Cleaning
a house is different in the Spring than it is in the
Winter because the windows can be opened wide, carpets
dusted outside on the line, and fresh air in the house
is not frigid. It is an inviting time to look into
all that is unnecessary that has been accumulated
things, dust, cobwebs, and fears. Anytime that insight
re- places assumptions or encrusted perceptions with
clarity and openness is the Spring. New understandings
sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws
us to previously dark places. As the air warms and
the sun shines earlier and earlier and longer and
longer, changes that once seemed oppressive to consider
begin to appear possible, and even inviting.
Everyone is awakened, soothed, nurtured, and revitalized
by the Spring, but how often does your Spring come?
If you are a prisoner of the calendar or astronomy
it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic
power it comes again and again, sometimes more than
once a month; sometimes more than once a week; and
often more than once a day. It comes when you recognize
a frightened part of your personality for what it
is – an aspect of your personality that you
were born to challenge and heal. It is the freedom
of realizing that your painful experiences of anger,
jealousy, resentment and more are not part of the
unchangeable ground of your being (“Who I am”)
but signals drawing your attention to what you need
to change – and can change – in yourself
in order to move into your full potential.
Creating authentic power is a continual Spring Cleaning.
Painful emotional experiences reveal to you again
and again all that prevents you from creating the
life of harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence
for Life that you long to create so that you can be
rid of those painful experiences at last. What looked
attractive or worth keeping in the Winter appears
unnecessary in the Spring. What anger, jealousy, or
resentment now looks unattractive to you? What out-of-control
behaviors, such as over eating, gambling, shopping,
searching for sex or watching pornography are candidates
for disposal? Disposing of them is not easy, but the
more you do the more you are free to create the life
that is calling to you – a life of more joy
and less pain, more freedom and less captivity, more
love and less fear – and to give the gifts that
you were born to give.
If you are not sure where to begin, print out the
Spiritual Partnership Guidelines on the home page
of www.seatofthesoul.com
and begin experimenting immediately with those that
attract you most.
Don't waste a moment of Spring.
Love,
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