In a world where you are told to pick your lifetime career before you're allowed to vote, growth and transformation are not the mindsets the majority of us grew up in.
Unless you were in a competitive environment such as sports, you were probably told your only growth should be to a master's degree and a large house. Follow a simple plan, receive expected results. Easy enough to produce and scale up for masses right? Wrong.
- Why is it that many humans have not obtained those promised results?
- Why is it that the future the humans held for us in the 1900's is not the present day we currently have, with our future teetering on the edge of destruction?
- Why is everything designed to remain the same, leaving little to no room for innovation?
The answer to all those whys does exist. Yet it also an infinite answer. Perhaps it is a better method to focus on whether or not we personally want to be involved in such notions.
We can ask ourselves,
- Have others been successful with an alternate path?
- What would my motivations be for following a different path?
- If there isn't a 'career' from a college that I'd like to learn, what IS it that I want to learn?
Answering those questions will be a great start. You can start to find others that have done what you desire to achieve, then find out how they did it. You probably won't walk in their footsteps yet you will learn many valuable perspectives.
Following your dream path will challenge you. The general public, friends, and most likely family, may start to call you crazy or show signs of jealousy about your new confidence and desire to dream big. They may say it's not logical or predictable and secure. They don't realize that is the point. This dimension is one of three planes. Logic is only one of them- the mind. We have two other planes to work with, the physical, and the spiritual. By spiritual, we can define that as 'things that are unseen'. What does "things that are unseen"? The air is unseen. Gravity is unseen. You may not notice gravity to be very spiritual in the sense we understand that word as....until you jump out of an airplane with a parachute, then gravity feels quite spiritual very quickly. The point here is to find your motivations because you will need them on your journey to stay strong and stay the course.
Many times, our change and transformation is sparked by us noticing that we can no longer deal with our issues, either running from issues, pretending like they don't exist, or avoiding to confront them. We get tired of feeling like a victim. It is the difference between feeling like a bystander, constantly distracted by external events that do not pertain to oneself, and that of feeling accepted, belonging, and being an active, effective participant of life... a co-creator of life.
You have heard of how a caterpillars cocoons before transforming into a butterfly or how a seed needs to be buried in the dark and remain unchecked until it's ready to peak through on it's own, we would do well to take lessons from these phenomenons of nature. Growing can be beautiful and also messy. Our energies are like a pendulum, swinging back and forth. For every up, there is a down. The more you learn to remain equanimous, the easier of a time you will have.
Why is change and transforming scary? Security and survival issues are found within change. As we grow, we cultivate our energy, starting from the base chakra up to the crown chakra. Through each steps of growth, we will encounter lessons, trials, and blessings associated with each chakra. Usually the first to kick off our growth is triggered at the base. We won't go into chakras, you can find more information to learn about them here. As we grow, energy blockages are removed, requiring us to have a firm grounding as a foundation. Security on oneself cannot be obtained from others, but rather from our own experiences, the feeling of security must be cultivated.
The first transformation of growth is the usually the most exciting or the most scary, both emotions are the same energy-only perspective of the mind will determine how you perceive it. The first transformation starts with the root, as energy travels upward. This is where growth begins. Each and every initiation we undergo must first be rooted firmly in the root chakra. Otherwise, you growth will remain stagnant and the lessons will be repeated until you accept and learn this.
Once we get past our first round of growth, the others become easier, as long as you remember that growth and lessons are the purpose. The purpose is not to always be happy. This is Earth, all emotions exist, all the time.
- We can learn from our first bout with change that the downs will not last forever.
- We can hold faith in the outcome-even if we aren't sure what that is (again the grounding and being secure issue comes up.)
- When we have faith that our situation is only temporary, we can turn focus on the growth itself and see what it is asking of us.
- We can make the choices that pertain to NOW, and let the future be the future.
Beginning our healing work will set us on a path to discover alignment. We begin to respect the guidance that is brought in and trust the bigger picture. On this level, we no longer perceive things being as punishment or reward, guilt or innocence, but only that of universal love continuing to unfold in many ways within our lifetime.
Transforming will make you feel things you have not felt before. Whether it is an expansive and overwhelming journey of joy and wonder, or a withdrawal of a dark night while you visit your shadows, remember to embrace it and it too shall pass.
Much Love,
Debb Ashby
"Find The Lesson"
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