The Today Manual

People in all walks of life use tools to accomplish certain tasks.  Teachers use blackboards, programmers use computers, carpenters use levels, doctors use stethoscopes, mechanics use wrenches, engineers used slide rules, manufacturers use robots, writers use pens, artists use brushes, and dentists use drills.  While the knowledge to perform each task is in their heads, their ability to perform their jobs is reliant on the use of specific tools.  Some tools help build or create, while others help to disassemble, repair, mend, or fix something.  No matter what the profession all users keep their tools at their finger tips, ready and on the spot. 

A dentist may know that a patient’s tooth has decay and is in need of a filling, but all the education and knowledge in the world does not get the job done. It takes tools such as novacaine, gauze, suction, and a drill.  Without a drill the dentist cannot remove the decay and fill the tooth.  Of course the dentist could pull the tooth, but that too requires an extraction device, a different tool. 

As I mentioned in an earlier message your task is to let go of the past so that you can live today.  Your intention and knowledge alone are not enough for you to release your past.  As with all tasks you need to work with and apply the right the tools.  
 
Intellectually you may know of your need to let go of the past, the internal decay that is rotting your daily life.  You wish to extricate all the hurts of the past and fill the hole with the wonder of today.   But somehow you cannot get a hold of what it is that is causing you so much pain.  You have tried deadening the pain of the past, using novacaine so to speak, by keeping busy, trying to figure out why the hurt happened, what you could have done differently, and maybe making excuses.  But no matter what and how frequent your attempts the past continues to impact your life today.

Do you believe that a dentist can deaden, remove the decay and refill a tooth merely by his mind, his intention?  Would a dentist, or any other tradesman, set up shop in an empty space, wait for clients and then “intend” the tooth filled, the patient well, the car fixed, the software program designed, the picture painted, the bridge built, or the book written.  It takes more than intention and knowledge to accomplish any task.  It requires selecting the correct tools for the task and then using them.  It takes action.  

To perform any task it takes both intention and the right tools.  Without intention even the right and most advanced tools will not work.  Likewise, without the correct tools the greatest of intentions cannot accomplish a task.  

I do not know the reasons behind your decision to release the past, but the fact that you are reading this manual tells me you have the desire, the intention to let go.  But what is your desire based on?  Why do you want to release the past?  Are you tired of thinking and reliving the experience?  Are the memories painful, do they consume your thoughts and feelings?  Do you want to move on and heal?  Are you tired of the energy it takes to keep the past alive?  Why now?  Do you want to live the life of your dreams?  What has finally convinced you it is time to let go of your past and move on?  Just what is your intention, your desire?

Spend time answering these questions.  Go deep; the answers are within you.  Write down your responses, possibly in a journal.  What comes up and out of you is for your eyes only, so do not be afraid to be honest and forthright.  This is all about you, no one else.  Set aside time each day to be with yourself, understanding what it is you want to let go of, what you want out of life, and how you want to live each new today.  Set your intention; know what it is you want.

I will begin to identify and describe the specific tools in my next message.

Blessings for TODAY, Jeannine