I have a view of life as being one big home building project.  I expressed it the other day to a patient as "Imagine you are a single part ready to be put into a new car on the factory assembly line.  You are created perfect and complete but you have no purpose by yourself.  It is not until you are connected to all the rest of the pieces of the car and learn how to do what you are perfectly designed to do at exactly the right time, with the right other pieces, and in the right way that you fulfill your purpose."  Life to me is all about learning how to assert my design perfection with the right timing, connection, and appropriate expression.

Worthiness is never a real question.  The question is do I have the relationship skills to participate effectively with life.  Often the answer is no, so I have to embark on the journey to learn the necessary skills.  My main obstacle is my child ego that insists I shouldn't have to change and learn new skills.  At this point my true self has to step in and assure the child ego that it is not who I am that has to change, just how I participate with life that needs refinement.  My child ego usually pouts at this point because it still thinks of itself as the center of the universe so everyone else should change and adapt to its needs and wants.  But since that is not true, my real self is able to review the feedback and evidence life constantly gives us with the child ego that we are just one tiny part of a much bigger something, and the child ego gives in...reluctantly. 

I believe it is this home project perspective of life that prompts me to frequently engage in home projects around the house.  I enjoy the feeling of accomplishment that comes from a job well done that I can easily see and use day to day.  The experience of completing a home project is much more tangible feeling than most of the mental and emotional "home" projects I am usually working on.

This last week my home project has been to reconstruct the side deck on my house.  The support beams and many of the top boards had rotted through and were no longer safe to walk on.  I tackled stripping the old deck away two weeks ago, which entailed pulling out about 200 four-inch nails.  Fortunately my friend Dr. Fisher offered to help me with the rebuilding of the deck.  We went down to the lumberyard and bought some 4x6 treated beams and spent most of Saturday a week ago rebuilding the substructure of the deck.  I had placed an order for the redwood deck material for delivery Monday.

It was scary knowing I had spent $600 on this little pile of redwood 9 inches deep, 3 feet wide, and 12 feet long.  I spent lunchtime Monday dragging all 1600 pounds of it back to the deck piece by piece.

Dr Fisher met me at 2pm Thursday to install the deck pieces.  This was a much faster process due in large part to a really cool impact driver he owned for driving the screws into the wood.  In 3 hours we had the deck surface screwed down.  All I really had left to do was build a set of stairs - a 2 hour Saturday morning project - to finish off the construction.  Today I will seal the wood for water protection.

About fifteen minutes after Dr Fisher left on Thursday, Ellen arrived home and showed off her own "home project."  A client of hers had asked her to design a floral graphic for a line of sun protective clothing she was creating.  Ellen had been at a trunk show debut of the new clothing line and came home with an example of how the project had turned out.  It was beautiful.

Ellen's client had contracted skin cancer several years ago and decided that there was a need for clothing that would protect sensitive people from excess sunlight exposure.  This debut was the culmination of 5 years of work getting her "home project" off the ground.  Her website is here. 

An interesting side note: Ellen initially presented the client with several different flower graphics.  The one that turned out to be the most attractive was of an Echinacea flower - probably the most healing and immune system supporting flower available.

Completing challenging but achievable goals builds self-confidence - an essential character trait for success in life.  Choosing goals that are meaningful to you and fit your character gives you intrinsic motivation.  Whether you are building something simple like a deck or something difficult like a relationship, stick with things and relationships that are personally meaningful - things that you love to participate with.  This is part of asserting your design perfection.

Dr Fisher loves working on his Mercedes SUV - it is meaningful to him.  Personally I hate working on cars, so I don't do it.  I do love working with wood, so the deck was perfect for me.  I really appreciate the finished product.  Ellen loves her artwork.  The fact that her love also met the need of her client is an example of that timing, connection, and appropriate expression I mentioned in the beginning.  Our highest expression is when we gift the world with our creations of love.  When we make the right connections, we are supported for those expressions of our love.  To me, this is what life is all about.    

 

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David     
   

 

 

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years.  He began experimenting with  medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis.  In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education.  Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic.  He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice. 
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health. 
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities. 
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth.  The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework.  Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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