Stepping Away from Openings

There is so much going on. I need to balance. Maybe I have to step away from Openings?

Good Reasons To

It is important to maintain ourselves through all that is going on in our world now. That means having a good relationship with time, managing our emotions, calming our minds and staying healthy. We also are dealing with an underlying energy of chaos, change and disruption in the world. Occurrences in our world affect us. They can spike our emotions and take our energy. It is a lot to juggle.

Openings present opportunities to change, which we may or may not welcome at the time they appear. Addressing Openings takes time. We first must recognize them and then decide whether to enter them. They give us a lot to assess and think about.  We may feel this is the last thing we need, as we try to balance ourselves.

Openings do not stop coming and we should be glad for that. Life’s journey continues. This stretch of the journey, however, is rocky.  We are having to be at our best, hone our energy and skills and maintain ourselves. At the same time, Openings move us, provide insights and, mostly, make our lives better. What if we stepped away completely or Openings stopped showing up? How would life be?

Should We Step Away?

This is something worth assessing in order to keep ourselves conscious and in the present moment. If our lives are overloaded and stressed, we must let go of something. Indigenous wisdom often addresses the power of release in order for new things to come into our lives. What is possible to let go of in our lives right now? What is no longer serving us?

Openings serve us. If we let go of them, a major force in our growth is gone. Openings won’t stop coming. We will be expending a lot of energy trying to ignore them, saying no or pushing them away. It ends up confusing us, draining our energy and taking more from us than if we were addressing them. Stepping away from Openings leaves us in the world as it is now. Don’t we want something better?

Once I was advised that, in the past, we could step out of the river of life that is flowing very quickly. It may have been too much and we needed a rest. However, if we step out of the river now, we may not recognize it when we return. Key is to remain in the river, find our center and flow with it. In the right spot, flowing with it could become effortless as it carries us.