A curious aspect of intuitive living is the ability to work behind the scenes.  I sometimes imagine our lives are a big production play, where great action, challenges and struggles take place center stage.  The phrase “what you see is what you get,” confirms the concept that our lives are only what they appear to be and nothing more.  But if our lives are like a stage production, what happens behind the scenes?  Behind the curtain is all the intricate workings of the momentum of the play: the lights, the stage directions, and the underlying script.  So what materializes if you allow yourself to understand that there is an opportunity to make changes backstage?

An aspect of intuitive work that continues to leave me awestruck is the power we all have to work with unseen elements of our current life.  For instance, we may be struggling with a co-worker or family member.  In the past we walk toward it and confront it head on through dialogue and possible heated exchanges.  Initially, there may be a truce and the tension breaks but two months later you are back in the same boat, with the same struggle.  Or maybe you are trying to create the perfect financial opportunities by going out and pounding the pavement only to find yourself in the same meaningless work you had before.

Staying with the stage analogy, nothing has changed behind the scenes: the lighting and stage directions are the same.  You find another job with different characters, but you face the same difficult dynamics.  What happens if you ask your self to go back stage?  This could happen through visualizations, it may be through actively working with your dreams, or through creative exploration.  For example, you do some journaling around employment and notice it feels sluggish and uninspired.  This is valuable information and from this place you have potential to create change.  Ask energy to build around new work opportunities by envisioning money coming from a place where you are inspired and feel pleasure.  Use affirmations, visualizations, prayers, meditation, journaling and anything else to help you reestablish impulsion to reenergize what you are working to create.  Take your time with this process; you may have to do this behind the scene for months on end before you are ready to step back on stage.

Working behind the scenes asks us to step out of frustrating roles and open to finding new approaches.  Even if going backstage is initially too challenging, just let go and surrender your stance and see what happens.  The fun thing about working behind the scenes is recognizing you can create what you want: peace, joy, prosperity and just a calm understanding more readily than trying to find it outside yourself.  Imagine living your life and being the director and the actor.