Reflections

Hello New World! - at least that's what it feels like.  A world full of familiar faces and places, and yet everything feels so very different!  Im wondering as Im writing this how many other people have found this to be their experience as well?  How have you been coping in this new landscape?  Has anything surfaced that has needed your attention? It certainly did for me, resulting in letting some things go that frankly took me by surprise. I did however find it strangely comforting to know that I wasn't alone in facing challenges, and that COVID 19 had affected everyone one way or another.  If you too had a major change amidst all this upheaval, then my wish for you is that it's turned out, or is going to turn out for the better.   Taking a leap of faith either through our own choice or because of something outside our control will create a whole new trajectory, and we simply have to keep as steady as we can whilst we wait for things to settle. To try and fight change will just create more anxiety, and we know this if we are honest with ourselves. If we are panicking then we may miss the new doors that miraculously open  offering us new opportunities. Maybe these possibilities have been quietly waiting for our arrival for some time? I know that's what it felt like for me anyway.   Behind these doors for me was a cascade of new opportunities, that had I not taken the jump into the unknown, may never have surfaced.   Those interested in the Johari Psychological model will find relevent reference here, and those interested in Quantum science will have come across the latest in the relationship between our thinking/emotions and cells. Science has revealed that up to 95% of illness and dis-ease are stress related, so it's certainly worth a bit of research. What informs our reason for making changes only we get to decide, and when change is forced on us? then we still have some control - just not initially if we are triggered into a fight or flight response.  In this state it's pointless trying to figure anything out, we just have to surf the wave until we find enough internal steadiness to be able to make our next move. We have to start with recognising what it is that needs to change, or at least what is it that we don't want. So step one is assessing how we feel. For me I then had to accept the feelings of anxiety that came along with all that realization, rather than pushing them back down and trying to rationalize my way out of them again, I said OK "lets feel this"!.. Ouch!.  No more denial for me, my excuses had run their course.  When we are able to face some of our rawest emotions, (and I recommend not alone) then the symptoms of stress can start to move through us rather than being constantly and consistently stored.  When we keep rejecting what deep down we know we must do, our  stress hormones continue to run amok wreaking havoc on our prescious bodies. For me It's been the ideal time for reflection and prioritising what habits and people stay in my life, and although this has been quite a dramatic shift, I intend to keep up this practice so I can live a life more aligned to my values and principles.  The veil has been lifted and there is no turning back, we don't get to 'unknow' what we now know.  An invisible wall has fallen to reveal a layer of 'truth' that  I needed to claim.  Whilst it scared the hell out of me initially? its also bought out the best of me and my 'letting go' has allowed something so much more joyful 'in'.   Maybe this time of cleansing hasn't just been for our beautiful mother earth, maybe it's been our time individually and collectively as well. 

Consciously Creating Collectively
Carla Langmead
www.carlascoachingforhealth.com