“The heart has reasons that reason knows not of”…Blaise Pascal
The soul has plans the mind cannot fathom…
I do believe in mental science – but I have come to understand that that is not the whole picture… well, sort of –
The conscious mind must feed the subconscious – but the subconscious is where the soul dwells and it contains life times of held beliefs that manifest in our lives daily.
It is nearly impossible to ‘get to’ all these beliefs and actually trying to fix or change them can be counter-productive at times.
When we attempt to fix something, we focus on what’s wrong and
Therefore continue to activate it.
Instead, I am learning to focus on the soul – to ask it what it wants,
To find ways to nurture it – and to live in greater acceptance of all that is, whatever it is at the moment. Sometimes what seems like
‘crisis’ in our lives, is truly the vehicle to open us to our soul’s wisdom. Spiritual Transformation is then possible.
I’m coming to believe that this shift usually happens around midlife – either because we have achieved all we thought we wanted in life and still find a ‘missing’ – or because we have seemingly ‘failed’ and wonder what else might be going on.
There are many spiritual lessons we learn through the midlife transition.
- It is important to be CLEAR about what it is that our life wishes to become – rather than simply setting intentions on what we think we consciously want.
- Obstacles to becoming clear can be eliminated, and then manifestation feels magical.
- Many people in midlife begin to more deeply ask the question, “Who am I” – and when we look to the soul, we discover the truth of who we really are.
- We learn that life is not all about us – that we are called here on this planet, not to fix anything or even to transform what exists – but, we are called to love and serve as we see need arising. This is a subtle but important distinction. Ghandi called us to ‘be the change’, but also said that nothing really needs to be changed. This koan is the key to soulful living.
- Midlife is the time to move from ambition to meaning. Again, this represents moving from creating life as we see fit to creating life as life calls us. It doesn’t mean we give up working or even ambition, for that matter, but it does mean that we stop working hard to make things happen and learn to allow them to unfold. The difference is profound.
