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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this... ? Because you are having it.

—Eckhart Tolle

Every one of our experiences is specific to us. Every single experience! Tolle knows this. So does the God of our understanding. The wisest philosophers throughout history would quickly agree too. What a profound idea. What a simple idea. And what a comforting idea when we lean in to it. It clearly means there is no reason to question any experience. Or to shrink from it. No reason to deny any experience either. Or doubt it. And certainly no reason to waste time categorizing our experiences as those we need versus those we don't. They all have made their visits as divinely orchestrated, at the right time, and in the company of the right teachers needed for each specific lesson. This is a statement you can take to the bank!

Are you currently happy? I surely hope so. Your past has delivered you to this point, an encounter with me, as a matter of fact, through the pages of this book, and it's my intent to help you squeeze understanding and joy from your past. I believe this will ready you for finding more joy in every lesson that lies just ahead.

And if you aren't happy right now, perhaps it's because you are feeling anxiety about the undetermined future. If you have forgotten that every person, every past experience, every past moment was “wearing” your name, you just might be wallowing in doubt about all future moments. Couple all of those feelings with entering your sixties or seventies, and you may be fretting that there is not much of the good life yet to live. But I say, on the contrary. Now we can really live. We are free from the uncertainties of the past.

Before getting bogged down in doubt, suspend any disbelief you might have about the necessity for each of your life experiences for a moment, and begin a list in your journal of a few significant experiences that have occurred in the last twenty or so years of your life. My point is for you to see how divinely orchestrated our experiences were and are, leading us from one to another, nary a coincidence among them.

After a list of ten or fifteen has come to mind, take each one and close your eyes, envisioning it as it was. In some, you will recall and relive the drama. In others, you may feel the angst or the sadness all over again. But purposefully they arrived, were absorbed, and then departed, readying us for whatever was to follow. Always readying us for the next encounter.

Surely, that format for our lives (i.e., the specificity of how events unfolded) won't change. But we can assume a more active role as co-creators of our future experiences, if that appeals to us. Let's dream.

How do you want your remaining years to look? What comes first to mind when you envision them?

How do you imagine a particular change might affect other people and ancillary experiences? What will your “picture” look like as it unfolds?

What would please you the most about the remaining decades of your life if you could manifest your most perfect picture of the future?

I want you to realize you have this power. You really do.

What's the first, next step on your agenda?

Rest in peace. Your heart's pure desire is headed your way.