In an effort to forward the consciousness of spring, I’m writing about it.  It’s been a hefty winter and I’m sure a lot of us are ready to see it go.

If you observe nature, its instinct is to grow.  The same goes for us humans, but we thwart our growth with logic and common sense.  Maybe it’s more accurate to say we halt our growth with our fears.  There is no doubt that there is healthy fear like the fear of touching fire, going into dark alleys or giving all your money to the next stranger that knocks on your door. However, for the most part, our logic and fear weigh in heavily and squash our natural instinct to grow.

“I’m too old.”

“I can do that, I have no credentials!”

“I’m not leadership material.”

“I don’t have time.”

“I have a mortgage to pay!”

These shouts from our ego are meant to protect us from ridicule or failure, but what they really are inhibitors of growth.  When you are fidgety in a job, daydream of new horizons or feel the urge to break out of the ordinary, it is a natural pull towards new growth.  Just like a houseplant grows in the direction of the closest light-bearing window, you are trying to do the same.

Nature has the benefit of not feeling emotion so it does what it does. What if you learned to manage your emotions in away that allowed you to grow?  What would you accomplish right now?  What would you allow?

Nature doesn’t judge. It just is.  How could your life be different if you attempted to just be in it and not judge your current circumstances as good or bad, right or wrong?

Nature aims up.  Bulbs come through the ground.  Acorns become trees.  What is ‘up’ that you are aiming for?

Put your ego aside and take advantage of SPRING.  You have thirteen days to prepare.

A year ago this week, we realized that Wyatt had stopped having seizures.  It was hard to believe. It was miraculous and sudden.  It took a few months to medically confirm that the seizures were done and it took even longer to tell people that we had walked in a miracle.

It’s been a year. The last six months, with the fact accepted as truth, have been measured by things we can do now that we could not do before.  We did not carry a food scale, cream, mayonnaise and special food on our hikes in Vermont this summer. Wyatt had ice cream in August! He had his first Halloween in three years where he could eat the candy!  Thanksgiving and Christmas required no special cooking and every treat could be explored.

We have been celebrating daily with every step as Wyatt became a reader just this school year and is just about caught up with his grade level.  Double digit subtraction is a concept that is applicable today when math was not even approachable last year. Social skills have JUST blossomed and any worries there are evaporating. Swimming and Cub Scouts round out his life and all is well.

We will be having more tests next month, but we do not live in fear that the seizures will return.  We are ready to turn our heads to the future only.  No more comparing or marking time by what we could not do before.  We are looking forward now and we are OH, so grateful.

Maybe affirmations really do work after all.  We had a little mantra we chanted every night:  “I am seizure-free!”. Oh yes, you are, baby.  Yes you are!!!

Shake up your world—Again, not to minimize the Haitian tragedy, but rather in service to it,  here is an invitation to cause better outcomes in your life.  Shake up your world.  Pull your participation and energy from scenarios you have been unhappy with presumably for a long time.  Resolve long-standing issues, get out of commitments that are not working, change a few things that have been bugging you for a long time.  Watch how you will have new energy and you will cause new opportunities to arise.  Watch how you’ll grow into a greater contributor in your world. People have been holding on for dear life for a year and half riding out the recession, it’s time to let go and make your world move.

Namaste´

New Energy—Sometimes there is nowhere to go but up.  Certainly, there is the opportunity for hopelessness and the scope of the loss of human life and property is astounding.  There is no rushing through the mourning that needs to occur.  However, rock bottom, calls on the human spirit to rise like no other circumstance.  With each shaking of our lives, we can think the world is falling apart but it’s really coming to its senses.  Through the pain, we drop more of the non-essentials and get back to the core of our humanity and what is really important.  Have you ever noticed that after a cathartic cry, making up after a big fight or even after a child has a big upset, the aftermath is a renewal of love, a feeling of closeness or a calm that was certainly not there before?  That is a return to your core, where the most loving choices are made.

Resonance—9/11, Katrina, the Tsunami, Haiti, countless earthquakes, fires and even war have been resounding vibrations felt around the world.  So many in quick succession.  Many of the systems we have counted on in America and in our global economy, are undergoing tremendous change, which does not feel comfortable at all, and we are not even sure if it is for the better.  However, what I have observed is that there is also a quickening of evolution within people—a resonant awakening. We can no longer operate mesmerized by the hum of predictable routine.  We have to pay attention, we have to change more quickly, and we have to adapt.  The interconnectedness of all things seems more obvious now than ever and we are being asked to be more conscious of that.

Tomorrow…Part Three

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We started a new year with a tragedy that has brought the world together to help out.  A huge humanitarian effort has mobilized. Without any disrespect to the horror that Haiti faces, there have been several parallels to our lives that have struck me as lessons to draw from the aftermath of the earth moving.

Infrastructure—Haiti did not have much of one and what it had was easily destroyed.  Without buildings built for tremors, systems that work, emergency or succession planning, there was little to be activated in recovery.  Without infrastructure our lives and our business can fall into ruins as well. Granted, natural disasters will have their way with us and perhaps make anything we have in play obsolete, but the possibility of recovery is faster when there is infrastructure.  Where does your personal or business infrastructure need to be sured up?

Opportunity—As some visionaries have already stated, the opportunity for Haiti to be better than it ever was before is a distinct possibility.  Although Haiti was on the radar screen of humanitarian causes, this plunge into complete collapse will make it more likely that help will come. However, it will take some serious leadership, strategy, global assistance, commitment and the end of corruption to make it happen.  A very tall order, but it’s a great vision to hold.  What vision is being called forth for you?  What opportunity presents itself despite any disguise of tragedy or unwanted circumstance? What vision of what is possible would you do well to hold right now?

More to come tomorrow…….