walking the sacred spiral
walking the sacred spiral
Several times recently I have had a conversations with clients who feel they have really done everything they know how to do to be open to guidance, to let go of control and surrender to what wants to come forth, and to ask for help, yet things seem to be getting worse rather than better.
I’ve experienced this myself. It can frustrate us enough to question our faith when we feel that what we have used so effectively in the past is not working at all. We wonder whether what we believe is real and true spiritually is accurate.
There are a lot of possible reasons why our affirmations, treatments, meditations and prayers seem to be failing us, even while we think we’re doing our best to stretch and to be welcoming and expectant of good.
The first and most obvious is that it is difficult to be truly expectant of our good when the struggle has lasted a while. We might resort to hoping, wishing, begging, bargaining and wondering instead.
Another possibility is that our own soul’s journey is richer and more complex than we realize. What our soul is working on may be more important than our surface mind’s preferences, comparisons and desires.
Does anybody really know what your soul came here to give and to learn? Is ease and accumulation what we took birth for? Or is it possible there is something deeper at work?
What qualities would we have to work with to become happy with things just as they are? Perhaps we seriously need more of those qualities on a soul level, so our unwillingness to grow in that way creates the very block we’re struggling with.
Why would we resist this way? Often we fear that if we become happy with things as they are, they will never change and we’ll be stuck.
Perhaps a spiritual guru has suggested that our real function here is to enjoy ourselves and do whatever we want, so we feel inadequate when that isn’t happening for us. Maybe that’s true for some of us and not as true for others. Even if it were true, wouldn’t the game include finding our way to happiness and fun in the midst of every circumstance and appearance? Isn’t that the ultimate demonstration of having faith and trusting God?
A third possibility for why our spiritual transformation tools seem to fail us is that while we are actually on our way to more success and greater ease, we have forgotten that a good ending is ensured, and we’ve lost heart. Our energy has become depleted, and we haven’t been replenishing ourselves. We are approaching the goal but we can’t see it yet, so it seems as if it will never show up.
Or maybe we have become stingy and unappreciative with ourselves and with Life, and the universe is just mirroring that back to us. We’ve gotten stuck in ideas of how our good should come, what it should look like and when it should appear, so we stubbornly refuse everything that doesn’t resemble our picture.
A huge leap in spiritual awareness happens as we find our balance in difficult times and allow ourselves to be happy and unworried even when we aren’t sure how things could work themselves out. How would you know you had grown into this kind of awareness if you never experienced a challenge to your equanimity?
Compare how you respond to upsets in your life today with how you reacted ten years ago. Notice if your patterns have changed. If you maintain or return to balance more easily or more quickly, the universe is giving you feedback on your soul’s awakening.
If we easily and quickly won every game we played, and always knew that we would, games would be boring. What’s fun is the process of testing our skills without knowing how well we’ll do until we’re doing it. Some days we are right on target. Other days not so much. Quitting in discouragement does little to make us quicker, stronger and better at playing. It just sidelines us out of the game.
So treat yourself well. Be patient with the mystery of you. Replenish your energy. Refuse to give up. Find things that make you laugh. Look at the beauty all around you for free: the sky is there for everyone as a wonder every day. Progress yields to persistence, so persist. That’s how the world changes, and that’s how today’s challenge will be transformed.
And remember this: the Mind of God is omnipresent (everywhere), so It is where you are. That Mind already knows multiple ways to solve this challenge, and that knowing is also right where you are. That Mind is able and willing (omnipotent) to make these ideas known to you in a way that you can understand and respond to. When you refuse to give up, the Universe swoons and yields up its great wisdom.
If you knew there were at least two more ways to address your problem that you haven’t yet tried, what would they be?
The Universe Wants to Yield to You
Tuesday, March 31, 2015