Experiencing Change

By Victoria Wilson 
and Lisa Bonnice

How like children we can be. If you give a child a choice of a hundred different books to read, they will choose the one they know, the one where they can tell you what it says before you read it. They do this because it feels safe. In a world of the unknown, with so many variables, it’s comforting to know what’s coming next.

No matter our age, we project all of our childhood fears – the ones we used to project onto our parents – onto the Universe and onto the Creator. Every time we confront change, no matter how stable or wise a person you are, it brings out the fragile points of your nature.

In our culture we have developed an addiction to safety – an addiction to a womb state mentality. We want it safe, we want it known, we want all of our needs cared for and we call that “enough.” Many people think the goal of the spiritual journey is to create that kind of womb state mentality. “If I can just get closer to Spirit I won’t have to worry and I won’t be unhappy.”

Part of the reason why we’ve become so afraid is that we’re collectively fearful or angry that life is going to ask of us something that we can’t or don’t want to deliver. We believe that the Universe created only enough happiness for a few people and the rest of us have to scramble to get a piece of it. We’ve forgotten that it’s a loving Universe, which will supply us with whatever we focus on.

We become like ostriches with our heads in the sand. The problem with living this way is that we can’t transform what we don’t know about. You can’t heal what you can’t feel. So when we do this kind of spiritual dialog we use our energy to look at the belief system that we’ve been holding in place that makes change so difficult.

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