Transformations

When I contemplated the creation of Exploring the Inner Landscape, I had a vision to create a vehicle that would guide and support others to connect and reconnect with their own inner creativity.  I felt that was where I could be clear and speak from my own knowledge and experience.  As is often the case, what supports others also takes us where we need to go for our own personal transformation.

I have a hard time seeing my own transformation.  Mainly I suppose because I am living it.  It is only when I can remove myself with the passing of time and look into the past can I see the truth of what has occurred.   What I have recently discovered is that I am becoming more willing to TRUST.  Trust in the inner messages that I receive, and to trust in the silences, to trust my intuition, and the intuition and inner knowing of my friends. I am also learning to trust how I can be of service to others by listening to what they have to say and then listen to the voice within that guides me in offering support.

I have a friend who in a short period of time after a conversation with me experienced a major transformation.  I will call her Sarah.  Sarah is creative, insightful, and opinionated and was really stuck.  She constantly was talking about making a change in her life, but seemed unable to take any concrete actions.  She knew it was time to leave Los Angeles, and completely change her living situation.   While always talking about making the move, she constantly talked about her past.  How great it was when she lived in a northern California community that was supportive and nurturing to her creativity and to her well-being.  The only problem was that it was almost 30 years ago that she was re-living in her mind.  Sarah was giving all her power to what was in the past and not creating her present and future.

In the time we spent together it was clear to me that Sarah needed to let go of what was.  We talked about acknowledging how special that time was but realizing that to continually live in her past didn’t create an opening to re create her present and future.

We decided that every time the past came up in thought or conversation, Sarah would become aware, and change that energy to the now, the present moment, and from there she would envision herself living in an environment with clean air; and a warm and loving community.  Over the course of several months, Sarah traveled to a variety of places, keeping in her intention of a new environment, and asking the inner question is this where I should live? On one such trip to the southwest, within a few days she found a place to live she could afford, and with in two weeks had packed up her belongings, said goodbye to all her friends and moved.

Sarah transformed her life, recreated her present and future, by finally letting go of her past.  As we continue to talk, she knows that she made the right choices, and was able to fully and completely listen to the inner guides.