—navigating change and challenge
Life is always changing. If we are not being challenged in some way, there can be no expansion or growth. It is not the change or the challenge that is hard, it is our resistance to it.
“When life squeezes us, what is inside becomes very visible, very quickly."
—Shari Ingleton
Awareness is the first step to change. We can only begin to work through something once we are fully aware of what is playing out.
Old belief systems and stories are so deeply engrained in our subconscious. They are running our life on auto pilot. We are reacting from that place of old and often outdated pattering that is no longer serving us or in alignment with the life we are creating.
Wayne Dyer always said that when we get squeezed in life, what is inside comes out. Just like when we squeeze an orange juice, we get — orange juice. We don’t get apple juice no matter how much we want it to be, because it is orange juice. I think we are so similar to that.
When life squeezes us, all our default belief systems, ways of being, emotions and patterning is shown to us.
Often with the work that we do, we only will see the benefits when it is that we are squeezed in life. When we are challenged and rather than reacting or responding in old ways, from old belief systems, we are given the pause — the opportunity to choose a new way of being. To really lean into and allow the new way of being to emerge. The new version of self to step forward. One that is in alignment with who you are becoming. That is everything!!!
The inner work is something that happens in a moment, when we shift and clear an old emotion in a session, we are creating space for a new pathway to emerge. For new energy to flow. For a new way forward to be integrated.
The first step is always awareness.
Most of my guests are at this stage so if you are reading this, I believe you have great self awareness.
Awareness that something must change and it is not something that can be done with force or effort, rather an internal upgrade, something that requires a subconscious repatterining and a regulated nervous system.
Awareness leads to change. Change leads to choice. Choice leads to action. Action leads to new results finding us in the our physical reality.
Change first happens within us, it then flows into our external reality.
The inner work is the most wonderful investment we make in our future, in creating the life we dream of. We are able to collapse time, bringing our dreams and desires to us more quickly and with much more ease and grace.
Look forward to seeing what you choose to alchemise and upgrade within. Change and challenge are here to expand us, to help us grow, to help us shine a light and become aware of our limits and beliefs so we can actively let go and upgrade them — to get into the flow, the slip stream of life and let it all flow.
With love,
