Always Another Opportunity

As I mentioned in my last entry, everything is open to interpretation and the one I like best is that everything that happens is actually hear to support my true intention (conscious or unconscious).

A few days ago I had the opportunity to experience yet another wonderful example of events showing up to support making peace with my past and opening to new experiences. I was made privy to information about a past venture which didn't feel very good to me. I found myself getting judgmental and feeling sad about it all. Then I started to wonder what that was really about. It didn't take long to realize that at an unconscious level I had been hanging on to something I considered to be my baby which is now grown up and no longer mine to nurture. I even had a dream about it this morning that really accentuated the fact that I was no longer connected to this entity from my past and it was time to truly bless it and let it go, consciously. I had left physically and mentally yet there were still emotional ties that have been keeping me somewhat trapped in a world of what ifs and shoulds (see Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda entry from a couple of weeks ago). Some of these concepts and attachments are so subtle and we're so used to being there it's difficult for us to recognize them at times. But the Universe provides and I have been given the opportunity to bring these subtle energies to the surface and face them straight on with compassion and understanding so that this part of the grieving process can continue to unfold.

I no longer feel sad about it, at least not at this moment. I can't say it's all done and gone because that isn't how this tends to work but I am on the other side of the hill, able to be fully present to the now as I lovingly release what might have been in the fantasy world.

Now I am free to wonder what new possibilities are coming to be realized through me today.

Are you making peace with your past so that you can be fully present to what is now? My sense is that this is part of the gathering of energy that we need to do in order to step into what is and what will be with grace and ease (in other words so that we won't suffer so much with the changes that are taking place). I don't really know what that means, it's just there.

The image that comes up for me is like these two galaxies that look as though they are about to collide. There is destruction in the collision yet there is something greater waiting to be born.

Check into your inner being and get in touch with what's right for you.

Namaste

Open to Interpretation

Life is always giving us exactly what we need. Unfortunately, we don't always interpret things that way. It's all wonderful and great when what shows up are the people and the stuff we like and feel good about but watch out when the perfect thing doesn't feel so great.

One of the participants of my 5 week group coaching program made a comment last week about having to be careful what we ask for because we might not like what shows up. She's done lots of work and knows that when we invite change and expansion in our lives by moving toward the kind of experiences we really want, what's been in the way of our experiencing that in the past is what we are most likely to become aware of first. That generally does not elicit joy and a warm hearted welcome yet when we realize what's really going on, that is exactly the kind of response we can have.

Instead of 'Oh, no, not this again' as the reaction to uncomfortable experiences we can turn that around to a sincere 'Yeah! it's working!' We may not be able to do so right off the bat but the willingness to bring compassion and understanding to the inner experience while being truly and openly curious about what in us is reacting can soon facilitate the shift. The peace and flow and joy that rise up when we are fully present to fear, sadness, guilt, shame, anger with compassion instead of criticism is infinitely more rewarding than any distraction or avoidance mechanism that really only serves to reinforce the error that caused the discomfort in the first place. I say error because the reasons we are uncomfortable or hurt are generally based on false assumptions and beliefs with no real basis in truth. It's just what we decided, usually when we were between 2 and 5 years old, that we've been reliving over and over and over.

We don't have to keep reliving those experiences that cause pain or block us, at least not to the degree most of us have in the past, when we know what to do with them when they show up. We could interpret everything that happens as being for us. For us to bring love to, for us to realize as mistaken ideas, for us to move beyond, for us to expand in awareness, flow and love.

It's all in the interpretation. Go ahead, set yourself free.

Namaste