Have you noticed how we all live in our own little bubbles? Some people have big, accommodating bubbles, while others have tiny, tight-fitting bubbles of awareness.
Many years ago, when I booked my first overseas holiday, I received the tickets from the travel agency. I went back to show them the discrepancies – for example, a flight from London to New York takes seven hours, but the difference between the departure time and arrival time was only four hours.
Now if you live in a country like Russia or the United States or England, you will probably have a good laugh at this, but having lived in South Africa all my life and not having travelled internationally until that time, I was not aware of time zones and clocks changing. On that day I left the travel agency and went to the library for some research.
When I later left the library my own little bubble was bigger – because I understood that time is a fluid commodity that we manipulate as we please. In South Africa 3 am means three o’clock in the morning- no matter where you are in the country or which TV station you tune in to or what day of the year it is. Now that I live in England, 3 am means either 4 am or 5 am South African time, depending on the time of the year. Yes, I am stating the bleeding obvious, but it only becomes the bleeding obvious after you have broken down a boundary in your knowledge and thought processes and allowed this knowledge to become obvious.
And if you did have a laugh about my experience, I will ask you to have a five-minute conversation with me in at least one language that is not your mother tongue. Or convince me that the first time you saw “line fish” on a menu in a restaurant, you knew exactly what it meant and did not need to ask. What have you experienced in your life that expanded your little bubble?
Every time we have a difference with someone, the disagreement happens because they want us to expand our own bubble to include their experiences and ideas, while we resist and refuse to make space. When you do show courage and put yourself in the shoes of the other person, you start to notice that there is more than one side to every argument, and that your side is right for you, but it is not the only side.
Of course it is far more comfortable to ensure that your awareness bubble is soundproof, and to blame other people for not acting the way you would act. But if that is what you normally do, you will also have noticed that your bubble is slowly getting tighter and more uncomfortable. The tighter your bubble is, the more the energy flow through your body is hindered, and the more your body expresses dis-ease. We are here to become aware of these artificial and selfish boundaries, and to break them down one after the other.
With each boundary that we break down, we become more tolerant and we form more quantums of pure light in our bodies. Our general awareness increases and we live longer, healthier lives with less stress. That is the purpose of life.
Love and Light
Elsabe
PS: I am The Intuition Coach. I help people who lack clarity, vision and purpose to remove their blocks, discover their intuition and achieve their goals. What is consuming all your energy? Visit www.TheIntuitionCoach.com for a FREE New Start Quiz.
What happened to your New Year’s resolutions for last year? Can you remember how long they lasted? And can you remember how you felt when you realised that you had failed in keeping them? You failed yourself.
Why did you make those resolutions in the first place? Of course, you made them because there was a particular part of your life that caused you much stress. Your solution was to make just one change. You fooled yourself into thinking that one change would make everything all right.
And when the change did not last, the situation was actually much worse, because you now felt even more like a failure.
For many people the only reflection they do in the New Year relates to the amount they drank (again) and how they never learn.
Other people do not even tell anyone what their New Year’s resolutions are, because they know from experience that the resolutions will not last into the New Year.
I went through the same vicious cycle for a significant part of my life. I believed that I was powerless to influence the outcome of anything, and therefore I had to just make the best of it.
The more I played the victim, the more I became a victim. I had to learn a few very hard life lessons before I realised that there is a plan behind every one of my experiences.
It was so interesting to note how groups of bad experiences dwindled the moment I “got the message”.
The more I delved into this, the more I discovered a different reality that made complete sense to me.
My own research has uncovered a massive body of knowledge that I started to apply in my own life. I came to see more patterns, more processes, more relationships between people and nature. I became aware of a different reality.
I learnt that some things happen to us because they are inevitable, while other things happen to us because they are part of a much bigger plan. I learnt how to distinguish between the things I had to change and the things I had to accept.
The result was that I no longer make any New Year’s resolutions. I no longer need them. Instead, I become aware of my life plan, and I allow thoughts and ideas to bubble to the surface. I then pick and choose what I want, and see how the thoughts become actions.
A significant outcome for me is significantly reduced stress, and significantly increased peace of mind and contentment.
If you want some ideas on how to reduce your own stress significantly and create the best New Year ever, please contact me for some great ideas.
Please leave a comment if you feel inspired.
Love and Light
Elsabe
PS: I am a professional transition coach. I help individuals and businesses to achieve their personal and commercial objectives.
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