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An Area of Personal Growth
Knowing the difference between space and indecision is an area that I have been working on for some time. However, recently the importance of striking the balance between trying not to rush into a decision (my personality’s default method) and taking a conscious stand (instead of allowing the circumstances to make my decisions for me) has been repeatedly brought to my attention. From a tarot reading which suggested I balance the water in my makeup with earth to meditations encouraging me to take full responsibility for and explore many of the more pivotal decisions I’ve made in life; it has become all too obvious that I am now in the place where I need to consciously and fully embrace and understand where I am standing in my life at all times.
Space or Inaction
Most of the time action grows organically out of giving your ideas space…but you can allow that process to stagnate by failing to commit to a course and then waiting for the situation to grow out of your inaction. Sometimes it does, but riding the fence can prevent you from gaining an intimate knowledge of your own processes if it comes from a refusal to see what is really there. Knowing how to bring space into a situation and when to take action from that space is reflective of great wisdom. This wisdom is born of an intimate awareness and knowledge of oneself and requires an introspective gaze into your own interior landscape.
Qualitative Questions Regarding Action and Space
Lately, my guides have been teaching me to monitor the space I give to the situations in my life and to ask myself a few questions throughout the process:
When I hold the space is there reluctance to act?
What actions can I commit to?
What actions must I refuse?
Am I waiting for an acceptable solution?
Do I know what an acceptable solution would be?
What do I hope to manifest by acting?
Is there anything I hope to get free of by not acting?
Revelation is the Reason for Questioning
At times this method creates more questions than it resolves but always at the very least it reflects the areas in which you do not have good answers and sets your feet on the paths you need to explore.
Exploring these areas in the quiet stillness and solitude of meditation can reveal some amazing answers, many of which have been blocked from the waking mind simply because of a non-acceptance of what’s really going on under the surface.
The goal is to make all that was previously hidden conscious so that an aware and awake decision can be made in every circumstance.
More Reflection
If you’re jumping to a quick solution; explore it. And if you find yourself waiting; look deeper. If you don’t want to act or can’t, ask why? And if you find yourself rushing headlong into something, bring that desire into the quiet, still and deep places you hold inside…and see if that desire holds up.
What I have learned from all of this is that truth must be seen and heard and made known if you are to grow. The truth about yourself is always something you can run from and ignore…but you simply won’t get anywhere spiritually by doing that. It is to our advantage to see it all; good, bad and indifferent makes up the whole of what we have to work with which simply is…what it is. If we want to change it, we have to be willing to see it, accept it and then make our decisions from there.
As we grow in spiritual power…this process becomes very profound…almost sacred, as the consciousness within us develops and we become aware of the fact that our emerging spiritual beings are getting closer to the surface of life…each and every time.
