Contradiction as Possibility for Dynamic Choice
Life is always borne upon seeming contradictions: good and bad, simplicity and complexity, clarity and ambiguity. Life finds motion as energy in the resolution of contradiction because in truth from the soul’s perspective there is no contradiction only balance.
Contradiction in its static view feels like it demands you choose one or the other. However, contradiction in its dynamic flow is about uncovering for yourself unlimited possibility and infinite choice otherwise obscured by the static view of either/or. As we begin to integrate our physical experience with our spiritual experience, we begin to see contradiction not as an obstacle limiting choice but as a path towards deeper understanding, experience, and empowered choice.
Take simplicity and complexity, notions which can be both obstruction and open channel. “Make it simple” can be both an understanding to find clarity and a movement towards denial. Complexity can add layers of meaning while also being its own movement toward denial. Is life better in its simplicity or its complexity? Both. Neither. One or the other?
As with any contradiction, the answer comes from following your truth. In any situation exploring contradiction helps you find the threads of your journey and helps you clarify which direction to choose. Most often, you will find that all sides have something of relevance to consider and contribute. Dynamically, contradiction is never just either/or, usually a little of both. And as you begin to look at contradiction as a journey instead of a dilemma, contradiction can also be understood through the understanding which lies secreted behind the either/or of the static view. Unseen gifts ready to offer inspiration and new possibility.
In Joy!
Cheryl
Life Purpose Right Before Your Eyes
Your journey of a lifetime begins not with a step but with the willingness to consider a new possibility, a new perspective, a new personal truth.
Allowing the new allows your next step to adventure into new territory, into new possibilities.
Your willingness to consider is the break with a past which no longer serves, creating in this moment your soul’s life journey.
Your life purpose doesn’t exist in some magical world accessible only by the elite and the gifted. Your life purpose unfolds right before you each time you consider new possibilities and feel within the truth of your next step.
Know Thyself is an active process of self-discovery, not a process of pre-ordained, imposed steps to the easy life. Your life purpose is thus not a stagnant thing, pre-determined and beyond your control.
Your life purpose is the unfolding happening within that you create and that you claim and that you follow because you feel the truth and know it to be your life’s journey, your life’s purpose.
The Pressure of Fear
Fear is worry about the future. In Fear, you leave the powerful point of this moment and freeze yourself in some imagined moment in the future where you have no room for anything but the fear.
Fear is also a bodily sensation. Your gut clenches, your shoulders stiffen, your breathing is interrupted. Your worry that your worst fears will materialize — especially if you don’t do something, now.
One of the most insidious aspects of Fear is that it pushes us to do exactly the opposite of what will bring us relief and a perspective for powerful action. In other words, fear pushes us to act out of fear, to act because we are afraid. Fear wants us to blindly accept the terror of an only imagined future. Fear hopes to dupe us into acting against our best interests. Fear goads us into acting from aversion.
Concluding you think you know what will and will not happen is the problem. As human beings we have a limited view of all the infinity possibility which exists in this moment and expands ever wider in the next moment. We can often intuit the next possible moment. However we also must consider that part of the problem is that when we act in fear we contribute to our future the stomach-clenching energy of aversion, terror and fear. When you act from fear your contribution to All That Is is your fear. Thinking to avoid fear by contributing your fear only generates more fear, creating a circle of fear within you and within your world. You choose one to avoid the other and instead of getting relief, you only get more fear which tempts you once again to continue the vicious circle of unending fear.
Instead of reacting in fear, there is an alternative: Choice. Can you stand in a place where you acknowledge that you do not know it ALL? Instead, can you stand in a place where you allow the best expression of all to exist? Can you allow for possibility that you can not see? Can you choose to move from a peaceful or joyfully inner sense where you feel the excitement of a future unfolding beyond the limits of fear?
Fear is not an arcane discussion reserved only for the spiritually adept. Fear is a real issue that pokes at all of us everyday. Economics, the weather, our health and more all bring us face to face with fear and the possibility of choice all day long.
Consider our current political climate. How have you made your choice about who to vote for? Have you chosen one side over the other because of worry, anxiety, and fear raised within you by the other side?
I know that there is much for me personally that makes it very difficult to not choose out of fear. I can almost get myself hyperventilating over what that “crazy guy” proposes as solutions to political, social, cultural, economic, and spiritual upheaval. I could very easily go to bed each night bathed in a cloak of worry. But life lived always because of fear is a life lived always in fear.
I reject a fearful life. I know that my life can be richer and fuller without the doom of fear.
More importantly, fear is not what I want to contribute to myself and others. If I live in fear then all I have to offer is fear.
Instead, I believe that I always have a choice — in any situation. I always get to decide how I will react and act in any situation. I choose, here and now, to live my life experiencing the joy of choice. I will make my decisions based on the excitement raised within me about the possibilities of my life. I will allow the infinite possibility of the mazing universe to bring toward me more than I could ever imagine. And in doing so, I will live by the intention of contributing possibility, opportunity, and choice to the world around me. A life lived because of joy is a life lived always in joy.
As you contemplate the choices you have before you in this political season, I urge you to support your candidates out of the excitement raised in you by them as the amazing individuals that they are. The future will be what the future will be and in this moment you have the powerful option to decide what you will contribute. Consider carefully the many downsides of choosing one candidate because of the worry, anxiety, and fear raised within you by their opponent. Instead, release the tension in your shoulders, take a breath, unclench those aching muscles. Breathe in and exhale. Now … Claim your freedom to live free of fear. Affirm: I no longer live my life in fear. I choose to live my life in joy, excitement, wonder, and peace. All my actions begin with my choice!
In Joy!
Cheryl
P. S. If somehow this seems rather naive, that nothing can overcome the realities of our dire situation, then know that this is the choice that you have made and that for you fear has won. Peace begins at home, within you. Peace, joy, excitement, wonder, and balance are all choices we make about what goes on inside our minds, bodies, and hearts.
Blueprint for Action
Opening the Akashic Records of Mother Earth & Planet Earth, I asked the following question and received this answer.
Q. What can I do to improve the conditions of my physical environment?
A. In short, first align your being and then allow your actions to flow from the balanced center of your alignment. Here are the steps.
1. Align your Being: This is 99% of what you do to be most effective in your action within the physical environment. It is also the step most humans neglect. Instead you jump immediately into pity, blame or fear. The most positive choice is to move into action/doing by connecting to the deep potential and possibility of our planet. Here’s how to align and connect: “
* Transform Pity into Potential: When you see an environmental situation you don’t like most of you gasp with the feeling, “Oh no, that poor planet! How awful!” This is expressing pity. Feeling pity cuts you off from the deep possibility available in every situation. Learn to look at all situations around you recognizing the possibility available. Envision and feel the situation transforming into a deeper, fuller expression of its deepest being. It is not necessary to see actual outcomes. You provide even more possibility by feeling the situation expressing its deepest potential than by seeing how it might look actually expressed. Now pity has become potential. “
* Transform Blame into Acceptance: When you see an environmental situation you don’t like, do you respond with “Look what those people did to my planet?” Blame locks everyone in the past, a place where power-over conflict becomes the only path to resolution. If you want to change a situation, you need to move into the present, the only place where the potential of the situation comes to fruition. Acceptance doesn’t mean that you agree with the actions or beliefs of “those people”. Acceptance is neutral evaluation. Most importantly with acceptance you move from the past stuck in blame in to the present where choice is available. “
* Transform Fear into Choice: The fear of “will it always be this bad” locks you into a future separated from all possibility. Look in your heart and feel within yourself the endless possibility available to you. Know that every environmental situation that you fear will never change is filled with the some endless possibility you have. Stuck in fear, you limit the expression and development of this possibility. Instead say, “I feel fear about this situation.” Feel how the issue unlocks from the future and moves into your present moment as you bring your feeling from the future to the present. Without fear or pity or blame, the situation is fully present to possibility and you stand in your powerful place of choice, free of judgment of yourself or others.
2. Determine Your Action: To find the perfect action now, connect with the magic of deep possibility. Feel in your heart your connection will all that is. Feel the expansive movement of endless possibility within you and within the situation. Feel how all choice is in total alignment with you and you are in total alignment with endless possibility. From the balanced light in your heart ask, “What is it for me to do in this environmental situation?” Through your heart, listen for the answer. Wait for the answer to come to you. It is being sent to you from the universe and will come if you stand ready to receive. Don’t be surprised if the answer is about continuing to connect and align your being rather than specific action. The world is overly full with folks acting without being. If you dare to receive fully and without reservation or judgment, the universe will respond, taking you ever higher into deep universal potential and the Earth’s deepest love.
Step Past Your Resistance
Let us start today by discussing resistance. This is a natural feeling within all beings as it is the natural reaction to the natural flow of life. Life has its own rhythm, balance and flow. As humans interact with Life, your own natural rhythms, balances and flows sometimes bump, sometimes flow, sometimes collide with Life. In the collision human beings most often interpret the collision as a sign that something is off, wrong, out of kilter with either Life, others, or themselves.
As humans become more conscious of this process, you think, “OK, I’ll live my life in such a way that collision doesn’t happen.” This is a reaction that chooses resistance. The logic is that by resisting or avoiding collision, life will flow more smoothly, be more comforting, more pleasing. The result is living life by avoiding Life. This creates dependence on resistance and avoidance as they become habit, a way of life. For most of you this dependence has permeated your being so deeply and so profoundly, that it is very difficult to see or feel that not only did you choose to live life in resistance, but that you have the opportunity make a choice NOW to live differently.
Let’s start back at the beginning: Life has its own rhythm, flow and balance. Humans each have their own individual rhythm, flow and balance. Living life is about humans interacting, integrating, and colliding with Life’s flow. This interaction is made up of every type of action and experience you can think of including peace, satisfaction, passion, joy, upsets, disappointments and collisions. There is no point resisting even a part of what Life has to offer because Life will be what Life is, fully and completely. Your resistance to even a part of Life sets up resistance to all of Life and, even more importantly, interferes with your ability to be fully and completely who you are.
The powerful, empowering choice is fullness, wholeness, totality. Choosing only comfort, only the tolerable, the safe never guarantees there won’t be collisions. It only guarantees that the feelings and the results of the collision and resistance will have to go underground or find a different path to get your attention. Since external conflict is always a result of inner turmoil, you can see first hand how resistance channels collisions into other venues hoping to catch your attention.
Joy in life comes from embracing Life’s totality, the good, the bad, the ugly, the challenge, and the safety. Step up for yourself, past your resistance, and claim the wholeness of your life!
