The mantra for the year 2007 is the word: expand.
One of the natural energy dynamics of this particular dimension is the dynamic of "contraction/expansion." If you look at just about anything from just the right angle of perception you can see a natural order in place; the natural process of contraction/expansion. Everything strobes, or vibrates, between sets of polarities. We, as divine human beings, are constantly swinging, like a pendulum, between contraction and expansion. We can even see each in-breath as an expansion and each out-breath as a contraction. This concept of contraction/expansion is ubiquitous.
The plants go through a repetitive contraction/expansion with the seasons. The plants contract is winter and expand in summer. We, as divine human beings, are not much different. We each have our own preferences, but as a whole, humankind contracts in winter and expands in summer. This year will be different, though, because we will instead be experiencing a constant ping-pong effect of going back and forth between contraction and expansion throughout the year.
We will be like bobble-head dolls.
But we don't have to be.
The hardest part of this year's repeated expansions/contractions will be the contraction part. We can feel like we are being squeezed. The contraction waves will push in on us and that pinches things, activating issues and reawakening dormant imbedded emotions. The squeezing can force us out of our comfort zones. Think of 2007 as going through labor. Moments of intense peace evaporate as a contraction comes on. The contraction is intense and painful but it eventually resides and, once again, peace pervails....only to be shattered by another contraction.
So think of yourself as a pregnant woman who is going through labor, about to give birth. How would you react?
There are long arduous births and there are quick and easy births. Understanding the concept of expansion/contraction and going with the flow of that back-and-forth expansion/contraction makes the labor easier. Resistance only makes the labor more laborious.
The resistance we put up against these contractions that we will be experiencing consists of our beliefs and attitudes and fears and guilts. Guilts, especially, will be activated with each of these successive contractions. We can see this as an opportunity to review and release those guilts. It is the same with our fears. With our fears and guilts gone there is significantly less resistance to the contraction enabling us to go with the flow more easily.
But it is also our beliefs and attitudes and perceptions that will be squeezed during these contractions. It is our beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions that largely create our reality so when these things get squeezed and pinched we will be forced to look at them and decide whether or not we want to reconfigure our beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions in order to create a new reality (birth). Holding on to the old beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions creates resistance to the contractions making them more arduous.
Every contraction will be an opportunity to reconfigure our energy. Each contraction can be followed by a period of intense peace and expansion. These peaceful expansive periods between the contractions are when we can implement far-reaching changes in our lives. It is when we can try out new beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions. They may fit a little better than the old ones and they may help us endure the next contraction. On the other side of that next contraction we can try out even newer beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions. If we can open the door to change then during each of the peaceful, expansive periods change will come blowing in through the door like a brisk spring wind. And if the windows are open, too, the wind will flush your house clean.
We must be as willing to expand as we are to contract. The contractions have begun and they will happen. We can make it easier by reconfiguring. The expansions will happen, too, and we can use these expansions to grow and change. If we resist the contractions or the growth and change then it could be a tough year. To make it easier we can think: Release and expand!. When things get tough this year, think: Release and expand!. Release and expand!. Release and expand!. By the end of the year we will have expanded far beyond the perceived limitations we define ourselves by now.
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