“The basis of all healing is a change in belief.” — Thomas Troward
We march along on this circuitous path we call life, and react to outside stimulus in an almost robotic rhythm. This continues for decades, until we reach a chasm involving an abrupt reversal in consciousness. In that moment we may not recognize the jolt as consciousness, however, we find ourselves in something we call “a life changing experience,” that causes a complete reversal in thinking. We must call then upon faculties, we never did before with precipitated urgency.
Whatever your orientation or environment, there exists within each of us a latent cognition that ignites the flame of our own truth. When you begin to respond instead of react to an implicit set of circumstances that is life changing, awareness becomes acute, tractable and unquestionably focused. We are led by a clarity we may have never experienced before this moment, and yet as Gandi so well states, “Action expresses priorities.”
Without hesitation . . . is this such a time? Have you experienced a life changing event? Using your perception and perspective . . . what has changed or is changing in your life? Have you enveloped yourself in a comfortable cocoon of self interest, interminable activities, self-serving projects . . . oblivious to what is really happening around you? William Shakespeare had an interesting take on what this life presents for each of us when he said, “Being born is like being kidnapped, and then sold into slavery.” Are you a slave to your own agenda?
We can continue to live shrouded in a disconnected reality, or choose another view. The time will pass irregardless of what is chosen. Is your perception, your ultimate reality? It need not be. All of us can change our resistant belief in what is not working, the trick is to realize it and begin to “heal ourselves.” There is no magic bullet, each of us is responsible to “do our own homework.” We begin by clarifying the chaos . . . in recognition that it exists in our lives. The desire must be there beyond the comfort of the cocoon we have constructed so beautifully for ourselves. The unknown has no guarantees . . . don’t expect them. Reflect instead on the words of T.S. Elliot, “Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” Begin by standing in the light of your own truth, where all healing begins through a change in belief by doing your own homework now . . . time is of the essence as there may not exist a second opportunity. JLR