Being Unconditionally Okay

 When you are okay...it becomes the motive of action ...you want to express yourself, you want to fix what is wrong without wanting to be compensated...you are filled with love, joy all the time. In that state you want to express the beauty that you feel like an artist wants to paint. 

Michael Singer

While most of us are going around the planet saying, I am not okay! How can I be okay? or I am not okay and I have given up finding a way to be okay, Michael Singer reminds us,

There is a way of being okay unconditionally.

He tells us we are divine creations experiencing this Life through our human forms.  Hmm! If that is so, are we giving this divine creator, this infinite, timeless energy, or "God" something beautiful and amazing to experience by soaking in every momentary offering that unfolds in front of us and using it to create beautiful expressions of what is, that God can enjoy experiencing through us?   Or are we taking this infinite, Divine Essence down to some tiny slum in our mind that we call "my life"  saying, "This is all there is to see!"

I know what I tend to do. What about you?

I want to be unconditionally okay.  I want to paint beautiful works of art that express the beauty of this Life...but too often I am too busy taking God down to the slums. 

Unconditional Wellness: An Example

There is a big difference between conditional and unconditional wellness, right? I know I talked alot lately about "conditional wellness"-  the problem with succumbing to the human tendency towards striving to get to some condition, place and time other than this.  I compared it to an athletic pursuit aimed solely at getting to the podium.  Maybe, I didn't stress enough that not all athletic pursuit involves unhealthy striving. As long as we are embracing each moment training, practicing, performing as if it, itself, was the achievement than the sport is a beautiful expression of Life...something worthy for God to see the world through. We can take God out of the slum and into the "zone" or the "flow". 

 I watched a dude on Netflix climb a skyscraper yesterday.  For 12 years he thought about climbing that building. He visualized it; and he trained and strained to develop the endurance, strength and skills necessary to accomplish such a feat.  Was this unwholesome striving? Was this conditional or unconditional wellness?

It was unconditional because his well being was not dependent on getting his goal met.  He just wanted to climb for the sake of climbing.  He wanted to experience something different for the sake of experiencing.  Sure, he had to train to be able to do that but when I watched him training I could see that he enjoyed that too. His verbalized goal, I heard,  wasn't to get to the top...it was "to climb a skyscraper." Sure, he had to visualize some proverbial "end goal" before he began but he didn't stomp down all those moments that would take him there. He wasn't escaping each moment or running away from what is.  He was climbing into each moment, embracing reality and its challenges ( pain, wind, slippery glass and steel, etc).  He was embracing the suchness of Life. He was embracing each and every moment as he climbed.  Doing such a dangerous thing meant that he had to concentrate on every step along the way as if it was the only step.  He simply climbed one ledge at a time. He expressed to the commentators throughout the climb that he could not think about the summit up ahead. He could not think about the distance beneath him.  All he could think about was the step he was taking, the moment he was in. He was definitely in the moment and he seemed, by the expression on his face, to be truly appreciating it.

There was no striving, resistance, or effort observed in the actual climb either.  It literally looked like he was flowing up the building. He was in the flow, as he and others commented. defying gravity, defying fear, and defying human limitation.   It was beautiful effortless action...full of graceful, resistance-free movement...His climbing reminded me of the line from that Chinese poem, 

"Entering the forest, he does not disturb a blade of grass; Entering the water he does not make a ripple". 

It was as if he was dancing with the building instead of struggling against it. It was a beautiful, though terrifying, dance to watch.

One would expect a grand reaction once he reached the top and  achieved this major goal but his reaction did not change much from the one he expressed at the base of the building to the one he expressed at the top. It was all awesome...no moment better than the next. It was like his expression of accomplishment and "getting somewhere" was no different from one floor to the next. Throughout the climb, he would get to a certain point, turn and face the crowd with a huge smile and a wave.  Then he would stand on the edge of wherever he was, look about him, and comment on the "amazing view."  He was able to take the time to enjoy the view. Whether he knew it or not, he was giving God a unique and powerful view to experience as well each and every time, something very few humans could give. The outcome didn't inflate him, telling me that his being on that building wasn't about serving ego.  It was much deeper and at the same time much simpler than that.  He was experiencing and honoring Life and thereby doing what he was put on the planet to do...fully experience what it is like to be a human- who just happened to climb- in this world.

He was okay with being a human.  He wanted to express that okayness, that joy, that love through his art medium...climbing. He was expressing beauty for all of divine creation to see and experience through him. He may not call himself an evolved human ...but it was an awakened master I watched climbing that skyscraper. 

All is well. 

Michael A. Singer/Temple of the Universe/ Sounds True ( January 26, 2025) Why You Do What You Do: The True Path to Inner Freedom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME3eEbk1A7w