New Territory

When you’ve changed. You’ll know you've changed because your responses are different. Instead of being swept away by patterns or habits you’ll see the familiar and get the opportunity to make a different choice and you will.

You'll take that walk, walk away from a relationship that is no longer serving your well-being, make a decision in alignment with your values, finish that project, or start something you've been putting off. All because now - you are ready. Now you've gotten the lesson. You are convinced. 

I’m not saying any of this like it will be easy or like there aren't levels and layers -  but it does get easier. I'm also not saying that now just by making one choice you won't have moments of doubt or that you won't be tempted by familiar thoughts and patterns. I am saying your awareness raises to such a point where you are consistently and consciously choosing differently. A new habit is forming. This is new territory. 

Be encouraged. Each encounter you have is reinforcing your new territory. I remember when I first started actually noticing shifts in real time - it felt like I was encountering the same lesson in every area of my life - in all my connections and encounters. I now know it is true. The patterns of our lives are woven into every aspect of our lives - every place we've touched reflects how we've shown up in those places. And it can be overwhelming and often attempts to trigger us to go back to our old coping mechanisms. Stay encouraged - the overwhelm is temporary. You will get past the overwhelm and learn to ride the wave into your new way of being. 

When you are embarking on new territory, changing your pattern, and entering a new season of your life you will see evidence of things that  no longer serve you coming to the surface everywhere. This process of things coming up to the surface is like a mental and spiritual detox. You are getting clear. You are now choosing consciously. And this is a new level of living. It's time to pay attention to the details. 

THE SHIFT:

During this shift - you run out of places to run but further more you don't want to run. You want to face it whatever "it" is. You may even run out of people to talk to - because you understand and value the art of silence and listening to yourself - or you may just need a new circle of connections more in alignment with this new frequency level. Television shows you used to watch may no longer hold your attention. Simply put - none of your familiar coping mechanisms will satisfy your craving - because now you crave peace above all understanding, above all controlling, above all else. You crave being more true to yourself. 

Now again let's be clear - the big emotions may still show up - but you don't desire to feed them. There may be some processing required - your mind may try to revisit past decisions and even suggest that if only you had seen this sooner. You might even try to understand. The why and the why.

GROWTH:

The why is you - or more importantly the why is growth and discovery, sometimes I even like to call it training. Every thing we've encountered can be used to serve us living life from a place of constant growth and evolution. 

When we get into a season where we are not making choices in alignment with what we say - this is because of our perspective. We get stuck on the lessons. We often spend too much time berating ourselves for choices we've made and condemning ourselves for not doing better - but that is not helpful. 

We are now getting into the habit of using our experiences to grow. We are only looking back to see how to move forward.

Your choices and habits brought you back to a similar point and now you’re being gifted with the opportunity to do something different to create a new pattern to choose consciously, and you will because of your new level of awareness. And just to help ease your mind - no you could not have have made the change before - and every choice was leading you to this moment. So based on your past lessons what will you choose now?