Your Comfort Zone is not your Safety Zone
Your comfort zone is not your safety zone.
The three overarching laws of Nature, which pervade the Universe are: Creation, Maintenance & Removal of Irrelevance (destruction). These three laws of Nature operate continuously - we can see them in Nature - the falling of leaves (removal of irrelevance) to make way for new growth (creation) and the still standing trunk and branches (maintenance of that which continues to be relevant for the next phase of evolution). We can see them operating in our lives - perhaps we are in a phase of new growth and creation - new projects, jobs, relationships, or more of a maintenance phase - some change, but much remains the same, or perhaps we are experiencing the stripping away of some aspects of our life whose relevance for our highest evolution has now passed - this could be habits, mindsets, jobs, friendships or relationships.
One of these laws of Nature is always primary. Ideally, to experience more frictionless flow in life we want to keep creation primary. This means, we are open to and embracing of the winds of change. Change, though it may feel uncomfortable, is always heading towards greater growth, a deeper experience of life and often bringing us insights, experiences and knowledge which is better than we expect at the time. If we resist change, in the mistaken idea that clinging to the status quo will keep us safe, and that we "like things the way they are", or, "I won't be ok if this changes", or "what will I do/will people think if this happens", what we tend to find is that the change is coming anyway, if we can move with it progressively, it will be much smoother. When we get a feeling that change is required - it could be a small change, of habit, of a train of thought - but we keep doing it anyway, the laws of Nature cannot be avoided and that which is no longer relevant is often stripped from us, in a less than graceful way. For example, we feel that our current lifestyle pattern needs some changes but we feel it's too hard to change so we continue on, then we find that we are being pushed more and more to change until eventually we get sick and the change is enforced. We get a feeling that the person we are in a relationship with is not going to be the best for our highest good over time but we don't want to hurt them/be alone/face the confrontation/prefer to wait til "after xmas" etc and we find things get progressively worse for us in the relationship, the red flags become resounding warning bells and we finally have no option but to end it. Often we say "I should have done that a long time ago" - what opportunities did we miss in the interim while we held on and resisted change? What heartache could have been avoided? What illness might have been averted?
Nature is giving us signals all the time, in the form of our fine level of feeling. If we listen, and often these cues get louder if we are meditating regularly because there is less stress in the system, then we can pick up on these, and have the ability to move progressively with change, meaning we keep Creation dominant. Then we are in the flow with Nature, which is always evolving and pushing us to evolve, and the change happens more gracefully, with less friction, less force.
If we have been experiencing a lot of change, and it's felt a little rocky, then we can take comfort in the fact that Creation must follow Destruction, only evolution can be occurring and wonderful new changes await, and all that is still relevant for the next phase of evolution has been maintained, because it can only be so. Know that there is a big shift occurring in the collective which has been intensifying over the past few months, and many people have been feeling the effects of this - less stability than they are used to, erratic emotions, many old habits and habitual responses being "highlighted for deletion". If this rings true for you, the best thing you can do is surrender, allow things to be the way they are, embrace change where it's required and shine the light of this knowledge upon it - only good things are happening, through it may not always feel like it.
Love and Jai Guru Deva*
Georgia x
*victory of light over darkness
