Wondering…
The past ten years working as a personal life coach, parenting & family coach, emotional health care professional, couples counsellor, women’s circle leader, shamanic healer and sacred space holder has been my apprenticeship into a deeper wondering about the mystery of life and death and the journey in between.
I have continued to witness is the increasing pace and demands of life, and the so-called advances in technology designed to ‘keep us connected’... Despite this, largely people report feeling alone, disconnect, rushed off their feet, and wandering around without deep meaning and purpose. Somewhat waiting for life to come together and the good part to begin. Or someone to step up and do the work for you.
I also witness through my own lens and over the years through supporting my clients, big system failures in the areas of Mental Health, Education, Health Care, Politics & Leadership, Food & Farming, Finances, Nature & Resources, Religion and so on. The systems of leadership, trust, safety, certainty and security have largely lost faith through them becoming so big and losing their personality, care and focus. All areas to loosen our fixed singular beliefs on and wonder more deeply about. Where is all taking us?
You only have to talk to the average person in the street to ask how one of these systems have failed them personally in some way. Ask yourself this question too.
As the pace of life continues to quicken we have to start to ask ourselves ‘at what cost’? At the cost of connection, community and culture? The things being rapidly sucked away from us in the race to make us all fast and fancy. Is this what we really want?
I invite you to look around... don’t have to change a thing... just observe.
Observe the pace of life. Observe the challenges you see people experiencing. Notice the challenge you have. Notice the things you would change if you could. Become open, curious and aware. Allow yourself to see what you see, and feel what you feel.
We are in a phase asking something from us. And before we ‘can do’ anything about it. We must see it, through our own lens. In your own way. What it means for you.
Each of us Warrior in the World in our own way. You are doing it right now. Maybe you are conscious and living deliberately by choice. Or maybe you are on auto pilot and going through the motions being a well-behaved human and you don’t even realise your life is not your own.
Maybe you are asleep.
Maybe your eyes are wide open.
What is in your heart?
Does it feel numb and disconnected?
Or alive taking the full journey of life?
Take off the cloak of ‘numbing out, its someone elses problem, Im okay, I don’t care, blame game, life will get good one day’ excuses... and be in the present moment.
Breath into your belly.
Feel into your heart.
I invite you to open up and start looking with fresh eyes and an open heart. What do you see? What do you feel? What do you notice when you wonder openly in a new way?
The next step after you have gathered your findings is self-responsibility. How will you lead the change you want to see? How will you be the one you are waiting for? Baby steps and little bites, you can do it.
Yes, begin now.
What if you had to let everything go and begin again?
What would that look like for you?
