Awakening To Your True Nature

If you were anywhere near Southern California on Easter Sunday you felt the earthquake that originated in the Baja peninsula in Mexico. This was a huge 7.2 roller that could be felt making its way up the coast through San Diego, Los Angeles and my central nervous system for over thirty seconds. Thirty seconds is a long time when you are waiting to see just how much your life may change in the aftermath.  That thirty seconds became a single moment of eternal time.

All of us experience change, it being the one constant in life. We are greeted by change every day, no matter how small or how large. As I sat waiting for my equilibrium to catch back up with the rest of me on Sunday afternoon it occurred to me that life has a built in mechanism for making sure each of us has clear reminders not to become too unconscious or complacent with this great gift of a lifetime. Every moment we are given opportunity to create and experience something entirely new and different in our lives, given our willingness to stay present and aware.

As human beings we have a tendency to forget just how gifted our lives truly are unless we remember to take notice. Every circumstance, every relationship, and every moment holds an opportunity to receive change that takes us out of our daily grinds (not the coffee, but the day to day experiences we take for granted), offering us fresh perspective and insight into why we are here and how we can live more deliberately, more consciously in these moments. For me this is what being alive is all about, seeing every experience great and small as an opportunity to become more aware of my relationship to everything else. When something like an earthquake enters your life this is not a small reminder, but a serious way life knocks on your door, literally knocking you out of the rut you may be in, asking you to look over the landscape of your reality to see how you like the view.

Have you seen the view lately? I suppose this is the place to start. I sat in a chair outside in the afternoon sun, post quake, wondering what I had been doing just before the quake struck, and I had to ask myself if I was content with that answer. All of us have earthquakes in our lives, things that knock us off our feet and out of our routines, those unconscious habits and ways we forget exactly what we’ve been doing here and what an opportunity life really holds for us. No matter how normal, how unusual, or how inexplicable your life seems to be right now during this immense transition we are all in, we have to remember what a blessing and an opportunity this moment holds in our lives. Earth is changing, we are changing, and a deep rumbling in our hearts is calling for our attention every moment and it won’t be denied. I’ve always said “this is not a dress rehearsal”. This is it. It’s now or never. We have only this moment to express our deepest selves on the canvas of this life. Better grab the brush and start painting. There is no such thing as a bad creation as long you put your heart and soul into the process. We are here to be co-creators with a universal intelligence that is waiting for us to step into the game and participate with personal power that we may not even suspect we possess until an earthquake steps in to remind us.

Had a recent earthquake in your life?  Share it with us.

See you out there.

William

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