More on going through hell

So about action......here it is. It doesn't have to be big action. You don't have to believe that the action is going to change ANYTHING. It just has to make you at least a little afraid, a little uncomfortable. It's not going to feel good. Okay, it may feel a little better afterward if the outcome is good. But the point is to step out of the usual, the regular, the normal. Switch it up. If you can't own the change for yourself, think of the person or being you admire most, and do what he/she/it would do. The shakier it makes you feel, the more powerful the medicine.

And then do it again. And again. And again. Practice leaning into the sensation of difference.

And then watch what happens. Notice how new people appear in your life. Notice how the people you know have changed. NOTICE that you are one step closer to more fully embodying the perfection that lies within you. You will be different, and so will the world around you.

When you're going through hell.......

......just keep going. We've all heard this. My favorite analogue to is, "Ain't nothin' to it but to do it." These aphorisms are easy to toss out, but what does it mean to really live them? I'm a dyed-in-the-wool ruminator, and I like to think and talk about stuff a lot more than I like to do it. But change doesn't happen unless we act. I was reminded of this yesterday by a dear friend after she suffered through a rather melodramatic diatribe in which I raved about how stuck I was in patterns I wanted to be rid of. The bottom line is that nothing changes until we do. The setting and the cast may change, but we will continue to act out the same dramas over and over until we start working from a new script.

No matter how small or how tentative, action transforms.

I have more to say about this, so be looking for part II in the next couple of days.