Lovely Souls, we are
in a new chapter. I mean this very
literally… things are happening in cosmic energy that have never happened
before, shifting us to expand. Are you
ready?
Are you feeling the
need to change, reaching and opening yourself to a new energy?
Are you having the
uncomfortable push and surge forcing you out of your comfort zone to do
something that might scare you a little bit?
Great stuff,
huh? Hehe I hope you are choosing to laugh at the
rollercoaster instead of cursing it.
Don’t worry, you
will feel the higher vibration of what change, transformation and a true
metamorphosis “AWAKENING” is here really soon. We’re entering new territory as we shift
collective consciousness – forcing everyone to change in a way that helps all
of us expand our awareness from the inside out.
For those of you,
walking this new pathway – as a Life and Business Wellness Communications
Coach, I am here wanting to help you through this metamorphosis to understand things
from a different perspective in order to tweak old links that are no longer
serving you.
But you know this
already, if you’ve been following these 200 blogs the past few years, which by the
way…THANK YOU for your continued support. I am grateful for it and you.
So the question now is... What have you done to create your own metamorphosis from the first several risings and how do you see the process as you shift to embrace what is new and in front of you?
We have arrived at the juncture of RISK, FEAR, FAILURE AND SUCCESS and defining your journey, through your own floundering of decision-making to label it in order to digest it to transform.
So I ask you... do you call yours Heaven or Hell?
RISK
In junior high school, I had an amazing,
innovative, visionary history teacher. He
wasn't a traditional teacher. He went the unconventional route in teaching…we
did not have stacks of history books we learned from during the semester.
He wasn't a firm believer that you could really
learn life lessons via history from reading a book alone. To him, a book was
there to provide back up support to the events, a testimonial as a supplement.
But the books themselves were not about history. They couldn’t possibly connect the direct
experience to the lesson in the application of relevancy to present day life in
many aspects.
He encouraged us to read the newspaper. It's not
that he was some big journalism enthusiast. But he believed that if today's
headlines were reporting what could be history, history is being made every
single day whether we realize it or not.
He obviously lived ‘in the present.’
I think about how ironic my teacher’s beliefs
were to TV’s Craig Ferguson’s old Late Late Show theme song lyric, “Tomorrow’s just your future yesterday.”
What a brilliant, genius line that is, right? I want for you to observe synchronicity… and yes, LINKRONICITY™ of what
that means as I show you one more time how to CONNECT and apply words of
wisdom. We just have to be present and
pay attention with our consciousness.
Thus, history books in themselves served a
‘purpose’ to where we would ‘never forget’ what shaped us. However, if we keep repeating our mistakes
because humans could not digest or process through the experience to comprehend
history, it’s not as impactful.
Life is like that. Things repeat themselves
unless we break a cycle. Fully
understanding the experience with empathy, compassion and a deep interest to
completely grasp the experience can help do that.
First I need to reference something. My teacher loved Helen Keller. He also made
everyone in class fall in love with her by the end of the semester because he
brought someone who made history to life for us based on this quote:
“Success
is mostly a superstition. It does not
exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run
than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” ~ Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” ~ Helen Keller
*** Legal warning safety disclaimer... DO NOT be stupid and try this. It's not safe. We had permission slips and this was a history experiment with proper supervision***
The class was divided in half. One half would wear a blindfold. The other half would
wear ear plugs. The ones wearing ear plugs would carefully walk the students
wearing blindfolds across the street of a busy intersection in the middle of
peak traffic.
- Would you dare to cross the street?
- Would you be cautious?
- Or figure you have nothing to lose?
- More importantly, how do you perceive risk?
If you ask yourself these questions, how you deal
with risk can help you step into your metamorphosis.
My teacher’s lesson was about educating us how
people who have made history have not only taken risk, but they trusted
something more important than what they saw or heard… they trusted how they
felt.
Helen Keller worked off her other senses and this
how my middle school teacher taught us both history and a life lesson to
process our own metamorphosis for change, transformation and trusting instinct –
which is what many history-making icons had to do.
However, reading history books to only read their
story wouldn’t give us the impact of understanding history unless we could
experience what drove history to this place by being in a position to
experience it ourselves.
FEAR
This brought up the question…Don't animals run
off those same instincts? Sometimes it's an energy, or it's a vibe of intuitive
feeling. Have you ever been around a
blind or deaf animal? I have. A few of
my friends have had huge blind dogs. People who can see, would automatically see
the intimidating looking dog and run the other way, no different than some
people do when they see a spider. Now think about that for a minute. Why are
people afraid of the spider?
Think back to when you were a small child. Curiosity
teaches us to explore and to risk. No one screams or jumps at three years old
when they see a spider. Most kids just pick it up, maybe even try to play with
it or eat it. It is only when adults freak out we acquire this 'learned
behavior' of freaking out… and this in turn teaches us to 'freak out' when we
see a spider… or an intimidating dog or anything else in life that scares us.
The dog or spider don't really fear us – you don’t
hear THEM SCREAMING now do you?
My friend's blind dog shows up and just
automatically trusts blindly if he can sense someone is just there to pet him,
play with him or unconditionally love him.
My history lesson was poignant and powerful.
People who made history functioned on these 'other instincts' – they did not fear anything. Interesting
perspective isn't it? Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison,
Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Jr., … we could go on forever. Being
different and taking risks can be inspirational if we know who we are and take
the risk to be true to what we believe.
Do you take risks or don’t you? Why or why not? Do you tap into your natural instincts? Or do you avoid them? If our instincts are on target, why don't some
people take risks?
“You
gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face… Do the
thing you think you cannot do.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
FAILURE & SUCCESS
Fear of failure. This is most common. People are
afraid to fail. When you think about
this logically, this is utterly ridiculous.
How can you fail if you attempt, try, do your best and put yourself out
there? That's not failure. Not trying is failure.
“Do, or do not. There is no try.”
~YODA, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
~YODA, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
So why fear failure when your only option outside
of trying is succeeding?
That's like saying … "Don't bake cookies if you’ve never done it before, because you
might burn them. But if you succeed without burning them you might actually
enjoy eating them!" What?! Silly
as it sounds, this applies.
Damn, now I am craving cookies.
If your friends or family judge you because you
'fail' at something, they're not being supportive.
The world won't damn you for failing, even if you
may ‘feel’ like it. They can criticize
your method for trying, they can be judgmental and shred you to bits where you may
make you want to crawl in a hole.
But if you try
with everything you have, you won't be damned for failing if you see that
you dared to do what they were too fearful to even begin to attempt. So why
fear it?
Failure of success. When it comes to business, it
took me a while to understand. How can anyone be
afraid to actually achieve their dream? What!? You may actually get what you
want? All you dream of? Is it so bad?
Life is tough and then we all die, so why not try?
What is wrong with being able to feel joy and say 'Yesssss!' Knowing you're
right on your mark, there's no better or more exhilarating feeling than that.
However… I have seen one significant trigger,
where people are afraid of success in terms of their life changing to the point
they fear they will not recognize nor return to their previous story of their
life and may lose their original selves. There is a grieving process in this.
While this is valid for some, it is in assessing
who your true believers are in your core character, you will see who is really
in your camp who will prevent you from becoming an alternate version of
yourself and keep you true to your authentic self, by giving you a swift kick
in the behind to remind you to not to forget your roots.
You may lose yourself. But those who care will
rein you back to where you need to be.
If they fail, sometimes the Universe will do it
in a harder way to give you your ultimate wakeup call in order to remind you
that (wait for it)……. Life is not about failure or success at all.
What? Read
that again.
Life is not about failure or success at all.
The meaning of life is more than that, it is
deeper than that it contains something beyond comprehension built from a place
of love and truth.
At the end of the day, no amount of money or
titles, or successes can buy what really matters and that is love and passion for what
you do and what you believe in, what you stand for – who you are in your
character.
The electric company doesn’t care if you are a
Nobel Prize winner or an Astronaut, or famous, they just want the bill
paid.
Most people are too insecure to stand in
character alone, needing some sort of external pillar to hold them up, but they
will soon find that once the pillar drops, life is meaningless.
Thus, humility chip is carefully placed into the
school of “What have we learned?”
We bring this back around to my history teacher
who asked the same question…
“What have we learned?”
Most people will not recall history the same way
just from what they studied in books, however you will get people to recall
history more effectively in greater numbers by what they collectively
experience from it themselves --- and that includes Fear, Risk, Failure and
Success.
It is HERE people will process it as either
Heaven or Hell.
You can see your entire journey as Hell… or you
can see it from the “What have we learned?” space of Heaven in that
whatever you have learned IS THAT… a Heavenly gift.
We can take this gift of learning from the divine and make our lives more fulfilled.
Suddenly, the reality is this equation - Fear dissipates when you add the laughter of Failure. Success is only truly measured if you have learned to love yourself and someone to share it with. And the journey will matter even more if you were passionate about your true purpose.
Namaste.
