Lesson 6: Fair Trade
In all energy work, the idea for the outcome at the end
of the day is *balance*.
Perfection, absolute weightlessness, total satisfaction
is in the perfect balance point where all is in Even Flow.
As an aside, a lot of folk who are switched on to the
other dimensions of being have a lot of trouble making any
serious amounts of money because of this - they have felt
the pure delight and power of the 0 balance point and
translate it across to their bank statements and accountancy
sheets in return.
As so often, a confusion about the Laws of The Planes
ensues for in the Hard, having 0 amount of money, 0 amount
of food and 0 amount of air to breathe is not actually
freedom but leads to death - a form of freedom which we get
quite freely in due course and don't particularly have to
work on to achieve, thus setting us free now to work on
something else instead.
Something that has to do with life, and living here, and
even further, living here with some delight, excitement and
expectation to make your mark in the world, to find and
utilise your power to create something, shape something,
make something extraordinary happen in this your
incarnation.
The principle of Fair Trade however, certainly exists on
the levels where exchanges such as attention and the first
tentative tentacles of contact between you and your visitors
occur that will then deepen, and deepen some more until they
may manifest in The Hard in purchases, telephone calls, or
even entries in your guest book.
Before we go into our Service meditation, I'm going to
briefly explain something to all the conscious minds that
are listening about establishing First Contact in cyberspace
and developing relationships.
In cyberspace, strangely it is a kind of law that you are
not to be contacted unless you have clearly stated that you
*wish to be contacted*.
This has arisen because of the possibilities of
"spamming" - too many people knocking on too many
people's doors with offers and messages they don't want,
can't use, aren't interested in.
We've all been newbies once and now we are no longer, and
we are sick and tired of being sent advertisements for penis
enlargers. Even if we were in the market for this particular
product, chances are, we have them all by now already.
Now, your message, product and service may seem TO YOU
much more valuable, meritful and beneficial than selling
penis enlargers, but to someone who doesn't want to know
about what you are doing, it might as well be that.
The trick is to be directive to whom you are offering
what; and when you have identified just whom you are
addressing, you need to go one step further - you need to
deliberately unbalance the energy exchange between you and
your prospective new friend/visitor/client/customer in order
to overcome a momentum resistance that will stop them from
interacting with you unless you do something about it.
It would be wonderful if we were all happy, innocent and
trusting people but of course, we're not.
We're terribly suspicious, have been disappointed so many
times, indeed, we *expect* to be disappointed on a new
contact and actively search for "the catch",
"the pitfall", "the scam" - and nowhere
more so than on the Internet (although, let's face it, most
people do this as a matter of course with every human or
their products and endeavours they meet!).
This is a big, big barrier, a many layered shield
designed to protect the vulnerable (and possibly injured)
person inside from further pain and suffering and to touch
people, get their attention, make contact and develop a
relationship at all, this barrier needs to be overcome in
some way.
In the preceding 5 lessons, we have already made quite
some inroads into the very most basic forms of getting
someone to "drop their shields" even for a moment
to give you, your product and your message a chance to
penetrate to their awareness and allow them and us to make
any contact at all.
These most basic requirements were:
1. Making a website that is congruent with your message
and intentions, that *feels safe and good* to have arrived
at;
2. Being truthful in what you present and thus,
energetically cohesive by default - incongruency triggers
people's defenses more than anything else because "they
smell a rat".
3. Being available to be contacted - encouraging contact
and opening yourself to the individuals;
4. Developing a sense of being grateful to your visitors
and appreciating people.
But on the web, that still isn't quite enough.
You need to go one step further and always, reliably and
without a fail, *give them more than you promised* in the
beginning stages of the relationship.
The Fair Trade Meditation
Imagine, if you will, that you are today a one who surfs
the web, not quite knowing what you're looking for, from one
site to the other, following links, reading a little, here
and there.
Imagine, you are one who is exactly that sort of person
for whom YOUR site will be a haven and a welcome sanctuary,
the perfect place, a finding of at least a little of what
you are searching for, and that your site will be a
homecoming the very moment the home page appears before this
person.
Imagine, if you will, looking through this person's eyes,
hearing with their ears, feeling with their body and sensing
with their other senses as you look at this home page and
notice how there's a little tingle of hope and yet,
immediately the backlash and the warnings - be careful!
Don't trust! Remember all your disappointments!
Step back, don't get involved, test, try, challenge -
don't be a fool again!
And thus, you start to surf your own web and you look
around with beady eyes, you search for the deceptions, for
the false promises, for the hidden sales, for the clues that
will let you know exactly what's going on here, exactly what
the score is, exactly what game they're playing at.
Click through every link and visit every page with those
suspicious eyes and that suspicious mind, picking up every
little incongruency, every little falsehood, every little
lie, every little half hearted, surreptitious sale intended.
Wonder all the while about the question, what is they
want from me in return? What do I have to do? Where do I
pay? Where's the checkout and what is the currency, the
cost? What is the deal here? And am I willing to enter into
this deal?
Now, return to your home page and slowly come back to
yourself.
What have you discovered?
What have you learned?
What changes will you make, what can you do to make this
different, make this entirely different for the next visitor
- how can you make a place and a sense that it is safe for a
moment to drop your shields and really interact, with your
materials, with your ideas, with you as a person?
What needs to be said, what needs to be offered free of
charge, and in advance, a deposit into the relationship
account that needs to be made up front to clearly show that
you seek balance in your interactions - true balance, give
and take, justice and worth, effort and reward in perfect
resolution?
What needs to be withdrawn or made in such a way that YOU
don't give away too much and thus unbalance the Fair Trade
and leave your visitor with far too much and nothing asked
for in return?
For either is unhealthy and will not support the Even
Flow; and whether you in preference might lean to giving out
too much and asking far to little in return, or if you're
hoarding and demanding more than is your right, the key to
have it be just perfect is to find the balance and to make
it obvious and clear to any visitor for they can feel this,
too. When a truly just, fair trade is offered, it sets both
parties in the trade entirely free on it's completion.
There is no remorse.
There is no disappointment.
There is no residue of bitterness on either side - both
are free to go and chances are, they enjoyed this unusual
trade so much, they'll come again just for that feeling
which is a rare thing in the trades that are conducted
everywhere.
The Fair Trade is one of the most satisfying human
interactions - both energetically, in every relationship, or
in exchanging goods for money.
It is one of the most generally useful principles to
fully understand I know; for this reason, do this meditation
more than once, and do it on other people's sites as well in
consciousness.
It will help you sharpen up your senses of The Fair
Trade, and give you many ideas, examples and suggestions
both on how to do it right, as well as how not to do it
right.
If you have serious problems with Fair Trade energy
exchanges in general, this might well be a topic to work on
with other methods you know to come to a resolution.
A great many things about our lives depend on this.
Well, that was Lesson 6.
Our last lesson will concern the topics of receiving, and
of friendliness.
Until then,
may your energy exchanges be harmonious :-)
Silvia Hartmann
http://starfields.org
