Bad Karma - No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

I have returned from a fabulous trip to lovely Albuquerque, NM, but I had an adventure on the way there that I would like to vent about.

Heading north out of Phoenix on Friday afternoon I had one of those annoying experiences that I'm sure anyone who drives in Arizona has shared.  In the right hand lane, traveling just over 75 mph, I caught up to a truck who was clearly not going 75 mph and had not been for some time.  I moved left to pass said truck.  Said truck immediately corrected the situation by accelerating to the same speed I was traveling. (The infamous, "you can't pass me because I'm not going slow" maneuver.)

So there we were, essentially corner to corner, but with perhaps half a car length between us in the forward direction.  I held my position, because my experience has been that people who speed up so as not to be passed usually forget that they sped up simply to foil someone else, and drop down to their original speed in a matter of moments.

This was the situation when I saw in my rear view mirror that there was another truck approaching.  I waited a little further but when truck #1 did not slow back down, I thought it would be considerate to move back over behind truck #1 so that truck #2 would not be boxed in when he caught up to us.  You know, since we were going the same speed in different lanes.

Truck #2 caught up to us and moved left.  He pulled up alongside my car and matched our speed.  As soon as truck #2 was in position, truck #1 slowed back down.  Of course.  But... so did truck #2.  I was understandably frustrated by this.  We were the only three people for miles, for heaven's sake, did we really need to be going slower than the speed limit all within inches of each other?  I turned and glared at the driver, who looked straight ahead without flinching.  Fine.

Truck #2 then decided to increase speed by approximately 1 mph.  As soon as the cab of his truck had inched past the windshield of my car, he MOVED OVER into my lane.  Now I'm sure that he was bluffing, because I'm sure that he knew perfectly well I was there, having put me there himself, but on a curving mountain road at somewhere near 70 mph is it prudent and safe to assume that someone is bluffing and won't collide with you?  It is not.  I did the predictable, stomped on the brake, leaned on the horn and gave voice to some very unladylike phrases.

Truck #2 pretended not to notice and continued to move over until he was behind truck #1, who had slowed down even further when he heard the honking.  As soon as he was all the way right and I was all the way behind him, truck #2 moved left again and resumed his original speed.

There had been enough time for me to notice the bumper stickers on this truck - "Once a Marine, Always a Marine", "Proud Veteran of the U. S. Marine Corps", etc.  But not time enough for me to get the license plate number.  So I caught up to our esteemed Marine Veteran just long enough to get a good view of the number.  It was an AZ Veterans plate, 0R783 (maybe OR783).

First of all, how proud the armed forces must be to have someone like that representing them to the general public.  Second of all, as much as I would have liked to stalk him to his destination and inflict some sort of damage, I did recognize the opportunity to leave his rude response to my courteous action to the karma police.  Go get 'im, karma police.

For crying out loud.
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Synchronicity

Has anyone ever noticed the way sometimes things all seem to fall into place easily for everyone involved?  What?  You've all noticed that?  Well go figure!

That unsettled feeling left for a while, but it's back.  Things are changing.  At least it seems like they're changing.  Something is happening, anyway, and it isn't just me.  When a coworker says, "things are strange lately" the day after a friend says that the ground is shifting, in the same week that I've had my own symptoms... well, it seems fair to say that we birds of a feather are experiencing something out of the ordinary.

Not just out of the ordinary - positively out of the ordinary!  It seems to grow a little brighter.

Meanwhile, back on the ground... I had a dream.  In the dream my mind seemed to be quite clearly telling me something.  And so I have done what I encourage so many other people to do and booked an appointment with a hypnotist.  You see, as a hypnotherapist, I have no excuse for any qualms I may be feeling - I know them for what they are: fear of change.  But really, what else is there but change? Fearing it doesn't stop it.  So in about 10 days I will take a deep breath and take my own advice.

As soon as I had that appointment set up, someone made an appointment with me.  Coincidence?  Perhaps....

Soul Groups

Lately I have been thinking about the nature of soul groups.  My short story book talks about my own group, and that has of course been the extent of my own knowledge.  Recently I was in contact with someone who has a very different type of soul group to talk about.  And there are books.  Every group seems a little different, and yet we are all groups.

My group has been through, we believe, many lifetimes together.  We have a definite structure, we each have a role to fill.  But in this lifetime we are not organized as we have been in other lives.  Nevertheless, we have a shared mission of healing.  We heal as individuals and we also heal as a group.  We do this by learning how to ground the new vibration.

There seems to be an interesting balance to be achieved between the individual and the group.  I, for one, notice when the support from other group members is withdrawn from my own path.  Regardless of whether I feel the path is that of our group, there comes always a point at which the other members decline to participate

What of other groups? Do they experience the same fluctuation? I suppose that they do.  Some deep inner knowing tells me that other groups fare as we fare.  Bring in the vibration, ground it in living it, support and don't support each other.

A group, loosely.

Build It!

No more than five minutes after I clicked the button that made me an ordained minister, there was literally someone knocking on my door who needed a wedding officiant.  As soon as I had a brick and mortar office to use for hypnosis and reiki, people started calling for appointments.  Within weeks of publishing the first short story book about past lives and soul groups I was introduced to someone who might need the knowledge I feel prompted to share.

I've always heard that if you build it, they will come.  Now I have evidence of that and I am encouraged to keep building.  I am also encouraged to pass on the word - whatever your dream is, build it!  They will come!

Only One of Me

So much to do, and only one of me!  Today I got my new glam hair style.  I looked at houses, napped, talked with friends, and should be sleeping instead of typing.  :-)

Now that I finally have a decent office space for my hypnosis practice it strikes me that I just might need to organize my hypnosis resources, so I've been doing that.  Wow I have a lot of reference material.  Which means, extra wow, I have been through a lot of training.  So many interesting things can be done with hypnosis - I want to specialize in all of them!

My new certificates from the American Board of Hypnotherapists and the National Guild of Hypnotists have arrived and are ready to go in frames for display at the office.  But I haven't yet updated my web site to include the link to the paper copy of the book at CreateSpace.

So much to do... and all of it so interesting and entertaining.  Life is good.  :-)