Artisanal Living in a Time of Change- the New Dance of Life

This is the dance: remaining present, moving forwards in trust and intuitive knowing, allowing uncertainty to become a friend rather than an enemy, holding space for new growth and undertsanding to emerge.

For those of you who are sensitive, you may have felt that we have been moving as a collective into a new chapter for humanity. All the signs are there. Great change is underway, and we have moved permanently away from the recognisable and into the flow towards an unknown future. We are being asked to step into a new vison, a new sense of being, and to respond to the challenges we face with a new perception to avoid repeating the same problems time and time again. It can be deeply unsettling to face the unknown. Yet, if we are honest, this is the boundary we are crossing.

There may be a feeling that all the conditioning we went through growing up fails to provide the tools to navigate this new step into the unknown. Certainty is hard to hold on to. Everything screams unpredictability. It has become harder to project ahead of ourselves, filling in the future with ideas that help us to feel safe. At the same time, many of us are finding that we are being asked to trust more deeply in our intuitive faculties, the language of our heart. It is a huge shift to move from a reality dominated by logic and into a reality integrated with a balanced mind/heart connection. It can feel terrifying while we earn trust in this new way of being.

As we step into this new chapter, this new phase, we will find that just as we feel a little bit more comfortable in the learning and the grounding we have managed, then the path ahead of us will lean forwards into its next phase, its next step and we will be encouraged to move and step again into the unknown.

So, one of the most important aspects of what is unfolding and what is growing is this idea that we must develop a certain sense of flexibility and let go of the certainty that we are aiming towards a final destination, (such as transcendence, enlightenment or ascension) because that always feels like we are trying to get somewhere, and we are not quite there. That a goal is ahead of us at some point in the future and we must work to earn that experience. For some these goals are like a carrot on the stick, always something to be attained, just around the corner.

When it comes to our state of being, it’s much more important that we remain grounded in the now and allow the uncertainty of what stands in front of us to be accepted in all the fullness that we can. And that’s a visceral acceptance. It’s not some intellectual reasoning, or some mathematical equation that finally points to an answer. It’s an attitude that brings about a way of being in the world. The “now” is all there is. The illusion of “knowing” the future cannot be maintained. The now is eternal and that can be unsettling to experience.

So, as we move forwards, grounded in this everlasting moment, this infinite moment, we must have that space within us to be flexible enough to always be learning, always be flowing like we are dancing, always with the honesty to admit that we may not know the next step, that it’s natural that we haven’t learned certain things yet. But we will.

Every step of the way, there will be the guidance and the support for humanity to take these teetering steps into its new consciousness. Much has shifted already. Perhaps some of the discord that some of us feel is that we are still not yet matching the vibration of what is or what has become. But it is happening, its always happening. This is the dance: remaining present, moving forwards in trust and intuitive knowing, allowing uncertainty to become a friend rather than an enemy, holding space for new growth and understanding to emerge.

The capacity to remain present and yet dancing will become a real-life skill. And it is a form of dancing at a soul level, dancing lightly into new possibilities, being open to learn, like a child of creation. There is so much to learn, so much to discover. How on earth could we possibly know it all? Staying open, staying flexible, staying here, staying in the now. These are real life skills, artisanal skills for living. But they are also part of our soul’s intelligence. It knows how to do this. It created this pathway. So let it create your pathway. Let your deepest sense of knowing step forwards and point the way. Take each step with lightness, with love, as an act of celebration of the freeing of your consciousness to a much better paradigm to the one it has been conditioned into. With love…..