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Beautiful Irregularity and Uncertainty?

"Irregularity and unpredictability are important features of health. On the other hand, decreased variability and accentuated periodicities are associated with disease. Healthy systems don't want homeostasis. They want chaos." –J.R. Van Eenwyk, "The Chaotic Dynamics of Everyday Life," Quest Magazine

Many of the systems that orchestrate the ebb and flow of resources in our lives have changed.  Some feel that change is irrevocable.  I hope so.  What we seem to have forgotten in our shock and fear is that before “the economic collapse” we were complaining about these very systems that just collapsed.  We wanted them to change, to move away from corporate greed, self serving war-mongering, and the rape of the world’s natural resources. Remember?  We weren’t so happy with “the system.”

Our emotional responses to the uncertainty in our lives are natural.  I see retraction and pulling away from anything new or uncomfortable, sadness for the losses as businesses close and jobs are lost, and cycling fear as we realize how deeply we were seduced into debt and disconnection.  These are reasonable emotional responses to what appears to be going on around us, but we must feel those feelings and let them go or we will be stuck here.  If we get stuck we will manifest the same thing once again.  We must remember; that which abides remains, stable and solid.  The real energies below the surface of things continue to flow and move and support life.

We have opportunities to seize.  Feel what you are afraid to feel so that you can move out of survival triggered fear and think straight for a minute.  You can choose to step out of fear so that you can use your heart and use your skills.  This time of uncertainty is a great opportunity precisely because it is so very much easier to affect the flow of things in motion than it is to get them moving in the first place.  Think of how hard it is to start that new weight loss program at the gym or go back to school.  Things are moving now, irregularly and unpredictably.  You can make anything happen now. Risk it.  Your energy is the essential energy to make anything happen in your life.  If you remain retracted in fear you will manifest retraction and fear.  If you choose to transform then you will create transformation.

What systems do you want to see in place?  What values do you want the new systems built on? What matters most to you?  Right now while things are influx and uncertainty is The Time to focus your intention on what you want to create in your life.  Clear your heart of the fear inspired emotions the changes around you have triggered so that your heart is available to help you to manifest what you love in your life.

Most importantly, act.  Look at yourself.  Have you retracted in fear from life? I see people everywhere withdrawing from healing sessions, retreats, and education: in short all of the things that support the transformation in their lives.  How can you hope to create a new future for yourself if you are the same person as before?  We have only one choice here and it begins by stepping out of fear, breathing deeply, and reopening our hearts to the uncertainty in life.  If we want a new life or a new world we must act.  And we must act from new motivations born of our own fearless transformation.