“Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination.”–Rob Brezsney
In the movie, Groundhog Day, Bill Murray wakes up every morning to Cher belting out the lyrics of the popular 1965 hit, “I Got You, Babe.”
For much of the movie, the self-centered weatherman resists and cusses and hates the time loop he finds himself in.
Finally, he decides to try a different perspective, to open himself to the idea that maybe there’s something else at play. Maybe he’s not the axis around which the world revolves.
Nothing else changes—the same song, the same deejays, the same weather report wake him up each morning. But once he puts down his dukes and begins connecting to something outside himself, he notices everything is different—more alive, more loving.
When he decides to trust in the intelligence outside of himself, when he decides to stop fighting, drop his defenses, “put his little hand in mine….” as Cher sings, life shifts.
So I’d like to pose a little experiment. Here’s the hypothesis, “There is a peaceful, loving intelligence that’s way stronger than any judgment, doubt, anxiety I might feel. And trusting that is all I need do.”
Anxiety and all its insolent cousins arises in the left hemisphere of the brain, the part that calculates, measures, judges. According to British neuroscientist, Iain McGilchrist, the left brain doesn’t know what it’s talking about. It literally makes up stuff. It gives us fake directions for coping with life. Because our society is so left-brain oriented, we all turn to thinking (that scared, calculating left side of brain) to address our daily lives.
The left side comes in handy, but it also causes us to miss the magical reality in which we live. So to test the above hypothesis, I suggest making the decision each morning to trust that, behind the scenes, everything is being orchestrated by a power much greater than ourselves.
Think of those dot-to-dot puzzles we used to do as kids. When you begin, you have no idea what the picture is going to be. It could be an elephant or a lamp or Snoopy, for all you know. Your only instruction is to move to the next dot. One dot at a time.
You don’t have to figure out the whole picture. Or worry about where to go. You just trust that moving to the next dot is your only job.
And that’s enough.
So today and maybe for the next five days, choose to trust. Don’t figure your day out. Or think you have to plan everything. Just trust. The truth that surpasses all things will cheer and sing, “I Got You, Babe.”
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)
50 Responses
I choose to trust!
Pam, I love you! ❤️
Me, too! On both counts!!!
I need it your email. I feel drained by ending my relationship with my partner. I have to let go.
Letting go is a daily practice for me.
Love this! Facing diagnosis of some sort of eventual dementia. One step at a time. 🙂
One dot. One step! You got this!!
Thank You.
Thanks
Thank You. 🤩
You’re welcome!
My pleasure!
And thank YOU for your profuse praise!
Thank you. I love your perspective always
I try to focus on the perspective of the bigger thing! Always!
hi Pam,
Thank you so much for this post/email. I love Groundhog Day. It demonstrates human behavior so well and it has a happy ending, which is rare in movies these days. my very favorite affirmation of all times is by Paramahansa Yogananda. it goes like this: I go forth forward in perfect faith with the power of omnipresent good to bring me what I need at the time that I need it. This affirmation works wonders and it is very much like the dots that you just connect not knowing what will be next, but trusting that when you need what you need, it will come to you, one dot at a time. Pam thank you so much for being you. Love you to pieces Anna
I LOVE that quote from Paramahansa!
Pam, I moved into a mobile home in Jan 2012. I bought your books after I moved. I lived in El Cajon, CA in San Diego County. I did your experiments when I drove on Freeway 8.
Hope you’re also trying the trust experiment! Which can change EVERYTHING!
I trust that a fun and inspirational message will arrive from Pam Grout, whenever she is divinely guided to send one.
And each and every time, it makes me smile!
Speaking of smiling, I always LOVE your replies!
I think of your often, Pam, in a particular way – you seem to float through life. I am trusting much more than ever that everything will come, will get done, will be said. But, with you in my mind, life is reminding me to take it up yet another notch. Thank you and love to you, Noreen
Thanks, Noreen! Indeed I float except for when I sink from time to time. So grateful I can change where I place my attention!
Yes, Yessss, YESSSSSSS!!!
Love this-LOVE YOU!!!
Here’s to a couple more YESSES!!! And especially YES to love!!!
Sounds like a left hemisphere is a lot like chatgpt: makes stuff up, gives us fake directions for coping with life, doesn’t know what it’s talking about….
Agreed! ChatGPT was designed and shows us info from that stubborn ole’ left hemisphere!
Exactly what I needed to be reminded of! Thanks so much!!!
Me, too! I remind myself every morning!!!
If they remake Groundhog Day, so help me gawd! Anyway, that movie reminds us of a fabulous perpective and to remember that “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” You’re the bestest Pam! {{Hedgehugs}}
Indeed! So glad we’re not limited to what we always did!
And just like that, my day got so much better 😊 Thank You Pam, love you
And just like this–you made my day! Thank you and I love you, too!
Love you Pam 🐢
Love you, Andre!
I love this! 💕 Thank you Pam! I have wanted to respond to your last few posts but was in a similar funk for very similar reasons. You always make my day and all of ours better! 🤗 I will be traveling to Ireland soon with my hubby to trace my Irish roots and loved your photos and experiences there. ☘️Looking forward to traveling to the next dot tomorrow and choosing to trust for the next 5 days! 💫
Slainte! Which you’ll soon be saying a lot. It means cheers! Have a GROOVY, GLORIOUS, GALIVANTING GOOD time!
Pam, so many thanks. I asked the Universe for a solution to my blood pressure problem. I was hit 3 times in the next hour with belly breathing and brethwork. Then I clicked on your name to recommend one of your books to a friend and discovered I owended Jump start Your Motablism. WOW! In one week my blood pressure has dropped over 40 pionts.
Now that’s a GREAT story! Thanks, Judy!
Welcome back!
Always glad to be here!
Great post Pam! As one of my friends would say: “Coolidudes!” 😄 Great quote from Rob Brezsney too. And I love the idea of just trusting, knowing that the Coolest Dude There Is (aka The Universe or God or whatever you want to call The Truth of All Things) will catch us and sing “I got you babe!” Amen to that! 😍💃🎶
YAY! Always enjoy the wisdom of my wonderful Australian friend!
Love this! 🤍
Why thank you!!!
We are all different. Our lives are like roller coasters with highs and dips. What determines our individual happiness is if we dwell on the high side or the dip side. Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference.
Even better is deciding to enjoy the whole ride!
Many thanks for always sharing the good stuff with us, Pam. 💞
So much good stuff to share!
Hi, Pam!
What an awesome synchronicity as I have been struggling and ‘stuck’ working on my creative project. Every day has been the same. Wake up, sit at the computer, start drifting into the same left brain concerns, feel the joy and creative juice slowly drain out of me. Sleep, rinse, repeat. It means so much to have you remind me that I can stop making it all about myself which is paralyzing. All I need to do is take that next free, joyful step, then the next, then the next as the Universe reveals the next dot. Learning to trust more than control, one step at a time. Life doesn’t have to be a drag!
Much love <3
Another magical post that changed my day and perspective. Thank you Pam for your magical way with words and imagery!!! I always look forward to your posts! Peace and Blessings to you and 222!!!
It feels like you just read my mind….. Thank you always for your amazing inspirational messages.
So love your posts!!!!
Pam Thankyou very much 💖
I will try instead of people saying, yiu have to plan out your day, I’ll go 5his way and see what happens.