In response to the story of the bird who never looked up to see the feeder hanging over his head, a friend told me a story of a dog she knew. The dog’s owner liked to put popcorn on the floor for it when it wasn’t looking. As a result the dog spent his whole life looking down hoping to run across more popcorn.

It’s easy to see how the dog’s point of view had been programmed to think that food appeared randomly on the floor so best to keep its head down. And of course since there was nothing the dog could do to make the popcorn appear, hope was what kept him looking.

Don’t we do the same thing? Aren’t we like that dog when we continue to look for what we need to live a productive abundant life someplace where at least once before we discovered some form of abundance? We continue to look for and expect supply to appear because of a style of life, a familiar kind of job, or perhaps a lucky break. The obsession with lotteries and other forms of luck is really just looking for popcorn on the floor. This same friend calls this type of thinking “magical thinking,” which of course it is.

The popcorn never came from the floor, anymore than our abundance comes from looking down. And it certainly doesn’t come from “hoping” that if we keep looking in the same place where supply once appeared, it will magically appear there again.

We have become blinded to the fact that we are spiritual beings who are free from hunting for supply, as it is contained within our being. The only place we need to “look” for supply is within. This is using the Science of Right Thinking. Knowing that what “we perceive to be reality magnifies” we can discipline ourselves to think within the Reality of consciousness of only One supplier––that of Divine Love or Infinite Mind. This point-of-view change of perception will shift us within––allowing us to perceive the supply that has been there all along.

However, like the dog we have been hypnotized by the worldview that supply comes from without and we have little or no control over its appearance. Even when supply is abundant, it is often just because we have become good at hunting for and finding “popcorn.”

But this human view of supply is a dangerous resemblance to Truth, as it keeps us content to stay hypnotized. Eventually “luck” runs out and the popcorn hunt begins again. Staying in the worldview we find ourselves chasing our tail, sometimes catching it, sometimes not.

To break free of the worldview we must choose a radically different point of view. But, we cannot just “say” it, we must decide to live it and think it in every moment to break the spell of limitation. It’s simple to speak of the abundance of Divine Love. It is difficult to continually see, think and live only in that point of view, but it can be done and the “reward” is freedom.

I was walking home after a snowstorm wondering if the short cut I always take would be passable. When I reached the shortcut it was with gratitude that I realized there were footprints already in the snow, stamping it down so that I could make it through. And then I realized that as I walked on top of their footprints, I added to the easier passage for the next person.

In the same way, as each of us breaks the hypnotic spell called “human life” it makes it easier for the next. Each step counts. Each perception shift breaks the spell.

To the bird, the dog, and ourselves we can say “Look up, not down, for your fields are already white for the harvest; and gather the harvest by mental, not material processes.” *

Take from Beca’s ezine. For more of Beca’s wisdom, please visit her site at: http://www.theshift.com
*Quote from: “Unity of Good” by Mary Baker Eddy