If you do what you've always done you'll get what you've always gotten:
Or in Law of Attraction terms; that which I put my focus and energy on, I will attract.
We hear a lot about change these days, many people even voted for change here in America this last year. It sounds like they may be tired of getting what they have always gotten but are they ready to to change what they have always done? I found that the most consistent thing in life is actually change. If you are not growing and changing you are stagnating and rotting.
Many of us have recently been thrown out of our comfortable consistent way of life and viewing the world into areas of forced change. Some of us by having to deal with devastating natural disasters, hurricanes, floods, volcanic eruptions, tsunami's and earthquakes are only an example of the change that nature is bringing to our attention. It's interesting how we really don't care much about an earthquake if people don't seem to be involved. The massive global economic downturn is effecting everyone is some way or another. Your forced change may be more personal, separation or divorce, caring for an elderly parent or family member, all those children you have focused on for so long may be gone or soon going, whether you are ready or not, retirement, early, forced or just time for. Whether you are looking for change or not it is finding you.
We are so acutely aware of the changes we deem as negative that we forget that most of change can be a positive experience, in fact in the longer term all change can be positive.My mother's death as a victim of terminal cancer was a terrible thing to watch. I learned many things during this time. Helplessness being a big one. She had been ill for some time before being diagnosed. My father took over her care as she became more and more ill, with the oversight and help of my brothers and sisters that are nurses. Eventually, hospice was called in and we had to face much that you would rather not even think about. At the end of her illness, I had an opportunity to help one of my sons move across the country. I consulted with her before agreeing to go. We loved each other and were both fully cognizant of that and had often tried to express our care and concern for each other. We were both very comfortable with the fact we had said our goodbyes. In fact she emphatically stated, “I'm not promising to wait for you.” Everyday, I expected to get the call that she had passed away. Nothing came. I got on the plane for the trans continental flight home and had quit worrying about it for the moment. The plane landed on time about 10:00 pm. I called for a ride home and went to get my luggage. There waiting in the midst of the other 250 passengers to get my bags off the carousel the call came! She was released from her pain as my plane touched ground at home. My eyes teared up and my knees got weak, I feel it as if it was just this morning.
My sisters and I got mother a wheelchair for the rest of the day. She hated to eat anymore and was very tired by the time we were done but she loved traveling and being with us.
Here, I had a choice. One of many that long, long, night. I could be angry, miserable and sad, at myself for leaving, at God for taking her then, or at any time, at the universe because I felt like it!
Part of the the problem with change is how we look at what is happening to us.
I made a conscious choice to be happy, appreciate all the good I saw happening during her illness and death. Her family rallied around her and became closer to each other as they worked together, during her illness. We all made a concerted effort to take care of both her and my father, who suffered a hip replacement and mild stroke six months before her death. Her daughters spent time together getting to know and learning to rely on each other. We discussed the effects her illness was having on our children and how to best help them through this as well. At the end she was no longer debilitated and in pain.
Some
things you cannot fix, for the rest I choose to consciously effect
the change that happens to me in the most profoundly positive ways
possible. I had had a passing interest in 'energy' work before my mother's death but thought it was kind of 'hairy fairy' you know 'too weird.' I have always know I had a very, very sensitive nature. So in my survival paradigm I denied it access to me and built up defenses. More than anything else, I caused myself lots of pain. When mother died I realized there had to be a better way. She was proud of me as I began to look into 'weird energy work.' I found out as most people do that knowing about something improves understanding.
It takes effort, conviction and perseverance to find joy in life, rather than letting pain swallow you but it is worth everything you will give up, to gain that joy. Energy medicine is joyful work for me. BodyTalk is a system that has incorporated western medicine and scientific techniques, folded in Eastern medicine and knowledge, mixed it with quantum physics, energy and cutting edge scientific knowledge and put them in a usable form to help people improve their health by holistic, peaceful, noninvasive means.
Being able to help facilitate peoples progress on that journey is a joy filled humbling process for me.
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