May 6, 2002

Here's a thought. Am I being guided, or am I seeing the future? Hmm, does that mean that I am guiding myself?

When I do massage, and many times other modes of healing, I will see visions of myself doing specific moves. I have been working on the thought that I am being guided by my guides, or my higher self, or some such spirit, and that they are showing me what to do. A couple other possibilities come to mind.

The first is that I am just seeing things in my imagination, and by doing what I see, I am then making a self fulfilled prophecy. I see me doing something, and I do it. That's like someone telling you that you will solve this puzzle easily, and then you work on the puzzle, which may have not been something you planned on doing. By working on it, you have fulfilled the prophecy.

Part of me wonders if I am doing this, seeing things and then making them come true. The problem with this line of thought is that it doesn't explain how I am seeing something that needs to be done, something that I could have no clue about. As with my massage teacher, and what I saw when I worked on her, I didn't know until days later that the problem she had was one that needed work where I actually ended up working.

The other thought is that instead of being shown what to do, I am seeing the future. What if I am seeing a few minutes into the future? Does this mean that I end up doing something that I have already done? Something I have done in the future? Does it mean then that by seeing the future, I am creating the future? What about the times when I don't do what I am shown? Am I changing the future?

I guess the bottom line is that I don't know. And maybe the best thing would be to shut up, and accept things instead of questioning them.

But then again what if...

Take care.