The only thing constant in life is change. Night turns to day. Day turns to night. Spring turns to summer. Autumn turns to winter. Everything is ever moving, ever changing. Try as we might, we can't capture the moment. But we can live in the moment by being here now and focusing on the task at hand.
Most of us grow up with the belief that in order to succeed we must study hard, work hard and only then will we get the rewards and financial return for all that effort. Where did we learn that it must be so difficult? Was life really meant to be this constant struggle from the cradle to the grave? I believe not, but the struggle to survive is programmed into the collective consciousness, alongside the belief that there will never be enough to go round. Therefore we all spend our lives chasing the things that there will never be enough of, and defeating any opposition along the way. We play out this experience every day as countries and as individuals. We invade other countries and mash the opposition because we are full of fear about our own survival. As individuals we play the dramas out in our organisations and experience unhealthy competitiveness within the workplace. This competitiveness stifles creativity within the organisation that might otherwise be used to advance the organisation as a whole.
I believe we are at a stage of development where it is time to change this age old programme. This predominantly male energy needs to come into balance with a more feminine energy in order to ensure a peaceful existence for us all. How? By finding levels of acceptance within ourselves that we have never found before. By celebrating peoples differences and understanding that our way is not the only way and that their way is just another way. By letting go of fear and anger and opening to more unconditional love. When we hold anger in our energy field, we send out waves of energy that create turbulence in the atmosphere. This anger gathers momentum as it hits all the other anger that's held in the planet and ensures that the cycle continues. When we continue to hold anger and blame, it prevents us from taking responsibility for our part in the drama. When we all have the same beliefs, the same energy, we create waves that go into the collective consciousness. Every thought we think has an effect on the collective consciousness. Change doesn't happen overnight. It happens over time. All we need is for those of us who are reading this article to change. One small step is all it takes. If enough of us do it, these new thought forms will be sent into the collective consciousness and hey presto we're all starting to see life differently and behave in a more loving way as individuals.
Most of us don't like change. We fear it and resist it. We are content with the familiar and wear it like an old coat that we have kept for years. We are so programmed to resist. Ask us to do something new and automatically we think of ten good reasons why we can't do it as opposed to ten good reasons why we can. The trouble is, like it or not, things are changing at breakneck speed right now. We are living in a world in chaos. Our resistance to change is being severely challenged as all our previously safe structures are crumbling. Organisations worldwide are restructuring and people are losing their jobs as never before. We must prepare for this change because there may be more to come!
Remember that all life goes in a cycle of constant death and rebirth. What seems like death right now is really an opportunity for rebirth. Sometimes we are given opportunities for growth that may not have happened had things remained the same. The universe has ways of making us notice what we previously refused to look at. Taking time to "smell the flowers" is what we might need right now. Even if we are gainfully employed, we can still take time for ourselves. How many of us use our creativity to the full? Can we sing? Can we paint? Can we write poetry? Can we develop some gift, some talent that has lain dormant for years? I believe we are all born with a special gift, a special talent that is unique to us. Let each one of us find it and let our hearts sing!
Our outer world is merely a reflection of our inner world. We cannot love or hate something about anybody else without loving or hating it in ourselves. Anything negative that comes our way is always a reflection of our own thoughts, attitudes, beliefs. We must always question how we have created the circumstances of our lives, because only when we question, do we open our heads to seeing it another way. Then we are on the path to true self- awareness and self- empowerment, changing our words, our thoughts our actions. This empowerment comes from within, not from an outer source at the expense of another. What freedom!
Respect for self, respect for others, responsibility for all our actions will bring us to levels of achievement, previously thought impossible. Letting go of all the old negative thoughts that no longer serve us opens the door to inner contentment. Think it isn't easy? It is. It's as easy as we want it to be. We can have it all. As we think, so shall it be! So let us begin together. It's a new day.
Anna Costanzo
Consultant, Dublin |  |
