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“Identities and opinions are the least interesting parts of people.”—Maria Popova

So I just returned home from one of my Possibility Posses (P.P.), checked my email and saw a comment on last week’s blog post that said something to the effect of “so grateful you keep writing these.”

I took that as a sign to share a little something we discussed today.

Possibility posses, far as I’m concerned, are non-negotiable. The important part isn’t so much what we say, but the frequency we create by being together, by focusing on a different narrative. Someone last week even mentioned that the story he was about to share wasn’t as important as the energetic field he intended to create.

I always think of Jill Boelte Taylor’s Ted Talk about the stroke that shut down the left hemisphere of her brain. That’s the logical, conceptual, mathematical part of our brains. While that part wasn’t online, she looked at her hands and saw, not the flesh and bone and fingers we normally associate with hands, but two intermingled clouds of energy.

So the field or the “cloud of energy” to which we commit is one of upliftment and possibility, of a story beyond what we’re often enmeshed with in our culture.

Are we really these bodies? Or are we conjoining fields of energy, fields that we, by our very presence, can use to reach towards light and love or what I like to call, the way things really are.

I know it’s a popular sentiment in the self-help arena to figure things out and fix things with our minds. But I’ve noticed the mind, more often than not, gets in the way.

I compare thoughts, those fields of energy dispensed by the right side of our brains, to birds. Yes, that purple-bellied, green-eyed warbler may still be flying around your yard.

But if you don’t put seed in the bird feeder, it’ll soon fly away. In other words, if you keep putting the same suet out for the same old thoughts, be it thoughts about money or your childhood or whatever else keeps squawking around your awareness, it will continue to vie for your attention and darken your cloud of energy.

So that’s why I only feed “birds” that feel good and why I continue to show up at my possibility posses whenever I can.

Have a gorgeous day, friends.

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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)