Keep the
Queen Safe—BUT BEND!
No, I’m not in danger! This isn’t about me or any other
gay man. The queen I refer to is different.
Frank Marshall was the world’s chess champion for a record
27 years from 1909 to 1936. He won his first world championship by breaking one
hard-fast rule in chess: “Protect your queen at all costs!” He placed his queen
in a venerable position as three different chess pieces could capture her.
However, former champion S. Levitsky was caught in a predicament. When he
captured Marshall’s queen, he ended up in checkmate. Marshall sacrificed the
queen to win the game.
So, the interesting phenomena here is that living outside
the box of rules brought a new champion to life. How often to do we live by
life’s lofty rulebook, only to find that we are stuck in a changeless rut with
no place but a standstill?
Every day we get the opportunity to invite new thought,
new ideas, new opportunities into our lives. However, if we live in a box of narrow
rules, most of these ideas and paths may appear to be like a tree branch
growing toward a shadow, instead of the sun. It reaches out, only to die
quickly from no light.
I invite you today to take a leap of faith into new and
innovative thought. Remember, all that our mind can conceive, we can manifest
in our lives. The change is first in our minds, not in some pedantic rule.
This morning I awoke with the intent to get my battery
changed. I had it assessed at Auto Zone on Saturday. I was told that it was
bad. I had bought the battery at Auto Zone with a two-year guarantee. The
battery was only a year old. I didn’t have time to get the work done on
Saturday, so I waited until my day off.
When I got to the store, the manager told me that Auto
Zone no longer replaces batteries that are in the trunk, as in some older BMWs
like mine. So, I was in the predicament of having to shift my thinking outside
the box. I asked the manager how to get my money back for a bad battery, if he
couldn’t work on it.
The result was a serviceman from the store checking the
battery again and discovering the battery was 90% charged and the alternator
was better than fine. After describing the hesitation when I started it, the
serviceman asked me to turn on the car. Of course, there was no hesitation.
I then assumed that the serviceman moved something around
on the battery node that was not secure, making the car work perfectly now. I
left feeling fine and glad I didn’t have to invest anymore time or money in the
project. However, three minutes later, I checked my rearview mirror to find
blue police car lights spinning behind me.
I pulled over, asked the officer why he had stopped me. He
exclaimed that I didn’t make a complete stop at the last stop sign. I
apologized as I handed him my license. I told him I thought I had made a
complete stop. As he went back to his car, I prayed that I wouldn’t get a
ticket. Low and behold, he just gave me a warning.
I came back home partially perplexed. What was the purpose
of this odd morning’s affairs? Why did I wake up early on my day off to find I
had no battery problem and get stopped by a policeman?
The truth is that I have no idea, yet, why any of this
happened. I know that I followed the path of no resistance and did what my
heart led me to do. This is the best we can do most days. However, I’m likely
to believe that all things that happened had a purpose. Like the female praying
mantis consuming its mate to create new life, I’m just not sure of the reason.
But I do believe one exists. I don’t have to know all the answers to be in
control of my life. I simply have to bend into life and step forward.
If you can live without needing to control every aspect of
life—the cars around you, the people you work with, the children pulling at
your leg—you probably will amend your old way of thinking to believe that God
simply has a divine purpose for you no matter where you end up.
My only rule in life today is to be ready and prepared for
whatever God throws my way. So, there is no room for complacency in your life.
Simply set a course, follow it, and if something throws you a curve, BEND!
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Below is information that I will be sharing for about a
month, as not every person on my list reads the blog every day. If you have
already read it, just skip over it. Thanks for understanding.
A
Year to CLEAR Challenge:
(Please Know: You Can Join Us At Any Point in the Year
Challenge.)
The masses search outward for things that qualify them as a
person, but I always go inward for that which quantifies me for greatness. At
twenty-five I preached on street corners in NYC as an in-the-closet Pentecostal
minister. One day I heard a still small voice say, ‘God cannot be contained in a
book or a law or even in a religion. Dig deeper, reach further to find me, and
you will find your authentic Self.’”
A Year to CLEAR Challenge!
The acronym CLEAR
stands for (Compassionate, Loving,
Enthusiastic, And Relationship-Ready). The goal of this project is to
engulf readers in a weekly study that will transform them by removing blocks,
promote self-growth, and give them wings to fly freely into daily life. Each
week, by going to BoSebastian.com and choosing the Year to CLEAR Challenge tab,
a new challenge or thought to provoke conversation, growth, and group
functionality.
My vision is to make Finding Authentic You the book to
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growth—spiritually, mentally, and physically.
As a yoga teacher and student of the Ayurvedic tradition, I bring
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The combination of all three in one book with an interactive
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The One-Year Approach to Change
No one believes he or she can change overnight. But success in
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us in nature. Finding Authentic You offers a gradual change perspective,
looking at the triune aspects of change as in yoga: Body, Mind and Spirit.
Accessing the
ability to change and finding
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getting to the “observer mind.”
In this frontal cortex of the brain we find the anatomy of
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The workings of Hypnosis, NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming) and EMDR (Eye
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Every aspect of FINDING AUTHENTIC YOU fulfills this
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Step 1: Recognize That Change is Inevitable
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