Fearlessly Moving into a New Season
Practical Ways to Relax and Choose Change
“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we look to Mother Nature we can appreciate the beauty in each season, each for its own gifts. Our life is much the same and within our lifecycle we have smaller cycles repeated yearly, monthly, weekly, daily. Each inviting us to appreciate the wonder in every stage of our lives.
The beginning of a new season is Mother Nature’s way of reminding us of the cycle of change. Things are not meant to stay the same and in fact, cannot. The golden days of summer are moments to be enjoyed, appreciated for the gifts of light, rich greens and golds, and the crystalline shimmer of aquamarine as sunlight bounces over the water. The temperature cools and our focus once again turns to creating gezellig a wonderful Dutch term for a cosy and inviting ambiance. This is the perfect space for contemplation and introspection.
Love the Physical Self
Our aware self knows this physical form is merely our vehicle to appreciate our time on Earth. We can choose to spend time angst-ing over its form and appearance, or we can offer our bodies gratitude for allowing us to participate on the Earth plane.
When we understand this we can release self criticism and choose to let the debris and flotsam of illusion drift away, to let ‘things’ that no longer serve go. Perhaps we are holding onto ideas, beliefs, flawed core values, relationships, even objects, that no longer serve our highest good. In this season of the Southern harvest, we review what we have grown and congratulate our choices. We also take this time to identify what we will sow and how we will nurture our next crop. This evaluation allows us to modify our actions, to try something new, and to see each experience as the richness of life that informs and guides.
Often, instead of using this growth structure, our busy brains undertake mental gymnastics, ruminating over what should have or could have been.
Time for change!
Yet this can only Happen if we are Fearless
It takes courage to look at our experiences, allow emotions as guidance, and then examine what created the discomfort. If the event was wonderful, more of those occasions please! Yet it is all about duality and we are asked to recognise that discomfort also holds a purpose. These experiences show us what we are not and invite us to let go, to choose something better.
Some will say this is much easier said than done (me included sometimes!). Yet once we have a willingness to change a pattern that no longer serves, such as worry for example, we are in the right place to end our negative focus. This becomes easier when we take a moment to consider what worry offers:
Consumes minutes, hours, days or even a lifetime of emotional energy spent on an event or events that may never eventuate.
Can manifest anxiety, anguish, depression, robbing us of sleep.
Sets us up to create more of the same - where attention goes, energy flows.
Prevents us from appreciating the moment.
When we stop the re-run and simply look at the events that created discomfort, we can begin to decide how we might create differently.
It is that simple.
Get Creative
We give our mind a far more productive task when we ask it to stop, to examine, and to come up with alternatives. For example, did we need to say ‘no’, to create a boundary for ourselves and others, choose something entirely different, or stop reacting from a trigger point?
One of the most powerful tools we have is to take our attention away from the things that we don’t want, the things that are not in our highest good, and to focus how we DO want it to be as if it were already here.
Change is a Beautiful Season
Figuring out what we do want requires us to get quiet. To create space to listen to our hearts, and to allow what we want for ourselves to come to the surface. It is when we tap into our heart thoughts that we access our true direction. Yes, it can come with a risk of discomfort. If we have been determinedly ignoring our hearts due to the noise from our busy, worrying brains it is likely that allowing ourselves to FEEL is going to come with some squirming.
Do it anyway.
Sit with the Experience and Notice what no Longer Serves
Remember the purpose of our feelings is to show us the joy we are and to remind us that discomfort is only a layer of limitation we have allowed to settle upon ourselves. Let emotions move through the body and out. We are not defined by our experiences. They were only ever part of the unending cycle of change.
Beware Sitting in Regret
Once we identify our new crop, it is not necessary to continue to focus or regret the failed crops of our past. We need every experience to learn and grow from. Just like a child, we cannot know what it is we need to learn differently until we actually learn it. We would not judge a child for learning in their own time, and to release self-criticism we must learn not to judge ourselves either. This self-criticism and judgment keep us focused on the past and that is not where growth occurs!
Practical ways to Relax and Choose Change
Once we have decided what it is we no longer need, we can choose new thoughts, new beliefs, or even space for new relationships.
Support change with:
meditation
journalling
affirmations
energy therapies
gentle movement
compassion to self
Sometimes our ego/mind can create such overwhelm that we need further support to relax, to let unhelpful thoughts go, and to move forward. If you feel you need support see your doctor, your mental health practitioner, and see an energy healer to align your subconscious programming with your new choices.
Love yourself more, you deserve it.
Blesssings
Michelle
Michelle Cowles
Spiritual learner, healer, and teacher
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