Musings for 12/11/13

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Experience pain to the fullest. Do not try to run away from it, do not resist it by thinking of something else or by cursing fate. Open your arms to it, embrace it, ask it to do its worst to you. To go with it requires a moment’s plucking up of courage; it seems to invite disaster, yet oddly enough it is the only salvation.

~Alan Watts~

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When you are a woman I feel it is as if you signed up for experiencing fullness in all forms. Just as a woman gives birth to life itself, at first there is tremendous contraction and learning the lessons of surrender to the physical laws of nature.  Here there is no day without night. There is no predator without a prey for it to hunt. There is no masculine without the feminine. Everything is constantly breathing like a giant lung. You breathe, the planet breathes, and life is constantly expanding and contraction all around us. Right now we are feeling the energy of contraction as the season gets colder and colder. The darkness is calling us to go inward. The temperature is waking us up to the fact that there is change coming. Our senses become heightened and we become more aware of the cycles of life and death. Perhaps that is because in this time of the year the pattern calls us all together to reflect and celebrate.

What do you celebrate and want to share about this past year? What have you accomplished? What have you overcome? Where have you grown? What are you proud of in your life?

Feel into that. Love what you have become. You are an amazing person. Now look ahead to the New Year. What do you want to accomplish. Set your intention now just like a seed being planted in the earth. And know that as the sun warms the land your seed will burst forth and create a thing of beauty and color for your world.

Numerology for 12/11/13

The numerology today adds up to the number 11 or if you add the 1 + 1 you get the number 2.  With this number pattern you have a choice. You can allow the 11 to collapse into the two or you can make a conscious decision to focus your energy towards the evolution of the number 2 into an 11.

If the number 2 is ruling your day you will feel as if you are contracting into a negative mind state. Instead of seeing the possibilities you will feel as if your mind is looping on a thought or belief. When this happens you feel trapped between two waves of energy, tossed back and forth but feeling as if you are getting nowhere. The mind is an endless maze and its most functional use is to remember past experiences and compare the past with the present reality. The problem is that each moment is actually unique. When you judge the present based on the past you create a repeating pattern of your life in which someone or something else is the problem. This pattern can allow you to have a limited view of reality and make you feel as if every day is a version of the movie, “Groundhog Day”. When this happens you can fall further and further into despair and anger.

But there is another way. That way requires you to break out of your habits and past beliefs, as well as, patterns of behavior. You can use the mind in its higher intended use. That is to step out of the past and step into the present, to take life from a place of objectivity and overview. Remember that life is not personal, even when it feels very personal. Life is just life. Bad things happen to great people.

A greater test is to see if you can see each moment as a fresh new day. To approach life with the wide eyed wonder of a child.

It takes courage to step out of the known into the unknown. It takes discipline to train the mind to become a servant to the soul and not the other way around. So when you step into this day, notice what level you are choosing to play the game. Are you allowing your negative mind to remind you of your past faults and then hold them over you like a big stick or are you going to allow yourself a moment to step out of the incessant thinking and learn to see life with a cooler and more objective eye? It is your choice.

The choice is expansion or contraction. Both are two sides of the same coin. Life is always about ups and downs. Especially when you take great leaps forward in your life it is quite common for the mind to try to collapse you down into a more familiar place. But to become great you must be willing to take risks and to rebel against the patterns of the mind that might keep you safe but are limiting you.

So today, take a calculated risk that stretches you a bit. See how that feels. You might just enjoy the exhilarating feeling of newness. Let the fresh air move through you and breathe in life in a way that allows for change and growth.