Are You Good Enough? By Ross Bishop

LIFE is not what you have taken it to be. God created LIFE as a workshop so that you could realize that you were worthy, freeing you from living in fear, anxiety, and longing. This is a unique learning environment with a remarkable curriculum and an unconventional learning process. Nothing about the process is accidental. Nothing is random.

Another way to say this is that you have come to Earth to learn to live in peace and harmony. Learning to live in harmony requires that you remain compassionate, no matter what. And the secret to staying centered is a belief in self. In psychological terms, this is self-acceptance, but on a scale that is off the charts. That is the challenge that life presents.

The way LIFE works is that amongst the 50,000 thoughts you have each day, most of them are lies. They have to be. You see, you are not ready to accept the truth about who you are. So to overcome your resistance, the universe fills the void with “learning opportunities,” i.e. “You’re not good enough.” “Something’s wrong with you!” “You’re not lovable.” . . . that sort of thing. As I say, these things cannot possibly be true, but they will cause you difficulties until you eventually see through them and discard them for the truth. That’s how the process works.

You don’t realize it, but each step of your life process has been carefully designed to nudge you to find your way home. You are being helped to find the place where your truth and happiness reside. It is a bumpy path because we resist making changes and also because we primarily learn from our mistakes. Do something right, and you don’t learn much. But screw up, and all hell breaks loose! So the system has been created so that you stumble just enough to challenge your limiting beliefs. And the more you resist, the more difficult the path will be.

One of the other problems we have is that God could not just give us the truth because that would have violated our free will. So He has given us the myth of choice. In the moment, you can make choices - to decide for yourself - that you are worthy and lovable. But over the long term, your fate has been decided. There is only one place you can go. But in the interim, you are free to make your life a living hell, should you choose to. In any case, in the interim, you’ll have this voice telling you that “You’re not OK,” “Your ’re not good enough,” etc., etc.

And at some level, you know this is a smokescreen. You act on your feelings, while being conflicted between them and the truth, which you feel at a deep level. You know you are worthy, but you don’t really feel it. You can’t. Not until you can fully accept the truth.

Take a minute and write down some of your beliefs about yourself — do an inventory. What do you think of yourself? Where do you hold back? Where do you go when your boundaries are pushed? Don’t just think about it, take a minute and do it! None of those things reflects who you truly are. They just mirror where you are in your process.

I want to offer you a method that will help you connect with the truth about who you really are. It can serve as an anchor that you can use whenever you have doubts about yourself. In doing this, you will shake up your established patterns, and they probably won’t give up easily, but since everything exists to help bring you home, what we are really talking about here is your conditioned reluctance.

The method I want to show you will give you a direct link to The Creator. You just haven’t been taught to use it yet. Why? I can only speculate. Perhaps our species hasn’t sufficiently developed spiritually. And as you will also learn, this process is easy to contaminate with your thoughts, so it may be that the masses haven’t been ready to accept this. So, what I offer may be ahead of its time. What I can tell you for sure is that I have been teaching this for years with universally remarkable results.

The steps are simple, but we like to overcomplicate important things. This practice is a little easier if you have a working relationship with your inner child, but you can do it without; it’s just a little harder that way.

First, find a quiet space where you won’t be disturbed for a while. Close your eyes and shift your attention to the top of your head. There is a conduit there (we call them chakras), that streams straight upward. When you feel that stream, then ask to be taken to meet with The Creator. In response, you will feel your consciousness rise upwards.

Note: This is the place where interfering voices (we call them dark energies) try to distract and interfere with what you are trying to do. When you encounter interfering energies, that tells you that your negative beliefs are being triggered. You really don’t want these energies in your life. These are the same voices that tell you are unworthy or unlovable.

If you contact anything that seems “off” or anything that does not seem totally sincere, or seems shallow or “thin,” tell it to leave. The voices may try to confuse the situation, and these guys are good! But if you look carefully, you will find their energy has a hollow quality. Don’t be surprised if you encounter several interfering energies. Stay with it and try not to get distracted - because that’s what they want. If it gets to be too much, open your eyes and take a short break. Then resume.

Being aware of them is actually a gift because it brings their existence and your resistance into your awareness, and then you can deal with both. But that is a whole other subject for another discussion. For the moment, send them out. Tell them to leave, and they must, at least temporarily.

Continue to ask to be taken to meet with the Creator. Allow things to unfold. You will know when you arrive; the space will be austere and simple and yet unmistakable. Keep it simple. Take a question with you. Perhaps ask if you are lovable or if there is anything “wrong” with you. Maybe ask if you are worthy! Don’t expect a conversation. You will likely hear just a few words, but take whatever you get to heart.

When you feel finished, give thanks and return. Keep what you have been told close - write it down! Hold it close to your heart, and use it! It is the truth! Use it as an anchor to refer to as you go through your days. It will help to keep you in the truth, even though it likely contradicts the beliefs you hold about yourself. And do this exercise as often as you need.

How do I know this is not just some Jedi mind trick? After all, this may only be a way to connect with your higher self. As I said, I have been doing this exercise for many years and the advice my clients receive has always been explicitly perfect, even when they didn’t want to hear it. And for the skeptics who don’t believe in God, if the advice is perfect, who cares where it comes from?

About Ross Bishop: I became a healer as an outgrowth of my own need for healing. My pain and dissatisfaction with my life brought me to leave the corporate world and begin a journey to find and root out the sources of the considerable pain I carried within myself. I found western psychology to be woefully inadequate to help me and so I set out to find more meaningful answers.  
 

My teachers all encouraged me after working on my own stuff to go outside myself and help others to heal, not as a humanitarian service but as a way to deepen my own healing process. I found that I had a gift for the work and that my teachers were absolutely right. Serving others is a remarkable learning process. My clients over the last 25 years have taken me to places I could not have gone on my own. I am deeply grateful for the gifts of personal growth that our work together has given me.  
 

In a former life, Ross was president of an advertising agency and a communications executive for the former Northern States Power Company (NSP) in Minneapolis. After leaving NSP, with a colleague he founded Creative Power Workshops and traveled the country teaching creative thinking to advertising writers and art directors. Seeing the limitations fear placed on people’s creative passion led Ross to undertake a spiritual journey in search of answers. That journey covered many miles and several years and brought him to many teachers. Finding some answers, Ross also found he possessed a natural gift for shamanic healing. He returned to this country and conducted vision quests for spiritual pilgrims throughout the Southwestern United States. Today he concentrates his energies on writing and on an active healing and counseling practice in Santa Fe.  
 

Ross Bishop’s website: https://www.rossbishop.com/