Getting Yourself out of the Way

Published in Living Now Magazine Sept 2012

“You choose to create your reality every single day and every single moment. Burn the past daily for it is gone and the only thing that lingers is the stories.”

Many times throughout my life I’ve heard people say “Get yourself out of the way you are your own worst enemy” but I never really understood what that meant and when pressed none of those who said it could explain it to me.

Of late I have found myself repeating this phrase to others so, not wanting to be a hypocrite, here is my attempt to explain the meaning.

I think we must begin with a few basic premises upon which to build meaning. So, beginning with Quantum Physics – the Universe began with a big bang and hence all that is in the Universe now is linked together as one via a Quantum Field. In Quantum Physics lingo this is known as entanglement – from a spiritual perspective one might say ‘All is one’.

The second premise is that as the Universe is always expanding. It has a tendency towards more complexity and more energy (see t…