We’ve all chosen unconsciousness from time to time.  We’ve all elected to stick our heads in the sand and squeeze our eyes tightly shut, making every effort not to see what isn’t working in our lives.  That way, we can comfortably keep doing what we’ve always done.  Sometimes, it just seems to be easier than making a change.

The problem with this strategy is, of course, that it doesn’t work.  While our head is in the sand, our unacknowledged issues have ample opportunity to bite us in the you-know-what.  They begin manifesting themselves subtly at first, across such broad areas of our lives that we don’t connect the pieces of the puzzle.  The root cause remains unexamined, so why should we connect the chronic minor health issue, the slow-down in business, and our sudden inability to stay organized as manifestations of the same issue?  We may try to address these minor problems individually, but for every fire we seem to put out, another one pops up.  Eventually, the situation deteriorates.  Life suddenly isn’t working for us anymore.  And we cannot – or choose not to – figure out why.

We are of course creating all of our own problems, all of our own issues.  We are the Creators of our experience, after all!  For example, our relationship may not be fulfilling.  We are not ready to acknowledge this, and so we stay.  Our lack of fulfillment may result in a sudden need to spend money we do not have, or in over-eating.  Our sense of lack may result in financial difficulties.  We stop going to the gym, or practicing any aspect of self-care.  If we are tolerating a relationship that does not offer fulfillment, then there must be a part of us that feels we do not deserve it.  But instead of addressing this scary core issue, we stay and suffer.

You may perhaps want to take a little inventory of what is working in your life – and what isn’t.  Include the big irritations, the aspects of your life that just don’t seem to fit.  But also write down the small mishaps that we just write off as “life happening,” the little snafus, the odd unfortunate occurrences.  Remember, we create all of it for a good reason.  We are trying to make ourselves aware.  Our life circumstances are a perfect mirror in which we can see ourselves clearly – if we choose to see.

What is the scariest, most frightening change that you could imagine making in your life?  Is it leaving your job and starting a new career?  Is it ending your relationship and being on your own?  Is it allowing your children to follow their own path?  Is it having your wildest dreams come true?  What is it that makes you shake your head and say: “I could never, ever do that!”

I’m not saying that we have to make the changes we most fear!  The fear merely serves us as a valuable piece of information.  Just acknowledge that it is there, that’s all.  If you’re really brave, ask yourself what that fear is really about.  What would it mean if you had to leave your job, your relationship, go after your dream? 

This may not seem like a very uplifting exercise.  Who really wants to sit and look at all that discomfort, all that fear!  But remember that if we remain unconscious, we will eventually attract life circumstances that will smack us over the head with a big stick – and it will hurt!  We will have to pull our head out of the sand out of pure self-defense. 

Why not be proactive?  Why not use our life as the mirror that it is intended to be and bring awareness to the parts of ourselves that we have kept in the dark?  If we just dare to pull our head out of the sand, open our eyes and look around, we may find that we have missed not only all of our gnarly imperfections, but on all of our magnificence and Divinity as well.

Blessings,
Andrea

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