It’s fall. You might be noticing some old things fall away. That can be uncomfortable. Sometimes it feels excruciatingly uncomfortable! CHANGE can be uncomfortable. There is, well, always, some uncomfortable change happening in the world. Right now seems extra. Some of the shift that we’re doing individually is pretty dang uncomfortable too. I feel it in my life, and I’m hearing about it from clients and friends. Sometimes that feels like nostalgia or wishing that things could go back to the way they were or just a general desire for comfort. For safety. For something ELSE to be happening besides what is actually happening right now!
I think what eases me is the knowing that change has to happen. Life Itself keeps growing, expanding and moving. That’s the natural, dependable way of it. Water finds a way. Love finds a way. Beauty finds a way. Growth finds a way. To us, from our limited perspective, sometimes that growth feels like things are off-kilter. Like things are bad, wrong, shouldn’t be happening. But to Life, it’s necessary shift. It’s natural.
WE are life. YOU are life. What is happening is for you. As Byron Katie says: Life is happening for you, not to you. Could we see everything that is happening as a gift from Life? What if we could embrace and welcome it? For me, even considering that changes my experience of it.
It makes sense to me that I am part of life, not separate. And it makes sense that LIFE is going to change in ways that are necessary even though I might not understand it.
So would it help us to maybe relax into the river of shift? Maybe relax and let the timing take care of itself? Maybe we can stay open and wonder about what this thought, event, feeling or circumstance might be paving the way for.
Maybe we can be tender, loving and even appreciative with ourselves as we walk through change. We’ve been through a lot. And we’re doing incredibly well as we experience those sometimes sudden and other times slow fires of transformation.
Take a minute. This is extraordinary. All the newness that has arrived from previous change is extraordinary. WE are extraordinary.
Want to celebrate with me? We can celebrate even as we might be crying. We can celebrate the fullness together even as things fall away. And what about even celebrating the falling away itself?
I’m sending some gentle love and blessings to you all this fall. In this time of change, our hearts are connected and I really feel that we are always held by Whatever It Is that changes everything.
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So much love,
CB
