As seasons change, there is always a sense of anticipation for what the future holds. Even if many other aspects of our lives stay the same, the changes in daylight hours, temperature, and seasonal activities open up new opportunities to consider our lives anew.
Change is a fact of life. Sometimes we fear it and sometimes we embrace it. But we should always feel a sense of peace, confident in the knowledge that every experience takes us one step closer to manifesting our soul’s purposes. Every experience, every time.
Please join me in an Enrichment Exercise that will help you navigate times of change:
Take a few moments here to get yourself situated in a quiet place where you will not be disturbed. Get comfortable in your chair and relax.
Take several deep breaths, drawing into your body the presence of peace. This is the energy that has been surrounding humanity since the beginning of time. Take it into yourself, hold it, and allow yourself to soften as you exhale. Now bring in another breath, again, drawing to yourself that energy of peace. Take it in and allow it to go into the deepest part of your inner world. As you exhale, let go of any energies that are disturbing to you. Again, take into yourself this power of peace. Take it in from all areas of the cosmos, right into your own body, hold it, and surrender to it as you exhale.
Now, allow yourself to become aware of an infinitely powerful and loving source of Light that is above you, about 12 to 18 inches above your head, hovering over you at all times. As you become aware of this Light, it begins to rain down over you, pouring down in front, in back, and on both sides; very gentle and very efficient, moving from head to toe, carrying away from you any vibrations on you or around you that do not support who you really are.
In this state, scan your inner world. Observe your emotional state, looking for conditions of anxiety, fear, resentment, any kind of turbulence, any emotional turbulence. Now direct the Light to that emotion and hold it there. You do not want to force anything to change. Just hold the Light, and allow the Light to harmonize the emotions.
Now let that go, and bring your attention to your thoughts, to your thinking. Take a look and see what kind of thoughts you are thinking. You want to scan for thoughts that are upsetting you. Maybe the ideas you have are upsetting you or making you nervous. Now, bring the Light to your thoughts, and just hold your thoughts in the Light. Allow the Light to adjust your thoughts; let the Light raise the thoughts, correct them. Again, this is not something forced; it is something to allow.
Now let that go, and you will find yourself in a reasonable state of balance, a reasonable state of harmony. In this particular state, try to get a sense of how it could be for you to be in a state of peace. Free from fear, anxiety, resentment, self-pity; all of that is gone, and you are in a condition of peace. You are sensitive, compassionate, balanced, with a sense of joy, openness; strong, but soft. Get a sense of how that would be for you.
Let this possibility permeate you, and as you hold it, this very strong state of peace gets even stronger. Now, in this particular frame of consciousness, bring to mind some circumstance or situation that is coming up in your future that you are dreading. It could be in the near future, today, tomorrow, or it could be a few months down the line. This is a situation that just the possibility of it is really upsetting to you. When you think of this situation, you lose your peace. That is the situation you want to focus on.
In the protection of the Light, imagine yourself being there. You want to be in that situation, however you imagine it. You really want to imagine it as being as awful as you are afraid it will be. Let it be terrible. Everything is going wrong, everyone around you is doing what they always do, and it is driving you crazy. The situation is everything you do not want. Let that be.
Imagine yourself being at peace, though, in this situation. Everything is happening around you in the worst possible way, but somehow you are calm, clear, open, just allowing everything to be the way it is. Allowing everyone to be the way they are, and you are really unaffected. You are not in denial. You are not pretending. You can experience and really feel how protected you are. Allow yourself to experience the power of this peace. As the sense of peace gets stronger in you, allow this situation to dissolve.
Now, moving forward in your life, in this state of peace, take a moment to see what you really want to do. What do you really want to do with yourself? How would you want to spend your time in your life in your future, in this condition of peace?
See how you might want to spend your time in peace. Get a sense of how you would take care of yourself in the future in this space. Allow the Light to suggest for you what experiences and activities could support and enhance this space for you. In this state of consciousness, how would you treat other people? How would you be with them? Get a sense of yourself in your future being very free to love people without being self-conscious. In this state of peace and freedom, see what it is that you would like to bring to the world.
Now, let all of the images go. Just allow them all to dissolve, even as that state of peace remains. Breathe in deeply, and move back into your everyday life with a renewed sense of peace and harmony.