The Vortex – Relationships and the Law of Attraction

As I mentioned in my last blog, I’ve started reading “The Vortex” by Esther and Jerry Hicks.  The very first paragraph of the very first chapter really grabbed my attention.  It’s not often that a book does this; I usually have to get a little ways in.  Because of the powerful beginning, I’m really looking forward to this book.  I’ll share with you the first paragraph.

Your life is supposed to feel good to you.

Before your birth, you knew that the primary component of your physical experience that would offer the greatest value for your personal and collective expansion and joy would be the component of the relationships that you would experience with each other.  It was your plan to relish the diversity of your relationships and choose from them the details that would make up your creations – and here you are.

The first sentence seems to me a universal truth.  Your life is supposed to feel good.  Even that bad spots just give you perspective so the good can feel that much better.  It’s such a simple yet powerful way to begin a book.  Then the author follows up the first sentence by discussing the time before your birth; I have seen very few books discuss the time before birth.  It seems to me that would be a pretty important time, at least for me in my current lifetime.

The author reveals that we are predestined to participate in relationships.  Of course we are, why else create a male and female?  If we weren’t meant for relationships, I’m sure the Creator could have figured a way for us to reproduce without a partner.  But he didn’t, he created us as man and woman, so that we could enter into relationships.  Then, beyond that, most humans live in some type of social grouping; cities, towns, tribes, etc.  Our experience here on this planet we call home, is meant to include social interaction and relationships.  Given this, we must assume that our decision to enter this life included a decision on who our parents would be, who our friends would be, and what people we would meet to work with, play with, and form relationships with.  It’s such a splendid idea and makes a lot of sense to me.

Then skipping down a couple of paragraphs, another powerful one captured my attention.

There was nothing in your plan about being here that included struggle or hardship.  You did not believe that you were coming into physical form to right past wrongs, or to fix a broken world, or even to evolve (in the sense that you were currently lacking something).  Instead, you knew this physical experience would be an environment that would provide a balance of contrast from which you would personally make increasingly improved choices that would add to your own expansion as well as to the collective expansion of All-That-Is.  You knew that this world of contrast would induce in you the expansion that literally puts the Eternalness into Eternity; and you appreciation for the contrasting environment on planet Earth was enormous, for you understood that contrast is the basis of expansion, and that the expansion would be joyous – and here you are.

Another power paragraph discussing our purpose for being here.  We are looking for struggle or hardship (although sometimes we end up with it.)  We’re not here to right past wrongs.  If that were the case, we would come here with the knowledge of those past wrongs.  What purpose could be served by writing past wrongs or karma of which we have no knowledge?  Surely if we had a wrong to right, we would come into a new incarnation with some knowledge of this past wrong.

To fix a broken world?  This would assume the world is broken to begin with, and why would the Creator make a broken world.  He wouldn’t, and since he didn’t create it broken, why would any one of us, from now and back in time to the first humans, have anything to fix?  Not only that, I’m not sure any one of us has the capacity to fix an entire planet.

Instead, we are in a world of balance and contrast.  We make increasingly improved choices to contribute to our own expansion as well as the expansion of others.  I especially like the closing to this paragraph, contrast is the basis for expansion, and the expansion would be joyous.  Again reaffirming that life is supposed to feel good.

I’ve only made it a short way through the first chapter, but felt I had to share some of what I have read so far.  The book will continue on to discuss relationships and the law of attraction.  I look forward to reading the rest of The Vortex, and I’ll share some more thoughts if I hit any more great chapters, and/or when I get through the entire book.

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