Living in the World Quake around Us
Sarah: I’m overwhelmed by what is happening in my life now with my boyfriend. I used to be able to control the environment I live in, and find ways to keep myself emotionally stable and my finances in order. But now as the relationship gets more involved there seems no place of security or stability left for me. We are frequently emotionally triggered by each other, finances are shaky, one of his children will be staying with us more regularly, so that I will have less control of my environment. My boyfriend has two more difficult years in front of him, which is adding to the difficulties. But I don’t think I can sustain this much longer. Any advice?
Jane: You can’t sustain your life in the same frame-of-reference you are standing on, on the same ground. It’s the distortion of how you are experiencing reality that you can’t sustain, not the actual reality in front of you. And the fact that all of this is happening at once, I’m sure is not a coincidence. Life bringing all of this is for a purpose, to get you off of that ground altogether.
What’s being demonstrated to you is these things that you have leaned on for your stability don’t ultimately work. And that’s why you are in a crisis. That’s the whole meaning of the shift in consciousness that is happening across the globe. We are shifting from the old paradigm to the new. The old stability is based on what is outside of you -- the financial institutions, the military, the government, the house, the car, the job, the paycheck. And the world is in total flux, because these sources of stability are falling apart. That is because they are not true stability.
There is a certain way each of us has our reality structured, that enables us to make sense of our world, in order to function moment-to-moment. But how we have been organizing our sense of reality is just a model, a humanly contrived concept. And it is no longer serving us. The world and the challenges in front of us are becoming far too complex for this old model to cope with. It’s like having an old computer operating system on a new computer. It can’t cope with the current level of technology we are at. And that’s because the old operating system isn’t set up for this level of evolution. We are evolving past the model we have created and built on through the centuries of generations.
Your old structures that you have worked so hard to keep in place will not sustain you. And what’s happening is they are falling apart. Basically you’re too tired to control everything, and that’s a good thing. You’ve been thinking you controlling all of this has been keeping you alive and surviving. It hasn’t. It’s been keeping you in a state of fear. From that place of trying to control everything, you’re seeing impossibilities in every direction.
These old structures for safety, stability, and well-being are falling apart for many people right now. It’s falling apart for me, too. I’m having to reach for higher and higher levels of connecting to truth and reality, because these things that seem to make up our world and how we organize it are just a model we use in order to function. But it’s not the reality. It’s a very limited construct that limits our possibilities. And it’s not the real world. And so piece by piece we’re having to let go of that to get to something more real. The whole world is moving in that direction. The world is far too complex to be able to manage all of this stuff. And it is putting us on the brink of stopping leaning on these old ways of defining things altogether because there’s no way to deal with our lives in the old paradigm any more.
But changing that reality structure feels like a huge rift. In the transition it is difficult to understand how things work, how or where we find our safety, stability and well-being, and to trust it will sustain us.
We are in the midst of a consciousness shift – person by person. And it’s an amazing place to be. I’m right in the crux of this by working with people who are in the shift on a personal level, facilitating clearing the limiting decisions* that are distorting their experience of reality. And the world is right in the shift. It seems that just about every nation around the world is in the midst of huge shifts. We are at a momentous time in the history of humanity. And we’re right in the crux of it. We’re all in it together. And it is happening.
Basically, we’re in the midst of an earthquake. Actually, it’s a world quake.
* Limiting Decisions: Unconscious decisions made in early childhood that are always some form of deciding that life doesn’t work, and usually that there is something inherently wrong with you, such as “I am a failure, not lovable, not good enough.” “People can’t be trusted.” The world is a dangerous place.”
© 2012 Jane Ilene Cohen
