Well its way over due for my Aug newsletter. Its been a very busy month so forgive me. It feels to me like the energies of the planet are certainly putting their foot on the accelerator. People, myself included, have been having huge issues to works through as the weather continues to throw everything it's got at us. It's bringing up deep issues to be solved that we have spent years trying to avoid, and they take skill and trust to negotiate. But it is really worth while facing them full on and moving through the resistance. We all have resistance. Its a natural knee jerk reaction to pain. Sometimes however, the protective coating that was valuable as a child when we first encountered the hurt, was the only thing that got us through. Now as adults it's keeping us from seeing what, as empowered beings, we can do to heal. After all, whatever we are resisting isn't going to go away. It's the next stage on our journey towards healing and growth and the Universe needs us to take responsibility for our stuff so that not only we, but also the whole, can evolve into the new beings we have the potential to become...indeed the new species we have the potential to become. So it's no wonder that the pressure is on for us all. The Earth herself is on the threshold of change and renewal. She will do it with, or without us. So much better if she has us alongside to ease the transition, but we have to be willing.
Willingness is very important concept in Psychosynthesis. It's not just a state of mind but the actual mechanics of how choice is transferred into action on all levels. If you decide to lift your arm, you have to use your will to bring about that action, whether you are consciously aware of it or not. The more conscious we are of it, the more we can use it to assist ourselves to move through our resistance and out the other side into the new, whatever that looks like for us. Often we attach our will to others. Often they, with Society, encourage that. But if we do that, we are essentially becoming powerless, giving our personal power over to a parental figure to decide and take action for us. In that case we are most likely to end up with their idea of how our life should, look regardless of whether that meets our needs or not.
So many of us are in that position. We are angry and frustrated by the fact that our needs aren't getting met, but we believe someone else should make the decisions, yet again, to get us out of where we allowed them to take us to in the first place. And nothing changes until we reach crisis point. Then after the breakdown of the current circumstances, and often the subsequent blame, we start all over again. Eventually we either learn from the experience, how to take responsibility for our own choices , regardless of what others think or feel about that, or we hand our power over to someone else. When that happens we are surprised again that the same cycle repeats itself. Hopefully, as we age and experience this time and again we develope an aversion to the type of behavior that causes this cycle. And sometime not. It can take many lifetimes, or a few minutes, depending on our degree of commitment to holding on to our resistance, or letting it go. Fear causes resistance but blocks the movement out of fear into knowledge and growth. Its a catch 22. When people say wisely, but vaguely "Let go!" this is what they are talking about.
But the issue now is that on a galactic scale, evolution has sped up. We haven't got eons to do this in, if we are going to be part of those that lead the human race out of resistance and stagnation into a new way. The Earth requires us to put our money where our mouth is and to be quick about it. Hence the acceleration of issues for us to deal with. It is my prayer that you are moving through yours, if not comfortably, then at least consistently. As ,like you, I have just moved through a block of 'stuff', I can affirm once again to you that when the blockage clears, the energy flows freely and the new begins. Then we wonder what on Earth it was that was keeping us back in the old. If we only realised how much better the new always is, we would be falling over ourselves to get there. Blessings Sparrowhawk.
