Aaron Rodgers is 39 years old, a superstar NFL quarterback, and he signed with the New York Jets this summer with the intent to help them win their first Super Bowl since 1969.
A few days ago, Rodgers shared how he visualizes winning the Super Bowl “all the time.” He described it as a part of “training your mind and being intentional with your words [and] the manifestation of those thoughts and goals and dreams into reality. You first have to have that belief.”
Last night, four plays into his debut, Rodgers torn his Achilles tendon, will have surgery, and won’t be able to play this season.
One of the hardest truths for those who visualize in order to manifest a positive outcome in their lives, or pray for divine intervention, is how to interpret events when hopes for the future go sideways, or even tragically backwards?
Derek Des Islets is a Brooklyn based artist whose paintings sell for thousands of dollars. I enjoy his work and as his website puts it, his “paintings are intuitively formed and spiritually guided visual descriptions of the quantum nature of reality.”
I recently came across his painting “Circuitous Linear Topology” (you’ll find a photo of it at on-emotions.com). In his painting colorful lines move horizontally and vertically. Some continue and others fade. Many are seemingly laid on top of each other.
The only answer I have why visualizations and prayers don’t always end in places we wish is although we hope our life will always extend in a forward direction, there are times when our life-line is more circuitous. It moves and is experienced like Islets’ painting. Life is sometimes, in other words, “circuitous linear topology.”
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