Some courageous thoughts on life, just for you today:
Whenever I hear the words {seismic change} I think of the enormous, buildings falling down disasters. I seem to have forgotten than seismographs can measure the absolute smallest, barely detectable shifts, too. Today I'm not thinking so much about the catastrophic shifts, but rather those little bitty ones. The sort of shift that on the surface seems so small, we actually wonder if anything at all has changed.
In the past few weeks I've had both sorts of shifts in my life. There are walls that have come done and damage too painful to even assess, let alone fix. Life is marching on.
It's the microscopic internal changes that are really rocking my world. I know my life will never be the same again--I know there are small shifts occurring almost non-stop--I do not know what it all means, but I do know that I can never return to the place of not knowing or even denial.
So what do we do in the face of those teeny tiny movements?
1. We document
We journal or tell another person. It's easy to doubt or ignore those little changes. When we document them, it's a way to acknowledge that they really did happen. Who can you trust and tell?
2. We experience the ripples.
Movement of any sort does not happen in a vacuum. Physics 101 tells us that for every action there is a reaction. Where else can you witness the impact of this change?
3. We sit with it and breath.
I feel like I've grown to the point in my life that I don't have to rush to change everything at once. I can just sit and be and breath. Sometimes that is exactly what we need to do in order to really experience change.
These small shifts may be leading to bigger more radical change or they may just be all the change we need. Either way, I hope we can all experience the gifts of internal seismic movement--big and small.
What sort of shifts are you experiencing today?
Whenever I hear the words {seismic change} I think of the enormous, buildings falling down disasters. I seem to have forgotten than seismographs can measure the absolute smallest, barely detectable shifts, too. Today I'm not thinking so much about the catastrophic shifts, but rather those little bitty ones. The sort of shift that on the surface seems so small, we actually wonder if anything at all has changed.
In the past few weeks I've had both sorts of shifts in my life. There are walls that have come done and damage too painful to even assess, let alone fix. Life is marching on.
It's the microscopic internal changes that are really rocking my world. I know my life will never be the same again--I know there are small shifts occurring almost non-stop--I do not know what it all means, but I do know that I can never return to the place of not knowing or even denial.
So what do we do in the face of those teeny tiny movements?
1. We document
We journal or tell another person. It's easy to doubt or ignore those little changes. When we document them, it's a way to acknowledge that they really did happen. Who can you trust and tell?
2. We experience the ripples.
Movement of any sort does not happen in a vacuum. Physics 101 tells us that for every action there is a reaction. Where else can you witness the impact of this change?
3. We sit with it and breath.
I feel like I've grown to the point in my life that I don't have to rush to change everything at once. I can just sit and be and breath. Sometimes that is exactly what we need to do in order to really experience change.
These small shifts may be leading to bigger more radical change or they may just be all the change we need. Either way, I hope we can all experience the gifts of internal seismic movement--big and small.
What sort of shifts are you experiencing today?
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