Just Six Inches to the Left

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhul

 

     The past couple of weeks I haven’t been my normal happy self. I have been letting things that don’t normally bother me, really get under my skin. I have been worried about things that I know I don’t have to worry about and really coming at life from the wrong perspective. I am, like anyone who is interested in all of this New Age stuff, blaming part of it on Mercury being in retrograde. The rest I know has just been me needing to get back in alignment.  Today I managed to get some much needed perspective on things and finally, as Mercury went back to normal…so did I.

      Sometimes change comes from shifting our view just a few inches in one direction or another and getting a different look at a situation than you had just a few minutes ago. You can now see doorways and windows where before you could only see walls.  This is where you begin to see that one small thing can affect so many other things. Which of course I already know, but even those of us that are out in the world teaching this stuff sometimes need a gentle reminder.

     Tonight in class my teacher talked about how no healing takes place until you get out of the way. I believe that to be true for everything good in life. No happiness takes place, no peace, no love, no joy, until we get out of our own way and let it take over. As long as we stay in the battle, the fight, the fear, the struggle, there is no room for all of the other amazing things that are just out of view. My daughter called me “intense with happy” tonight, I’ll take that any day over the “crazy with fear” I’ve been feeling lately. The best part is it didn’t take me weeks, or months to make the shift, it was in the moment I decided to shift my view just six inches to the left to get a new perspective.