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….and in the midst of the chaos, remember what peace there may be in silence….
As we move into our new roles on the earth, change does not seem to be slowing down as we round the corner to the Summer Solstice within the next few months. It seems as though for many of us we are facing hurdle after hurdle, whether it is in our external world or in our internal worlds, so many shifts are happening around us, our heads have been left spinning and ready to rest in a place of peace.
We are craving balance in our lives now like no other time in the past. We know now, we have glimpsed images of who we want to be, we have met, if only fleetingly our highest selves and can not turn back to the life we have held in the past. As we struggle to figure out how this life that we are now living will ever get to a place in which we are truly embracing what it is that we want in life…..we only need to remember four important truths…
1. We are building. Anyone who knows anything about building anything, knows that it can be a messy and time consuming process that ends up costing us a lot more than we planned. My mother is in the middle of remodeling her house; for anyone that has ever gone through the process of building or renovating a home, you know that the process requires complete surrender. The plans that are originally made always go astray and somehow an unexpected bump in the road comes up consistently throughout the project. Know that the process of building our lives is no different. Patience is key with ourselves as we learn to live aligned with our virtues and shape the new worlds we will be living in.
2. We are both the students and the teachers in our own journeys and this role takes power and complete surrender. Remember back to your days as a student. Often, there were ways in which you were being taught that you did not enjoy, you had to learn to surrender to the teacher and the class and just follow your role as a student. As we have moved through our lives we are still in the role of student, still needing to surrender completely to the lessons in life’s classroom. For they are not always presented in the manner that we would like them to. The power however, comes in the discovery that we are also the teachers. Therefore, the lessons that we are learning are lessons that we choose to teach ourselves. Once we are able to realize that every bump in the road is an opportunity that we have created for ourselves to grow and learn, we can then begin to recognize our role as our own greatest teacher.
3. Embracing the unknown is absolutely necessary at this time. As we step further and further into the unknown our discomfort can become unbearable. However, we have chosen to walk in this direction on a subconscious level, knowing that it will bring our soul into the greatest alignment with Source possible. However, it can be the very steps that bring us the greatest growth that are the hardest to bear. Reminding ourselves that we must walk towards the unknown in order to truly rise above all of the ties that have kept us bound in the past is the greatest truth to hold onto at this time. Tell yourself when you wake up in the morning, I don’t know what this day will bring, but I know that as long as I walk in my personal integrity and hold to the highest version of who I know I am, I know that I will be moving in a direction that will help propel me forward in the future to recieveing everything that need to be me in this lifetime!
4. Breathing is our key to releasing everything that we need to let go. I am taking child-birthing classes right now and we are taught right away that breath is one of the most powerful ways to move through pain in the body. When a woman can allow herself to breathe with the pain in her body, to let her breath wash over the pain, and to allow your breath and the pain to become one, a new state of being is arrived at, and the possibility of ecstatic birth is alive. This is founded in the knowledge that a woman’s body is perfect and when we become one with it, birth reaches a place of spiritual perfection that is an ecstatic experience for both the mother and child. Breathing is also a powerful way to release out emotions, allowing the emotions to wash over us, instead of tensing and holding the motion in our bodies is one of the most efficient ways to release emotionally charged situations from our lives. SO with the power to both transform pain and the fear that lies underneath all negative emotions, breathing deeply into your body and releasing that breath into the universe becomes a universal cure that costs no money, requires no tools and can be done anywhere in the world.
And at the end of the day, know that you are indeed moving forward, even if sometimes it feels like a snails pace. Take some time to focus on your accomplishments, on what you have gotten done, for it through our energetic focus in this area of our lives that growth will begin to bloom faster than we can ever imagine in. Take time each day to stop and ask yourself, what have I accomplished today? With this simple shift in focus we can begin to create a blueprint for our perspectives for the upcoming year. For this is the year of the ox, a time of persistence, hard work, and compassion. The sooner we align with these energies, the easier our transition will become, and the faster we will find our external realities becoming aligned with all of the transformation that has taken place on the inside…..
