Source 3  Support

•   Support

.».  Opening
     Will you embrace the idea of this Practice being one aspect of the whole.  The Practice can be support, the process can show you the way to support, support can come from other places.  So even if you find yourself appreciating the work a sense of openness is serving and helps to keep you out of the ego.  Open to support from different places (different ways)…
       Know the difference between debt, support and help, you only pay back the first one.  How do you earn support?  You don’t, you receive support.
       Note:  I feel a strong pull to say we don’t earn it, we don’t deserve it, we receive it (support, life).  The idea of earning everything brings up a certain resistance in me.
       + It’s ok to receive.  Let go of the guilt you learned, came in with… receive.
       + Recognize the connection of support and help to life.  They were never intended to be separate.
       Courage (too), it takes courage.
       + You get what you are willing (S11. Your Will) to accept.
       Note:  The Practice talks about the work you do.  You can do the work to sustain you can do the work to receive (which is to do the work to raise your consciousness).  See how receiving is a higher state of consciousness (S4. Receiving).  You may be looking for support (how to get) and see it’s all about work.  “But that’s not receiving”, it (always) comes back to intention. Understand intention and you will have a greater feeling for support. For a moment we will leave it at that…

.».  The Ethos of Support
» The support and the work are unrelated as long as you are looking for one as payment for the other.
       Support can come, the work can be done.
       The work will only be as good as the amount of support received as long as you look at them as dependent on each other.
       Support can come.
       Yes.
       The work can be done.
       Yes.
       And are unrelated.
       Connect the work to your heart.
       Ask for support from your heart, smile, be ok to ask, to desire, to want for a time.
       Then as you (begin to) see the world, see the work, see the support in a different light then you will understand and no longer ask, yet receive.
       In doing the work and transforming your relationship with your heart then you will know the nature of support, how your conscious and subconscious play a part…
       You may come to the place of:  will you just give me the…(support).  There is no need in this request (ask).  It might be followed by the realization (S1. Reality) of I don’t want (need) all that pain anymore, the releasing of desperation (S10. Desperation).  Recognize this moment of realization as a form of support too.
       Will you just give me the (your request)… will you just give me the support.
       Will you just give me… will you just give me the support.
       Realizing consciousness and need (lack of consciousness) play a part in this receiving (state of consciousness), a sort of self fulfilling prophesy.  In giving up the need, in believing this is true-possible you let go, (accept) it will happen.  The releasing of doubt, the relaxing into possibility.  Some of the support (received) is you feeling like you can just stop doing those destructive behaviors that are destroying your life.
       Note:  I realized I was living the victim mentality, there under the surface always feeling like something was wrong.  It’s difficult to receive living in the shadow of fear, complacency, blame and regret.  Perhaps what they did was “wrong”, ok but for me to live in this negative place blocking receiving only continues to hurt me.  Same for you, in a sense to let go (of the limiting thought).

» + I want to give you everything.
       I can’t handle everything.
       Handle defines in one way as “control”.  You can’t control everything yet it’s available to you right now (resource).
              Note:  The common thought we typically have is resource equals “money”, stillness (S6. Stillness) is the more common resource referred to in the Practice.  Stillness leads to solutions (for your life).  Solutions don’t necessarily fix everything as the costs of your past (S5. Cost) unravel through time…

» As you receive (and thrive) others do too.
       A basic simple example:  You receive $5 and buy something.  You receive that something, the one who made that something receives $5.  We are not in this alone including receiving, thriving.
              You could see this as a justification to let go of the guilt some have associated with receiving, it’s not.
              You could see this as a reason to receive, it is not.
              This is simply how it is when you allow (S5. Allow).
       Recalling how the intention of the work is for you to live:  You living is you out in the world spreading your support.  You have received, you are sharing that receiving through living.  This doesn’t mean you have to give away what you have received or that you have to “spend” either.  The sharing ultimately is energy.  You can’t “think” this sharing.  “I have to”, “I’m supposed to” now that I have received…
              No, just live as this person you have become (are becoming) and you will naturally (S11. Natural Environment) share your energy, there is no obligation post support (receiving).
       Note:  See that out in the world is subjective, unique to you.  While at home emanating out energy to the collective (S11. The Collective) counts too.  There is no “do this” answer to being out in the world.
       As one point of reference look at Jesus:  Was he only healing another when he had his hand on their forehead?  Sleeping amongst the villagers did they all not feel blessed by Jesus’s presence?  Do you feel the energy now knowing of Jesus?  The word spreading from above could be seen as laying down the foundation for yourself and others, the foundation of rising consciousness.

.».  To Practice
» Support is to me…
       Support, allowance to (have).
       A life that matches my perspectives.
       An ever changing perspective rooted in reality.
       An influx of opportunities, new situations to grow-evolve (from).
       One more chance beyond that last one.
       Resources, life is more fun with resources including the little things, the big things.
       Moments to notice and the ability to do so, those moments…
       An environment conducive to peace.
       Freedom to be.
              A poem of sorts for you to contemplate.  If this poem represented the meaning of life would you say yes to that meaning?  What would your meaning of life look like now and in the future?  Contemplating this poem is the exercise, is the opportunity (request) for you to contemplate your life.
       Note:  The words in this poem interconnect with multiple Topics from the Practice.  For example perspective rooted in reality clarifies through S1. Reality.  One more chance beyond the last one could be seen as infinite chances coming to you one after the other.
       As you feel into this poem you see support becomes less of a “thing” and more of a presence (in your life).

» Why do the work?
       Better question is what is my intention for doing the work?  Then beyond “better” what is the work to me?  Can you see (feel) the melding of the work and support?
       The work and support are directly related, what unrelates them is the “why” you do the work.  Transition from “why” (S2. Beyond Why) to intention.

» What does support represent to you?
       The exercise could be to read, contemplate (E1. Interpreting Expressions) this Topic and then answer.
       Note:  Sitting in a coffee shop getting annoyed by a conversation taking place near me I realized strength (S6. Strength) was the support I was looking for in that moment.  Then realizing there wasn’t a lot of love or focus in my life at that time and this was a place to start.  This note could apply to a number of the exercises from this Topic.

» What would support you on this journey?
       Define (it).
       You may like to contemplate the idea of patience, presence, posture, breath, smile, rest, action as forms of support.
       For example you could read a self help book and realize I don’t want to get angry anymore, no matter what.  That realization is support (not the book), you learning to support yourself (S3. Support Yourself).  Maybe the impetus to read that book came from external (support), could be out of frustration (S1. Frustration).  Realizing this could change the support you ask for… taking the time to answer this question could expand who you are (S11. Know Yourself).
       Note:  A change to my internal feeling is what I felt in the moment of writing this comment.  I can feel that something is not right or well inside, a feeling of unease.  Some of that is part of the human condition (collective thought), living past this feeling (while not substituting it for the ego) is to evolve.  Noticing this feeling of unrest is support in a way (likely a product of the work you are doing).
» What’s the journey?
       Define (it).
       Letting go of pain is the journey most of us are on.  Releasing the need for pain (S12. Surrender).  What is the path out of pain?  Support (during).  There likely will still be pain (as human) while support will help to ease it.  Support and consciousness, love too.
       You may first like to define the journey but in defining the support first the journey may look differently too.  Allow (S5. Allow) both to evolve much like you do.  When you don’t know embrace action, even a small step.  You can be cautious, you can be careful while also realizing time is moving.  Time is not the pressure your level of consciousness is.
       Note:  For my journey I answered: writing, sailing, RV’ing, traveling, home, running, loving, relationships, connection, health.  A mixture of external and internal, practical and spiritual.  At times though I just don’t know, it’s changing and this is my journey of discovery.  As I delved further into this work I too realized creating is the key.  We are here to create.

» What do I need right now?
       Love.  One strong intention in the Practice (and in life) is to live beyond need.  Beyond love (being the only thing you need) support is likely not the answer to the above question, not the support you think.
              + Know the receiving that you seek may not be the receiving that you think.
              When support is the answer (plus that internal smile) you are further along than (only) thinking.  The work helps you to this realization.
              Note:  The answer as in realizing it’s already happening then you are there.  You might pause to realize the support you are receiving and then how you can expand it (that’s the point of this work).
       As soon as you feel confused (“support is, is not the answer”), throw your hands in the air and surrender the support will likely flow.  Look at two possible responses from you for the same situation:  “Things are blowing up, don’t you understand I need help (support)”, or  I’d like support, I am open to support…  For the former there is an almost panic to the response.  With the latter you know (S4. To Know), there is spaciousness, an open heart to the response.
       Note:  How often do your emails, all your interactions encompass one of these two responses?  Which one is predominant?
       There may be frustration but you don’t have to be frustrated (S1. Frustration).  When there is panic the intention isn’t to look past the current situation (for support) you bring it with you on the journey.  Realizing you are acting this way (possibly frustrated and hesitating) is a form of supporting yourself.  You may smile and answer nothing (to the question of what do you need).  There may be things that are pressing (problems), regrets, things you want, things you would like to have.  Support is more relevant when beyond need (S10. I Am Without Need).
       When you need support the support you need is to learn (remember) to live beyond need.  It’s blowing up and I’m ok.  Not ok with it blowing up, ok to move forward beyond the chaos.  I am beyond need (free).  No need no blame no victim and yes to action.  This is the space…
       Note:  You might read it as “finally ready” to move forward beyond the chaos but it’s a journey (S5. Lifestyle).  Today you are ready, tomorrow maybe not.  Live beyond ready (S2. Ready) embrace living towards consciousness through consciousness (a snowballing affect of action).  This way you are open to the mistakes and failures too.
       The point of this exercise is to look for support beyond need, beyond needing the support and independent of the situation while retaining your sense of self through the chaos of society (collective).  Things are going well, I’d like support, things are going poorly, I’d like support.  Even with love transfer from “need” to open to (S10. Need to Service) for deeper connection.

.».  Expressions
The Universe-Support Foundation:
» The support and the work are unrelated.
       The full Expression is above.  As an example say you are creating some new and wonderful product or process that will benefit Humanity and at the same time feel pressure around resources (possibly time-money-energy-clarity).  You may have thought given the good this will create for all that there is no way the Universe will not support you, so you are in essence connecting the work and the support.  When the support does not come the work will suffer at the design of doubt (S2. Anger).
       Note:  You could look at it written above as a double negative (no way, will not) for you to realize that’s how most of us think, that’s how the thoughts play with (confuse) our minds.  You may not speak or write that way but you may think and subsequently live that; the chaotic confusion, pushing pulling of predominantly thought-only-existence.  This Note could be difficult to agree with.  Realize you are free to suffer, it’s your choice to suffer (struggle too).  Sans miracles God will not intervene to prevent your suffering (or struggle) especially when it’s your choice.  You may not think that you choose to suffer.  You may like to look at your relationship with the ego, do you see yourself as victim or choice with your participation in this relationship.  Either way it’s a relationship to move on from.
» The path to receiving support is through opening up space (S11. Space).
       Recognize both are important, both the work and the support including the opening up space for support (which is also the work).  It’s 180 degrees away from what you may have thought, what you think would be the logical solution.  You tell yourself the Universe want’s to support me, true and “I’m doing important work so logically the support will come”, no.  Open up space for the support.  What does it look like to open up space?
              The more you understand the work the more support you can-will receive.
              The less it is a thought and the more it becomes a feeling the more support you will feel (receive).
              The more important it becomes in your life the less likely you will need to do anything to receive (support).
       So naturally you might say “yes the work is important to me so I will receive support”, in this declaration you are missing the point of support for you.  Relates to the idea the moment you believe you are conscious is the moment you step off the path of consciousness.  Don’t miss the step of opening up space for support (which at times can be to listen internally).
       For example, in realizing the work is going to help humanity you can easily step into the ego and be like “look at me”, this is a difficult place to receive support from.  Same if your project is successful, you can loose you in the success.  So opening up space for these examples would be taking some time to know yourself (S11. Know Yourself), know you are not your ego.  Say you focus solely on the work and sacrifice yourself, this is a difficult place to receive support from.  If the motor has fallen off the rocket would you give it more fuel (resources, support)?  This is a nice time to remember Source 11 and the body, take care of your body your vehicle for fun.  Realize in your quest for support: 
              The Universe is not driven by need.
              The Universe will not support the ego.
» The Universe will let it fall apart.
       Saving you from suffering is not the intention of the Universe.  The Universe (mechanism) supports consciousness.  You receive through consciousness (your action), through miracles (from God), and through kindness (from others).  You may also have ideas around coincides and luck.  The mechanism is there (available) to live beyond suffering (when realized by You).  The intention (mechanism) of the Universe is to move-push you towards consciousness, this is how you (truly) enjoy life (E3. Joy).  The intention of the Universe is to create Heaven on Earth (essentially), the raising of consciousness could only be this.
       Note: As you embrace the positive you willingly realize the difference between: “saving you from suffering is not the intention of the Universe” and The intention of the Universe is to move-push you towards consciousness.  They may seem similar, the distinction is positivity, consciousness.
» Evolve beyond the pushing.
       The pushing of the Universe (to evolve).  The Universe “pushes” in a sense too.  Pushing you to evolve-change-grow.  Not in a negative aggressive way you might think.  Simple example just sit there for a few moments: “I’m not going to be pushed by the Universe anymore” you declare.  Eventually you will likely feel hunger: “maybe I’ll get up and eat”.  This is the “push” essentially of the Universe, how it is we evolve for instance through our dependencies (S1. Dependencies) in this case food.  You could get up and eat quickly satisfying hunger (push) you could make a lovely meal enjoyed by you (possibly with friends) doing so presently (evolved).  You can eat to satisfy the hunger (push) you can eat to enjoy life (E3. Joy)…
       We live our lives with a certain pushing-pulling-chasing there in our thoughts too.  Beyond this is the evolved (conscious) you.   You almost can’t do nothing so why not (S12. Focus on the Positive) do something (meaningful).  Defining meaningful (S1. Success) is the journey of your life (S5. Action).
       Note:  At one point I thought the “pushing” was only me.
» You could arrive at the question “If I am of service to the Universe then I will receive support”?
       Only if the service includes you (benefiting).  You (The You) specifically.  From S10. Need to Service we see the progression towards service (to the Universe and God).  It always comes back to you and your evolution (evolving).
» You don’t get support for your projects.
       You receive support for you (from there you create You, the work, projects, life).  The Universe is only supporting you.  You may be working on a project to save humanity (or just building a small shelter for a stray cat or painting a bathroom) yet the project receives no support, only you.  Your evolving is the projects evolving (I am my work).  As you progress the answers (and solutions) come and the project progress’s.  It’s your stillness that moves the work forward (through support) always only.  You may progress, regress (ebb and flow), you are the conduit for the energy.  You are the expression of the Universe and God.
       + Find You (S11. The You) in the support.
       Note:  On your own (without support) you can do what ever you’d like.  The Universe doesn’t care if you build an atom bomb or a shelter for humanity.  It’s about you, evolving.  You could see this as “why” the Universe supports you (not your projects) only.  Why-type-thinking (S2. Beyond Why) though will only take you so far in understanding (then knowing) the work.
» It really is about consciousness.
       The key to support, receiving.  Someone might be a good person, that can be different than consciousness.  Someone might be respectful, that can be different than consciousness.  One who helps others but does not take care of themself is missing the conscious element of life.

Support Defined:
» Notice the different forms of support.
       Source 3 is about many forms of support.  Be open in your defining of Support.  Know support beyond the obvious (thought).  Support can come in many different forms.  Can you see energy (S4. Energy) as support?
              + Love is support, connection is support.
              + Awareness is support.
              Community is support.
              + Clarity is support.
                     Support in the form of clarity which can be resources.  Clarity of dream and experiences to support your dream (including building strength) with an intention to create.  Freedom to be and travel, love and energy with health in your being and body.  You may state: I ask for clarity around my dream, my journey. 
» Clarity.
       Connect the work to your heart.  Clarity is support.  Clarity could be this very statement reminding you to connect to your heart (S4. Come from the Heart).
» + What support are you looking for.
       Are you truly asking (S6. Ask God for Help) for the support you are looking for?  Have you opened up the space (S11. Space) to receive support, the support you would really like?  First understand what support is to you.  You may wonder: how do I take that next step (and continue to progress…), how would support help?
       + Action.
       Will.
              Clarity (as support) is not always the answer to the question “should I do this or do that”.  When clarity becomes who you are rather than what to do you will know (S4. To Know) the solution (S1. Solution).
       Note:  In the midst of this writing and self doubt around what I am creating I realized one aspect of support I am (was) looking for was clarity around this process, strength too.  When it came so too did action (living).
» When you are down that’s when the work (itself) is support.
       Sometimes the clarity is that it’s not working, reminding you nothing flows when down.  There are only lessons (and additional mistakes) down there.  Not to take away from the importance of grieving.  Grieving can be the letting go (of the past) which has value in the form of space.  Letting go can precede receiving.
       Note:  Sometimes when down an upbeat song or friend can be that light (support) to pull us out.  A random smile too.  The more you see different types of support the more you start to look for (be open to and notice) support in your life.  This cultivates the support (more support in your life).  Look for is different energy than chasing.  Down isn’t always this terrible awful place either.  Mediocre (a place some of us spend a lot of time) could be analogous to down too.  This is when you might look to your openness to thrive (S11. Your Will).
» Where you find the courage you will find the support.
       When first read the Expression could be interpreted as that if you have courage you will receive support.  An alternate way to feel this Expression is that the courage and the support come from the same place.  Where does courage (S5. Courage) come from?  Through knowing yourself (S11. Know Yourself) which fuels connection.  Would you be more courageous if you had more knowledge and wisdom, then is the support you seek knowledge and wisdom?  See how knowing yourself is a form of support as well.
» Realization is support.
       You don’t need to be perfect to receive support, only open to support.  You might think you have to be perfect to receive support or do everything right.  When you are not perfect that doesn’t mean there will be no support.  Letting go of this thought is the space (S11. Space).  You can do it all wrong and receive.
       Realizing you are ok can come from support, space.  So a little support a little realizing and so on and so on (that’s the journey).  Those who are the support know you are not perfect, know you are evolving.  Perfection is never a criteria for receiving support.
       Say there is a situation you are scared of happening.  Early in your journey you will look to support so that situation doesn’t happen.  In time you realize as that situation disperses another materializes until you stop fearing.  Further along your journey you realize the support is you being ok to live life, feeling ok with life as it is as you live through the world changing.  Difficult things may still materialize, it’s how you react (by not letting them pervade your consciousness) that becomes your life, to be ok.  Support then includes courage (S5. Courage).
       Note:  You might say “but what if that situation happens”.  Living like this you end up spending your life mired in mediocrity afraid of what might happen.  Of course you take precautions, you plan, save, act, however your journey looks like.  The more you embrace life the less significant your problems will be (to you).  Internally and externally, learning to define each is knowing yourself.
» It is ok to seek out and receive support.
              That’s the journey.
       You may have an issue, the support might not be the direct fix to that issue.  That way of thinking at times may not encompass what is possible in this Universe.  There is typically a layer down that is the deeper place to look for support.
» Support is not payment for belief.
       Support is support for believing in support.  Support is more closely tied to letting go.  Belief is in the practical, letting go is in the Spiritual, proof is unnecessary.  Your surrendering is the unifying of the practical and Spiritual (E2. Alignment).
       You may need it you may want it but are you open to it (support)?  Do you actually truly believe it will come to you?  Faith eventually replaces belief along the journey.  The above Expression could be rewritten as: Know Support as help for faith in the existence of something beyond you, beyond your mind.  Even that could be written just as faith, where faith (S10. Faith) the idea suggests something greater than you.  See too that faith is not that you believe in God, faith is to embrace God (open to).  Your embrace(ing) is the support effectively, you open to support.  Embracing is action rather than a word or thought.  Discovering this true action is the path to God.  Gratitude is a possible action.
       Note:  Possibly “belief” is your word.  The idea is beyond the thought (what the Practice calls belief) is action (what the process calls embracing).  However you call it (the words your use) take action in your faith…
» + Support is not meant to prove faith, support is the product of faith.
       It’s not the case of receiving support and then saying “I believe in faith”.  Through faith you receive support.  You may wonder “why wouldn’t God just give it (support) to me”?  Free will.  What about in a crisis?  We are all connected, no sides are set in support.  We try to address some of the “why” eventually you are to live and through that action (living) support comes.  Living is beyond why (S2. Beyond Why).
       Note:  I wonder if faith here is referring to the faith we can have in life too.  Recognize faith can take on many forms.  There is faith in God, faith in yourself and can there be faith in life, faith in the power of life (Universe)?  Faith in life could be seen as karma, the philosophy that the Universe will come round (even out).  Eventually good will come your way (through evolving).  Maybe it transcends life times…
              + The idea that it evens out (Karma) is not how the Universe want’s to be.  The idea that eventually “they will get theirs” (good or bad) is not how the Universe wishes to be.  The Universe doesn’t want to take sides (and doesn’t).  The intention of the Universe is not a punishment model.  Raise your consciousness and the Universe can provide freely (for those).  It’s not that the Universe favors the conscious it’s that the Universe favors consciousness (in it’s pure form).  The difference is how the energy is distributed.  The abundance (energy) of the Universe flows towards consciousness.
» Support, it’s not proof it’s living.
       See support like this big ball of energy you walk over to, embrace it and apply to your life actions.  Looked at this way support is less like something external and more closely connected to you and your actions.  Sitting and waiting (on support) leads to sitting and waiting.  One of those actions is to open the space.
       Note:  Holding your hands (beliefs) in a clenched fist, how much can you hold?  Open the space (as an action) to receive.
» Proof never comes in the form of Support.
       No need to look for proof.  Connects with the S1. Foundational Principles proof is unnecessary.
» Support is different than “saving” you (from).
       Support is not intended to save you from life.  Support comes to support (enhance) life.
» The work and support can be the same, one.
       The intention of this Topic is for you to make the connection.  The words of this Topic could be a form of support… will (it’s up to your will).
» Sometimes the feeling of support (you are looking for) is worthy.
       To realize your worth (S4. Worthy).  Not because you suffered, not that you need “it” or have longing.  Worth could be you giving yourself permission to receive, including something nice.
       For example you might want a nicer place to live (home).  Reasons (S1. Beyond Reason) could look like; “our current place is too small”.  Justification (S2. Victim); “this neighborhood doesn’t fit us”.  Even when the reasons and justifications are true but the impetus to move is towards what you would like (S12. Focus on the Positive) then you are evolving.  Do you feel the calm in acknowledging your worth and realizing it would be nice to live somewhere new, somewhere nice, a place that sparks you to create.  To move to that feeling of ahhh, I love it here.  A place you feel compelled to dance around in your underwear (E3. Joy).  This house example is evolving through shelter (S1. Dependencies).
       Note:  Have you heard someone say after a move “we stayed there 2 years to long” or “we should have moved sooner”.   Same can be true for a job that doesn’t suit you.  That can be the support, to save you those 2 years, to feel supported to take that step out of what you are currently doing (possibly your comfort zone).  Then support becomes part of who you are.
» Support can be like a raincoat in the storm.
       Allowing you to explore life through the chaos (of Humanity).  Feeling peace in the situation can be (from) support.
       We talk about the chaos of the ego and collective here within the Practice.  You can’t get out of that chaos, you can live through it through support and connection and your will.  There is no way out only through.
       Note:  From the Reading Topic (E1. Reading the Practice) we mention a lot of the way the Practice is written is intentional.  We stress in the previous paragraph the importance of support and connection and your will… know all three.
» Support holds (props) you up.
       Knowledge and wisdom move you forward.  Wisdom comes through action.  No matter how much support that comes you are to do (S11. Your Will) your part as well.

Important:
» The more important it becomes in your life the less likely you will need to do anything to receive (Support).
       See that important speaks to your evolving. 
       “This is very important to what I am trying to do”.
       + No (in relation to support).
       Nothing happens support wise.
       This is very important to how I would like to be (who I am becoming).
       + Yes.
       Your life changes in this manner of thought (living).  This is you essentially attaching the work to your evolving, the realizing of the importance of evolving (to you).  Do the work to evolve (rather than get something, S2. To Get Something), connect words like understanding, knowing and feeling to important.  Then the support becomes part of your path (support is part of evolving).
       To expand on the idea of the less likely you will need to do anything to receive:  The support could be your realization of an opportunity (that you may have previously missed), yet you still have to act on that opportunity.  It’s not that you don’t have to do anything in your life, it’s that you don’t need to do anything to receive possibility (opportunities), they are already there.  The initial perception of support is that it opens up more life possibilities to you.  The reality of support is the opportunities are there with support helping you realize them.  Now here support becomes the stepping out of perceptions into reality (where possibility exists, S1. Reality).
      We maybe don’t mention it enough in the work how the point of evolving (for you) is to more deeply enjoy life (E3. Joy).   Evolving is the path out of anger, fear, stress (shadow as described in the process) all of which are counter to (your) joy.  When you release the fear then you will receive.
       Note:  If I wasn’t nervous (if I’d evolved beyond nervous) would I enjoy the moment more, or simply enjoy it period?  Yes I say.
       You might like to connect the Expression but that’s not your success from S1. Success as you define important to you.  Connect your internal success to important (to you) and notice the support unfolding.

To Avoid:
» + Let go of expectation driving belief.
       Example “if or when x happens then I will believe” is an expectation (S2. Expectation).
» What is the other way?
       Receiving support versus figuring it (all) out yourself (S12. Letting Go).
» There is more available in life than the 1 to 1 support for work model…
       The 1 to 1 work model is the cycle we want to break.  Working for everything means you only get what you work for.  It could be as simple as someone holding a door (open) for you (and you open to walking through).  It’s one less obstacle you have to navigate.  Imagine this list growing, expanding (support for you) while recalling you don’t pay back support.  Eventually (through your will) you recognize the support from within.  Now you see the part your will plays in your life…
» + The Support is meant to be an addition to your life not the meaning.
       “Once I get ___ then I’ll finally”.  This is not the intention of support.
       Note:  I didn’t live this one for a long time and suffered, I thought I wanted “the thing” as a means to fix it all.  It wasn’t until I started to live did my life change (including the thing).
» Support Yin Yang.
       + (Yin) It’s about you (progressing) not about doing the work.
       + (Yang) You do the work to understand, in the understanding you receive support (open to).
       These two together might change the reason behind your actions.  Yin-Yang loosely parallels feminine and masculine (S11. Feminine Masculine) in the Practice.
» See yourself no longer waiting on support, doesn’t work that way.
       Rather (you live) working on understanding, knowing, receiving.  See (S2. Waiting).
» It’s not the reward it’s the living of the work.
       Living each moment enhanced by the work you have done (are doing)… live your life enhanced by the product of the work (connection, receiving, love).
» Don’t look for support to make the past “right”.
       Maybe there was a transgression.  Support will never make that “right”.  The past has happened, maybe you failed.  All you can do is make now (and going forward) improved.
       Note:  We (at times) gravitate towards this idea of “better”.  The intention of the Practice is not to make your life “better”.  Striving for better can be limiting, there is a life beyond better that is available to you.  You will likely take steps, don’t settle for better.
» + Do not attach need to the work.
       Example: “I need to figure out the work to receive support”.  Figure out the work to live a better life then let go of “better” and then let go of “figuring it all out”.  From this place support flows freely, the internal support which guides the external.  Let (allow) the work be important to you and you will receive support.

Intention:
» + The work matches the intention, the intention informs the work.
       The definition of matches contains the words equal to, quality, strength.  Informs defines with words of give quality to.  So an alternate formation for this Expression could be: the work is equal to in quality or strength to the intention, the intention give(s) an essential or formative principle or quality to the work.  The interesting word then becomes quality, as in quality of life, contained in both definitions.  The work equals the quality of the intention (you set), the intention gives quality to the work.  Intention is part of the Element 1 Guiding Principles (E1. The Words), Source 5 (S5. Intention) as well as Source 7 (S7. Intention Mantra).
       What is the intention for your life?  The work matches this intention.  If you are like “I don’t know, whatever” then it’s likely your life will be this ebb and flow of this or that, whatever.  Set your intention, live a full, quality life.  This Expression then is about you doing, being the work you do, be.  You (your life) are the work you do, be.  The idea of intention develops within the Practice.  See how it’s different than “I want” or “my plan is to…”.  Intention is more easily shared with God…
       Note:  While writing this work I found myself asking ‘what is my intention’.  I noticed it’s not such an easy question to answer…  I somehow wonder how it (intention) relates to the meaning of life we are each seeking.  One in the same?
       » The stronger your intention the stronger the work.
              Set your intention, set your intention, set your intention.  Which is to create your intention.
              The work matches the intention (you set, where you put your intention), the intention informs the work (you do, the person you become).
       Note:  I could have said ‘my intention is to create this process’ and with that intention that likely is all I would do.  Of course other aspects of life would filter in but not intentionally.
       Setting your intention could be one of the hardest things you do in relationship with this work.  Know if you set an intention and have an openness to it changing (you changing) you will succeed.  Multiple intentions, one intention?  Allow intention to develop for you.  If you set an intention you will not get it wrong, if you set no intention then an intention-less life you will live plus what ever pushes it’s way in (usually unwanted thoughts).
       Note:  As you do the work intention will likely move to a feeling.  Feeling (S4. To Feel) encompasses all life situations, relationships and things.
       One challenge of intention is maintaining your focus (S5. Focus) while (creating).  The thoughts (distractions) will come in and (try) disrupt your focus.  Your focus is yours and yours alone (free of the ego and collective).  When you can’t focus you are outside of you (S11. The You).  How often are you distanced from yourself in life?

Support and Feeling:
» Sometimes the support is a question…
       Why do I feel unsettled right now, am I even aware that I feel unsettled?  What am I nervous, agitated, rushing, angry about?  Taking time to answer is support (you supporting yourself with the work as the reminder to).  The answer at times relates to them (S2. Them), they are not going to change (overnight) so you either live agitated or you live free (S10. Freedom).  There may be something you want and are waiting, with the question of support being why (are you waiting)?  The surface answer could be “for it to come”.  Possibly there is an additional answer, could relate to fear.  All that happens when you wait is time moves (by).  See action as the path to support.
» What would it be like to feel good right now.
       This could be the support.  What would help you to feel good right now.  To become that person (E3. Intention; That feeling).  What is missing?
              Connection… which comes through presence.
              Embrace the idea of I welcome in support (in my life).  This feeling could be health, could be deeper in (S4. To Feel).  Do you know why you might not feel good right now?  There could be blame, it’s usually towards the wrong one-thing.  Rather than look for a distraction (away from the question) look inside.  Possibly you are using pain as a way to feel (S2. Using Pain to Feel) rather than love (S4. Love as a way To Feel).  Probably also driven by fear and victim (mentality).
       Note:  While reading this question I went to reach for a cherry yet realized how full I was already.  That was my distraction away from the question.  One answer I had was how I have regret from a past situation and how I am yearning for another opportunity while living in limbo between these two (past and future).  Living unsettled in the now.  For me the feeling of “hopelessness” was the driver.  If I truly believe another opportunity will come then I can live now peacefully (S12. Peace).  One solution is to find joy now before the opportunity.
» After reading this Topic I understand support.
       No, I feel support(ed).
       Feeling supported is the intention.
       Note:  What is the work giving me right now to feel good?  The answer initially is usually awareness that it’s not working, awareness of what-is-not-working (in your life) plus a feeling.
       As you strengthen (S6. Strength) then so too does the support.  You are connected to the support you receive.  It’s not that you need it or want it, you are connected to the support you receive (this is creating and alignment of the practical and spiritual).  Enhance the connection to move forward through support.  This is support as awareness (S1. Awareness).
       Note:  Imagine someone gives you something for free, like an unexpected baked good at a coffee shop.  Will you receive that outright and just receive or will you feel guilt and regret sitting there by yourself with your receiving?  Will the thoughts come “I should have said…” after receiving.  When you are in the moment (present) you receive freely, you are with the strength (and becoming stronger).  Just pause (momentarily), breathe, act.  That pause need only last a millisecond.  The more you progress the shorter that pause (need for) becomes.

Money:
» Don’t connect your perception of the work to receiving the money. 
       The work is.
       The receiving is, period.
» It’s ok to let money be support, to prop you up.
       Things that are propped up in time are likely to fall, back or forward.  Retain who you are, your sense of self and it will be ok.  That particular internal place where you received (the money) is not a place to stop (consciously).
       Note:  At one time in my life while waiting (S2. Waiting) on the money the perception crept in that it would fix everything.  Subsequently I did nothing (very little compared to time) and suffered for it physically and with heartache.  I skipped on opportunities to live.
» See how support is more than just receiving money here. 
       The same idea applies for a situation where say you work really hard for the money (versus receiving).  That money is great but will not fix everything.  That can be a good time to look at (what) success is for you (S1. Success).
       Note:  I had the idea come through that support is not money.  What is support to me I wondered in that moment? 
» If you were to see receiving the money as a way to “face my fears” that is a step forward as compared to “getting the money to buy something”.
       When we look at fear (S2. Fear) we see it’s not about facing them, see how this mentality is only A step not THE step.
» See the money as not meant to fix your problems or complete you.
       See it as an addition to your life, not the answer to problems.  Look to money as an addition to your life.  Consider the idea: to understand through this Topic (to come away with knowing) what support is, how support is not this or that; it’s essence it’s energy it’s being it’s calm.  The money might make you calm (when you can use it to relive the pressure or stress of a situation, like a bill or payment to be made).  Money also relates to your dependencies (the way the system is S5. Lifestyle), money plays a part in how we sustain life.  Eventually the money is not the support the feeling is the support.
» Support is not money.
       When you realize the money (for material things like cars, house, plane tickets etc..) is not support then you will know support at another level.
» I am receiving support.
       The money only changes a small part of how I am.  The bulk of the changes, how I am in the world have (are) to come from me (with support, connection).
       You have to (your will) open the space for connection and support.  See too how connection and support can be the same, can be different.  It’s like understanding how faith (S10. Faith) can show you what’s not working and how faith can provide.  How faith can help you to feel calm (in the storm) and how faith can provide.  Both serve a purpose.

.».  Parable
       Walking through an amazing neighborhood you see this kid and he has all the toys.  Out front is a bow and arrow set, super nice house and in the backyard are two brand new dirt bikes plus all the gear to go with them.  You ask the kid “want to play” hoping you can get on those dirt bikes.  He says yes and opens the gate to let you in.  He motions you towards the bow and arrow set and says lets shoot some targets.  Reluctantly you say “ok”, after all it’s the dirt bikes you want.  After awhile of shooting targets you get bored and start acting mean to the kid, he asks you to leave. 
       After a night of thinking you come up with a plan…  You go to his house the next day, this time with your shirt tucked in, hair combed back and long sleeves covering your tattoos.  You ask “want to play”, he says yes and invites you into the house.  You run to the back window staring out at the dirt bikes.  You ask if we can ride the bikes and he states it’s going to rain it’s not good for the bikes.  You curse out loud “f… the weather is against me” and he asks you to leave…
       More planning more thinking and now the next day you again ask him “want to play” and he again cheerfully invites you in.  It’s lunch time and the servant woman brings out the food.  You don’t give a flip about sandwiches you want to ride those damn bikes!  The servant woman asks if you would like anything else and unconsciously you wave her off with a rude “no”.  Again you are asked to leave.
       The next day you see the servant woman walking home with a ton of heavy groceries.  You feel the light in your heart and decide to help her.  You apologize for being rude (unconscious).  On the long walk to her home she mentions her fence is broken her dog keeps running away she’s working two jobs and has no time to fix any of it.  You offer to fix the fence for her.
       While working on the fence you hear the distinct sound of a dirt bike.  You turn and there is the kid.  He asks if you want to go ride dirt bikes.  Not today you reply, I’m fixing this fence today.  In this moment of service you have no need, you are conscious.  The kid states maybe tomorrow then, they are always available to you, they always were and looking deeply at him you notice he too has a bunch of tattoos.
              The kid is the Universe, support.
              You are the unconscious you and the conscious you.
              The servant woman God.
       It would be easy to “think” that once you are of service the support will come.  The conscious you in the story receives (the dirt bikes) through changing as a person, through their focus shifting to life rather than a thing (dirt bike).  Conscious you no longer need (the thing).  Life then includes more things, experiences, support.  Notice too how you are more like the Universe than you might think… not separate.
       What does it mean to shift your focus to life?
              Noticing the moment.  Be (in the) moment.
       There are numerous ways you could look at the interactions with the kid.  For example each representing a time you incarnated.  Maybe it’s simply different times or stages of your life as you evolve. 
        Why is the servant woman God?  It’s not that she represents God it’s that embracing opportunities is the embracing of God (then you see the God-opportunity in everyone-everything).  The opportunity in the story wasn’t to be of service the opportunity was to learn something (evolve) in essence to stop chasing (your need for the thing).  God (embracing) is opportunity.  Recognize the opportunity in every moment then you recognize God in everyone-every-moment.
       You could question this text (as true), if there is a God then this is how it would be?  The question shifts to belief.  You don’t have to believe in God, this (belief) will never get you there.  Let go of the thoughts, trying to understand, label or think God and live, this is the embracing.  Your mind will always just have a thought about God, the Universe and existence.  Feeling (S4. To Feel) transcends thought…
       Note:  I wrestled while writing this Practice with the thought of ‘do I believe in God’.  This strong feeling came in just live, feel then you will know.  To Know (S4. To Know) is a feeling.

.».  Examples
       See things that you need as fuel for change rather than need or reason.  For instance the Dentist, Optometrist and health insurance (to name a few).  Say you make choices on what you can purchase, you may think you need support.  Let go of it as need or reason and use it as fuel for opening up space.  The motivation is slightly different in terms of how it looks, energetically it is completely opposite. Then your intention is to enhance your encompassing life rather than “get the money for a teeth cleaning”.
       Same with anger, if someone says “you can’t” you can use their comment to fuel change, it will only take you so far.  Rather than prove them wrong you can see it as an opportunity (support essentially) to look at your life, to feel what is important to you and use that observation as the motivation to open up space for additional support.
       Note:  I had the idea that in this moment I had support (available).

       In the Parable we talk of shift your focus to life.  Sitting in a coffee shop online shopping for a “thing” will you notice your life rather than only focusing on “which item” to buy.  In some ways it’s to be grateful for the moment but more than that.  When you pause you might notice more of your life, how you feel physically, emotionally and beyond when you focus (S5. Focus) with intention.

       Motherhood could be seen as an example for The support and the work are unrelated Expression:  You have this child that is completely dependent on you.  An assumption may be that you should receive support as you gave life to a Being, you are keeping the human race going.  Yet if you don’t do the work, evolve, grow then there is no space for you to receive, to receive support.  The Universe will let it fall apart…
       Note:  There are situations as a mother you may sacrifice yourself for your child.  Eventually though the intention is for you and the child to evolve, change, grow simultaneously.

       I know someone who had an opportunity to apply for a job, a much better job than the one they were at.  They hesitated and did not immediately apply.  They rationalized it: “I already have a job etc.”.  There may have been self doubt about their ability to perform the new job too. 
       Had they acknowledged their worth and received (received the opportunity to apply for the job) how might their life been different?  Rather than the head had they come from the heart (S4. Come from the Heart) and acted what might have happened…
       Note:  This was my opinion of the situation, maybe the actual situation was different (we never did talk about it).  For a moment though will you look at your own life and see, have there been opportunities to receive that you didn’t take?  Maybe the support is there more than you think…

.».  Summary
     The more you understand the work the more support you can-will receive.  Recalling you don’t do the work to receive you do the work to evolve.  Knowing this is the evolving, part of evolving is receiving.  Receiving is the product of evolving rather than the reason to (thought).
       You move out of the place (as an evolved being) of desiring to get something.  You see the value in the relationships (with them with an item) and the value in yourself (S11. Value Yourself).  You see the importance of items and situations in your life (such as nurturing your dependencies) the joy in being and the joy in being with, but no longer try to get, chase or need.
       Then the more important it becomes in your life the less likely you will need to do anything to receive support (other than action in the direction of the opportunity).  Be open in your defining of support including realizing evolving is support.

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