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Gregg Sanderson<\/strong><\/p>\n I act freely when I am tuned in, centered, and loving, but if possible I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving\u00a0myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness. ~ Ken Keyes, Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n * * * * *<\/em><\/p>\n This is the \u201cYou can\u2019t fire me, I quit\u201d pathway.\u00a0 It\u2019s the easiest to understand, and for me, the most difficult to follow.<\/p>\n The message is simple, \u201cChill.<\/p>\n The problem is, when I\u2019m caught up in my \u201cstuff\u201d\u2014my unsatisfied needs\u2014chilling is the last thing I want to do.\u00a0 I want to throw something.<\/p>\n I guess that\u2019s why Ken included this pathway.\u00a0 Just to let me know I haven\u2019t arrived yet.<\/p>\n I act freely\u2026 I trust my choices.<\/p>\n \u2026When I am tuned in\u2026 I trust my judgment.<\/p>\n \u2026Centered\u2026 I am in balance, neither passive nor aggressive.<\/p>\n \u2026and loving\u2026 I accept the people and situations around me.<\/p>\n \u2026if possible\u2026 Yay! My escape clause.\u00a0 I\u2019m OK even if I get caught up<\/p>\n \u2026I avoid acting\u2026 If I can get this far in the pathway, I\u2019m home free.\u00a0 I can wait until the \u201ctuned in, centered, and loving\u201d takes over.<\/p>\n \u2026all the rest\u2026 This is how I make a mess of things if I don\u2019t get this far, and that is the case all too often.\u00a0 Here I am, teaching this stuff, and I still make a fool of myself with disturbing frequency.\u00a0 As I said before, this is the most difficult to follow.<\/p>\n I know I\u2019m OK even if I stray, but I may not have as much fun.\u00a0 The Ninth Pathway is still a worthy goal, and it\u2019s OK to miss the mark\u2014and take the consequences.<\/p>\n Rarely is that so apparent as within a close relationship.\u00a0 Should you dare to act freely when you\u2019re not tuned in, centered, and loving, that person who \u201cnever listens to you\u201d will hang on every word\u2014and never forget.<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t have to be a situation of emotional upset, either.\u00a0 Way back in the days when I was young and foolish (Now I\u2019m no longer young), I was at a luncheon with the company\u2019s new Marketing Manager. The conversation turned to the military.<\/p>\n Freshly discharged from the service and never having heard of the Ninth Pathway, I expressed my snobbish opinions of the regimented life.<\/p>\n I later found out the Marketing Manager was a Major in the Army Reserves.\u00a0 He told me so himself when he provided me another experience of \u201cfreshly discharged.\u201d<\/p>\n When I fall off the consciousness wagon, there\u2019s always one undeniable guide to set me back on the path.<\/p>\n Consequences\u2014the perfect incentive to pay attention next time.<\/p>\n And there\u2019s ALWAYS a next time.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gregg Sanderson I act freely when I am tuned in, centered, and loving, but if possible I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving\u00a0myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness. ~ Ken Keyes, Jr. * * * * * This is the \u201cYou can’t fire me, I quit\u201d pathway.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[9,12,17,26],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-the-love-collection","tag-emotions","tag-freedom","tag-love","tag-release","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}