A couple of blogs ago
I wrote about context – this time I want to talk about ‘perspective’.
Many of my clients
come stressed and anxious and I am shown that their whole vision is filled with
whatever it is that is triggering them. Other times I am to reveal to
clients how the boulders which they are convinced are falling on them are in
the scheme of things mere pebbles, or that the perceived chasm they feel perched
on the edge of falling into, is just a furrow they are choosing to plough. The
mind/ego of course loves to do this – its main purpose is to justify and
reinforce its own existence and to create a sense of the individual as
separate. Therefore it makes itself the centre of all drama, the focus of all
action, the victim of all events – over and over again!
Simply saying the
equivalent of – “Oh come on now there are children starving in Africa” in order
to provide perspective is of no help. The solution is to create perspective
around and within our own being. To connect to the energy of our soul with all
its understanding and deep seated knowledge and which is busy whispering
to us “this is just a moment in time and together we will have so many of these
– why fixate on this one?” It is also for us to understand that each and every
situation is offering all those in it the opportunity to learn and to grow. So
we examine what truth is revealed here for us, we take our lesson, say thanks
and let it go.
If you are going over
and over an issue, stressing about something you may or may not have control
over, I suggest the following. Feel your feet upon the ground, breathe into the
lower part of the lungs and visualise a line of energy drawn down through your
centre and into the earth - concentrate on breathing and holding a centre line.
Of course your mind won't let up that easily - it will be insisting “yeah but
what about blah blah….. " Refuse to become it’s plaything - drown out its
incessant chatter by repeating, “I bless and release with thanks all that
no longer serves me”. If you are a visual person pour love and light down upon
your own head and on those of any one else involved. Gradually you will
start to notice that the 'thing' is shrinking and fading and your own sense of
power is growing and expanding. Often too the situation actually starts to heal
because it isn't being fed by negativity. Now you have perspective, now
you can see around and beyond - for gloriously there is always
a beyond.