In last months newsletter I talked about moving outside of
our familiar zones, ‘our boxes’. I’ve
heard from quite a few of you that you are finding that your “boxes” seem to be
expanding and collapsing on their own!
It isn’t the easiest choice knowing that your life will change, not only
beyond what feels familiar but also beyond what you may believe is
controllable. I’ve thought a lot, since
that last newsletter, on ways to experience this transition more comfortablyAfter all, who says that transitions have to
be uncomfortable experiences?
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My inner voice spoke up and asked me “Do you remember
learning how to walk?” At first I thought it was a pretty ridiculous irrelevant question But the truth was I didn’t remember.Learning to walk is perhaps the most monumental
event in most peoples’ life yet it is one that we don’t remember. Those fortunate enough to have been around
young children get to witness this wonderful event. The moment a child grabs onto something and pulls itself up to
stand, every adult in the room begins to smile and applaud not only for the
child’s accomplishment but the joy on that child’s face is absolutely
contagious. The act of a child getting off its knees to stand begins the
transition between being totally dependent to developing new levels of freedom
in movement.
The child for a while needs help in navigating its’
environment and there are moments that bring cries of dismay and tears of
having not successfully achieved its’ goal of staying upright and in
movement. But every child eventually gets up to answer that call of mobility by stepping forward, pausing, often falling and pulling itself up to step forward again It is not long before that child is not only staying on its’ feet but is running, climbing and jumping.
With time they are able to develop skills that enable them to use other
forms for a greater ease and freedom in movement: bicycle, automobile,
airplane, whatever they desire! But by
the time they develop these skills they have become like us…they have forgotten
the day that they began to walk.
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Perhaps we have forgotten this monumental achievement
because we have experienced so many wonderful things as a result of walking
that it is easy to over look how limited our experience was when we
crawled. Or perhaps the memory of a
young child is not sufficiently developed to remember crawling. Perhaps there is in every child an innate
alarm-system that impels the child to stand up, and without
consciously realizing the significance, begins the journey of stepping into a
new environment of freedom. Perhaps a
child doesn’t experience the transition as a challenge but as a wonderful
adventure. So instead of fear they only
feel excitement. Could it be that a
child “knows” that if it stumbles and falls there will be someone who comes and
picks them up, kisses the hurt, stands them back on their feet and assures them
that everything is fine? Unfortunately,
we will never know why we have forgotten because we don’t remember. I believe that learning to walk is no different than movingbeyond our boxes. There is an innate/intuitive part of us that knows when it is time to get off of our knees
and move beyond the limited space that we have been experiencing We can trust that as soon as we get on our
feet that we can run, jump, climb and achieve our hearts desires If we stumble and fall God (universal goodness) will be there to pick us, love us and assure us that everything is
fine. We can chose to let go of the fear and instead look for the excitement in the adventure. We will learn to navigate our new environment step-by-step, one step at a time.
In time we will have forgotten the box that, even though familiar, kept
us limited. So how do you make it
comfortably through the transition of change?
Just keep on stepping there are better things ahead!
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Many Blessings
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Danielle
