“Forget about it.” This is the slogan that made it on to the tee shirts we gave out at our recent Waves of Change Conference. Of course, it took mere minutes for somebody to start reciting the line in his best New York accent a la Joey Tribbiani in the Friends television series. All well and good. The humor is part of the forgetting, since “Forget about it,” more than anything else, reminds us to take our mind’s hands off whatever project concerns us, and give the Field right of way.
Like so much in Field training, this little slogan, taken as instruction, poses the problem of how you deliberately forget about something, but the paradox, as usual, is resolved in practice, since forgetting about something means getting on with other things, those things that are, in the language of the Course, “before us to do,” and as we do this, we forget about whatever it is we wanted to forget about, and we forget that we forgot. Our attention naturally follows the natural course of events as they arise, releasing all agendas, willfulness, and attempts to manage or control outcomes. Forgetting, in this sense, is a by-product of getting on with other things. This is why Field training students who practice what they know come across as people grounded in the living present. They have released themselves from the endless distractions of willful living.
There is more to the story, however, and that is how the Field responds when we “forget about it.” Giving the Field right of way in our affairs does more than return us to a more attentive, mindful, and therefore efficient engagement of the present. It also evokes nonlocal efficiency, for the Field takes up our cause the instant we put it down. In this lies another paradox—that we can have what we want if we can walk away from it. Some may think this means that we have to come to a point where what we want doesn’t matter to us anymore, but this is far from the truth. Rather, we have to come to a point where what we want doesn’t rule us anymore. We have our desires, but they no longer have us. We stop being obsessive, having seen through the Particle assumption, unsupportable on even cursory examination, that nothing will happen if we don’t make it happen. In forgetting about it, we discover the extraordinary efficiency of letting things happen, of getting out of the way so that something greater can come into play in our behalf.
There is a surprising surge of confidence that comes with this getting out of the way, a confidence rooted in delegating to that intelligence that created and sustains the universe each moment, and the sense that the Field is working on whatever we have released. The willingness to have what we want goes hand in hand with the willingness to let it go. To be willing to “forget about” is to take up our authority as co-creators, for what we forget in this way, the Field remembers for us, and remembers with the efficiency that set the stars burning.
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