Embracing Change

Filed Under: Letters from the Executive Director
Written by Juli Somers

Change.  It appears to be a simple word but when faced with it in our lives, there is often an inner resistance that only wants things to stay the same.  We decide who we are and how life should look and then live in a box not realizing that we are denying ourselves more of what life or love has to offer.  Judgment is a limiting energy that can only allow you to have what you already know or what you think you want.  But what if moving into what you don’t know can give you even more than you can possibly imagine?  We judge life and others according to our perception which have nothing to do with the reality of who they might be or what might be possible.

Life is a fluid dance.  Just when you think you know the steps, a new one gets thrown into the mix – you lose your job or a relationship ends.  Nothing stays the same.  You can wait forever for the ‘perfect’ job or partner until you realize that perfection is a fantasy.  Maybe what the moment is offering is perfection in the truest sense.

Watch the earth closely and you see millions of daily changes that occur.  We think it’s solid and stable until a tsunami hits and devastates a whole country.  The only dance that is real is the dance of living fully in each moment.  How do we give ourselves 100% to the dance?  Each day offers us new and unchartered territory.  Only we can choose the familiar known limits or whether to take a risk beyond our judgments and preconceptions.  Jump.  We can leap courageously off that eternal precipice or we can stay at the edge and wait forever for the perfect situation or person that doesn’t require us to change.  It’s a long wait.  It’s called eternity.

Life is to be lived passionately.  Love is to be expressed whole heartedly.  And each one of us longs to find our own unique and authentic expression of that creative source from which everything comes.  What moves your soul?  What enlivens you to shout YES in the darkest night?  What do you long for in those moments of stillness?  It’s inside of you.  I began this article with the intention of telling you that we are moving into a new space and to please join us in celebrating our change and expansion.  But sometimes you just have to go with that wild hair and jump.  May you jump in the way that leads you beyond your judgments and feel that unseen hand forever guiding you to the next ledge to light upon.  But rest there gently, a new change may be just starting to call your name.

Juli Somers is a gifted psychic, spiritual healer and minister.  She is the Director of The Center For Inner Truth in Santa Fe, New Mexico.