Crisis or Clear-out?

Drama and disaster sells and the media catastrophises most things to get our attention. The word “crisis” is over used and often inappropriately applied. Change and upheaval in life is often seen as a crisis but how we see something depends on how well we handle change. At the time when all seems to be falling apart, we can feel a sense of crisis but after it’s over and we look back we may well view what happened differently because we can see the bigger picture with hindsight and retrospective wisdom.

No matter how much we may dislike it, change is as inevitable as death and taxes and for good reason. A stream that never flows slowly dies. Like beavers we do like to dam up our stream of life with safe shelters. Resisting the flow of change may feel safe but it creates stagnation in our stream. We can either embrace change or resist it. It’s instinctive to resist but those that do are in denial of the true nature of life as a human being.

If we embrace it and be excited in that moment of uncertainty, we let the universe bring its gifts to us with new situations, relationships or careers. If we resist it and rush to put things back to how they were before, we risk missing out on something truly amazing that life wanted to bring to us. Humans often get in their own way through fear and see change as threatening. This creates a strong desire to feel safe and keep things as they are but we may well be doing more harm than good.

Many of us don’t consciously know why we’re here and what we set out to do in this life time. If we don’t know then how can we be certain that, by resisting change, we’re not blocking the unfolding of our life’s purpose? What if we can finally get cracking on our life’s work but we’re in the wrong place right now? What if we need to move house in order meet certain people or change careers? All things being equal, humans don’t budge from where they are unless they are levered out of their safe space and this usually entails some kind of shock, trauma or what we see at the time as a crisis. I’m pretty sure I would still be an engineer (it paid well, I was good at it but I didn’t like it) unless I had become ill and was forced into learning more about healing.

Of course, when upheaval happens, the fear of the unknown often comes with it but not knowing is neither good nor bad. Not knowing can mean “I wonder what's in the next exciting chapter of my life?” or it can mean “I hate this, I must do all that I can to feel safe right now”. The latter is understandable but be aware that .............................

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