The way I see it…

White Rabbits! It’s the first of the month again. These firsts come round really fast, don’t they?

I’m having a bit of a quiet time here in Blogland at the moment, so what I’m currently waffling about are thoughts that are coming to me as I type. I’ll soon get inspired ideas about what to write into one of my posts, but on these quiet times, I just tend to waffle on and see what actually ends up being written. Probably not the best way to keep a daily entry going, but at least it allows whatever is in my mind to escape through my fingertips. And the whole purpose of the blog is to get to know me, and understand myself, better. And if I can’t do that while typing any old stuff that just wants to get out, I can’t think of a better way to do it. Well, not yet, anyway!

I’ve done a small bit of research on the internet into why we say “White Rabbits” at the beginning of the month, and it is all to do with good luck for the forthcoming month, apparently. I always say ‘white rabbits’ on the first, but not necessarily first thing. Sometimes I have no idea of the date until much later in the day. Sometimes, I don’t even have a clue as to what day it is, even though I remember the day before being the day it was… random, I know. Anyway, from what I have gleamed from the internet, if you say ‘white rabbits’ first thing in the morning on the first day of the month it will bring good luck. Whether it brings good luck to yourself, or whoever you say it to, I’m not to sure. I would presume it would be to yourself, but in that case why do we wish other people “White Rabbits” when we meet them? They should have wished it to themselves first thing in the morning anyway. Unless they didn’t realise it was the first of the month either.

Now then, luck is a funny old thing, isn’t it? It’s always nice when you hear of someone’s good fortune, or have a little good fortune yourself, but why does it happen? When someone really really wants something, and they get it, is that luck? Are they lucky enough to get it, or have they brought it to themselves via the powers of the universe?

There’s many a tale about people who have been late for something, only to learn that if they weren’t late they would have been involved in a nasty incident. Is this luck? It can’t be good timing, because they were late to start off with! Something stopped them from doing their usual thing on that particular occasion, but what made them late? It was obviously something they were doing, so could they have tapped into the powers of the universe and subconsciously been aware that they had to be late that day?

The odd thing about thinking this way, about thinking that we bring everything to ourselves, starts a major argument between two camps. Those camps are the ‘yes we do’ and the ‘no we don’t’ camps. I can see the reasons for the argument; what about the bad things that happen? The bad luck. The addictions. The misfortune that seems to spiral out of control – how can anyone want to bring those kind of things into their lives?

The way I see it is that we do. We bring everything into our lives as soon as we even think about it. Even if someone else mentions something that we were completely unaware of, it’s now in our thoughts. It’s now in our lives.

I don’t know the full ins and outs of how the universe works. I’ve read lots and lots of books on how we are influenced, the Law of Attraction, our thoughts etcetera, but these books are only articles written by other people – they are writing their views, and it is up to us to believe what we want to believe. I may not agree with someone’s viewpoint, but it doesn’t mean to say they are wrong. It also doesn’t mean to say that I am right when I think they’re wrong either.

The theory that I feel most comfortable with is the one that we bring everything to ourselves. Good or bad. That way, I have some control over what is going on in my life. I may not be able to change what is happening to me right now, but I can change the way I think about it. I love it when things ‘go my way’ and don’t dwell on things that don’t seem to. I keep focussed on the good aspects of everything, even the things I have to moan about. I do like a good moan like the rest of society, but I try to keep my moaning to a minimum and try to make myself feel more positive, to take my attention away from the thing that I am moaning about. After all, I brought it into my life anyway. It comes full circle.

Everything comes from within. That’s a phrase I keep hearing lately, in completely different scenarios. When I had my aura read the other day, I was told that my aura would change colour when I change what I am doing. I have to make that change. That starts from within me, even though my aura is external.

As Above so Below. As Within so Without.

The world is a big place. The universe is even bigger. Our perception of everything always comes from within.