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Mining The Gifts Of Change
By Ada Porat

During times of change, we often experience an instinctive desire to control or direct the process. If we could only control the process, we would feel more comfortable with it – or so we think!

And so, we try all kinds of things to retain a sense of control by attempting to manage the pace, direction and volume of change in our lives. We flock to workshops on goal-setting and manifestation in an effort to control the outcomes of our changing lives.

In short, we attempt to shift our unfolding reality from one outcome to another in order to feel secure. Sadly, these attempts to manage outer conditions merely keep us at the whim of external effects. It keeps us focused on external outcomes to ensure inner happiness or security, rather than looking within.

When we try to control what our journey through life should look like, it also keeps us identified with the content of the process instead of the context, and in so doing we may miss the true blessing of enjoying the perfection of each moment as it unfolds.

There is a more effective way to navigate through change!

Identifying With The Contextual Field

You could choose to focus on the larger picture or context instead, and allow the details of content to be drawn to you by the current of life as it unfolds. As each wave of probabilities emerges, you have free choice to select which aspects of content to accept and which ones to let go of!

This is how it looks: If you are faced with a job change, for instance, you can focus on attracting a new a opportunity that would bring you into more appropriate alignment with your core values, for instance. This choice aligns you with the context of the field you wish to align with. Then, allow this contextual definition to draw to you specific opportunities to choose from. By identifying with the field, you can trust the current of life to bring you opportunities that are resonant with this attractor field, and you do not need to worry about controlling the process.

Really Letting Go

Change can take many forms as we move into new ways of being, leaving the old behind. We may need to leave behind relationships, jobs, friends, homes, neighborhoods, or other vestiges of the old that no longer serve us. As we let go of the old, there is a certain amount of grief that needs to be acknowledged so we can move on.

When we acknowledge the feelings of loss and grief, we are freed from the ties that bound us to circumstances and people at a previous place and time, and we are free to move on. It is very important to allow the expression of these emotions, for it is in the acknowledgement and expression that we find freedom and healing to move on. Emotions that are suppressed never go away – they simply resurface further down to road for us to deal with!

Flying Blind

In shamanic cultures, the bat is seen as powerful medicine. Bats do not have sight, yet dart about with incredible accuracy and speed because they trust their inner radar. In the chaos of sudden change, it may at first feel as if you’re flying blind. However, this is the time to connect with and trust your inner radar. When you connect to your inner guidance, the flight through the unknown takes you to higher ground.

It will also challenge you to surrender your preconceived concepts of life to embrace a greater reality. At any point along the road, you can choose to either resist or to surrender to the process of unfolding, trusting in the Divine guidance within you. As soon as you let go, the current of change can carry you to new perspectives with grace and ease.

Turbulence and Cross Currents

In the world of energy, a change in direction can be observed as a wave form that changes its current. Energies we had set in motion through previous choices continue to return like wave forms for a while afterwards. As we change direction by exercising new choices, the old and new wave forms result in overlapping waves and cross currents. The ensuing turbulence is often experienced as mental fog, confusion or overwhelm.

Don’t let this temporary sensation discourage you or throw you off course. It is part of the process of shifting directions! If you can remain standing during this time of change, the positive changes that are underway will result in a sense of greater clarity, ease and understanding.

Remembering Why

Overwhelm and confusion only arise when taking your eyes off the goal. When you feel overwhelmed by the process, simply bring your focus back to the reasons why you chose to make a change in the first place.

The very nature of change embodies a sense of upheaval. The turbulence of clashing beliefs, crashing hopes and the looming unknown force you to question many values you had simply accepted before. This is your great opportunity for choosing differently, bringing your life and all its outcomes into higher alignment with your soul’s purpose.

Fine-Tuning Your Compass

This time of flux also contains the chance to fine-tune your choices, bringing all energies into alignment so you can draw optimal outcomes into your life.

Each one of us creates our own reality, moment by moment. When you set your intention unwaveringly on reaching your highest potential, you become an unstoppable force. Your very being starts emanating the frequency of what you hold in mind, drawing resonant outcomes to you in every moment through your continuous intention.

This is a very appropriate time to ask yourself if you are living the life you really want. Are you doing what your heart desires, or are you compromising for the security of a job, social status or acceptance? Are you joyful or is dissatisfaction nibbling at your bones, causing you to feel cranky and blame others for your circumstances?

Remember, your experience is a choice.

To change your life, all you need to do is change your mind about things first. If your life doesn’t serve you well, you can change it! It’s as simple as that. The rest is simply a process, the process of outcomes unfolding in response to your intention.

The more consciously you participate in this process of creating your reality, the more you will embrace the outcomes that follow. All your thoughts, emotions, fears, desires and aversions factor into that which you attract in life.

If the outcome does not look like what you had intended, it may be helpful to realize that 90% of your thoughts, emotions, and fears are located in the subconscious. These subconscious elements can sabotage your best intentions. By clearing out limiting emotions and beliefs from the subconscious, you pave the way for your own evolution into your highest expression of being, and you attract optimal outcomes. This process of evolving, then, is the ultimate gift of change.

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