I read this on a website some where a few days ago:
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The single most helpful thing that each of you can do is to simply take a moment, and as much as you can create a space of awareness for where you are in that moment. If you are freaking out because you have lost your job, you don’t know how to pay your mortgage, there are bills looming and everyone is upset at you because you feel that everything is your fault, you take a moment and simply assess that that is Where You Are. The more you acknowledge where you are, even if it is painful, even if you resist it, even if it is frightening, the more you can relax into it to find the path through it that is best for you.
We know that this is going to be a difficult and challenging year for many of you. Many of you are going to go through some life-changing events. There is no getting around this; you are choosing it. You are continuing to make choices to create this change, this challenge for you.
But understand that the more you connect with where you are in a given moment, the more that you can relax into the possibilities that exist for you.
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I am understanding more and more, that the world is changing fundamentally, right under our feet. A global shift. The economic depression – not recession – that we are entering is not something that we’ll pull out of in a couple of months.
A lot of people will not survive this.
The world is shifting from a focus on material accumulation and consumption, to a focus on human relationship. This is a shift that has been underway for several years, with many steps back along with steps forward. The economic catastrophe pushes the issue to the fore, drags many more people into the change.
While this is happening on the global level, what does it mean for each of us? Nearly all of us are going to be confronted with change. How are we going to cope? What are we going to do?
What quoted above suggests that we simply acknowledge the Present Moment, that we relax into it - that this one of the most constructive things we can do under this time of enormous change.
And I will continue to affirm, in my life, and in others, change can happen without things having to break or be destroyed.
Am I the only one that hears the roar of the river? The currents are moving faster now than they did, but soon it’s going to be wilder and wilder. We can paddle through the rapids, maybe even be upended out of our boat and thrown into the river. But even after being tossed into the cold shock of the water, the confusion of being pushed this way or that, the background fear of drowning…we can find our boat again. One of us can grab on to it, others can find the paddles. Together, we can regroup on the shore, to get into the boat, and negotiate the river once more. It's going to be a long run until we hit quiet waters again - be prepared!
