideas of
physics. Voila! I ended up rattled but untouched on the side of
the road.

When Up Against the Wall, Choose Magic

In my young twenties, as a professional journalist covering
floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, accidents and assorted
disasters, I observed this miraculous dynamic of super-natural
powers on countless occasions. When confronted with a choice
between the dire prognosis of their current belief system and an
unknown outcome if they let go of those beliefs, people will
often choose to let go. They release their preconceptions of how
the physical universe works. They let go of their need to have
events fit their expectations of cause and effect. The reward for
such surrender of one's rigid beliefs and expectations is a much
preferable outcome-in fact, a miracle-or, at least, what we call
a miracle: an occurrence outside our box, our paradigm, beyond
what we think or believe is possible.

Your Beliefs, or Your Life!

I've witnessed people lifting two-ton trucks, ripping open steel
elevator doors, and performing medical procedures they had no way
of knowing how to conduct. How? By choosing to go with an unknown
future instead of a known past. When a person's own life, or the
well-being of another, is at stake, people often decide to drop
the limitations taught by our culture.

When it's dramatically obvious that a known past will lead to a
known-but fatal-future, people will often choose to give up their
familiar, current beliefs and allow something fresh and new to
occur.

There Is No Quota on Miracles

As a young journalist, a light bulb lit up inside my head: If we
can tap these super-normal abilities in a crisis, why can't we
access these extraordinary powers at will, whenever we want? Thus
began my lifelong quest for the Holy Grail-the sacred vessel that
holds the nectar of the gods, the knowledge of how to recapture
our true nature of grace.

(c)2004, Keith Varnum. All rights in all media reserved.

Drawing from the wisdom of native and ancient spiritual
traditions, Keith Varnum shares his 30 years of practical success
as an author, personal coach, acupuncturist, filmmaker, radio
host, restaurateur, vision quest guide and international seminar
leader with "The Dream Workshops." Keith helps people get the
love, money and health they want with his free Prosperity Ezine,
free Empowerment Tape and free Coaching at
http://www.TheDream.com.