| A Note From Karen
Going Green
It’s tax time. Like the changing seasons here, this tax season is a bit chilling for all of us. Each of knows someone, maybe intimately, who has lost a job or whose book of business is under siege… everywhere we hunker down…as if asleep waiting for the big thaw.
Whether you celebrate Easter or Passover, the teachings of rebirth and the trials of regaining our freedom remind me that this month is nature’s call to spring forward and reinvent again. This is true from how we consume to how we relate to each other to how we source our personal economic futures.
Now is not the time to fall into our negative thoughts and obsessive worrying. Please don’t get stuck frozen in time…instead use this time to your advantage. Using the metaphors handed down to us, let’s use these times to reset the clock, rewind the film and restart our engines.
Rebirthing is never simple or easy. In fact, it can be pretty unclear and murky at times. Even downright messy and confronting. Right now we are in one of those darker in-between times.
Quantum physics has shown us that thought is pure energy in motion. Like all matter, our thoughts can create our reality…even our future. Much like the vibration of a butterfly’s flapping wings are capable of causing weather changes around the globe, our internal imaginings and very thoughts impact our present and future reality. Thoughts are energy in motion, sending vibrations out into the ethers…in some ways like emails being thought packets sent into cyberspace. Our thoughts “manifest” or solidify into matter. So if you don’t have a clue where you are headed, you might not like where you are sure to end up.
We all get “wild cards” that throw us off our game, so whether you are 45 and fired, heading towards 55 and working harder than ever or in your 60’s and still at the helm holding things together with spit and gumption, just remember that the most beneficial transformation is always preceded by a triggering event…whether it’s self imposed or out of our control-- or both for some of us.
The surest way to create your What’s Next is to use this time wisely. Please don’t go to sleep at the wheel or bury yourself in status quo, or you’ll find yourself waking up like Rumpelstilskin wondering what happened to the rest of your life.
So I’ve got to ask you: Why waste a perfectly useful recession?
Or as my beloved Marion Woodman always says, “Matter is Mater”. Mater meaning Mother...Mother Earth... grounded in the physical yet intimately connected to the transpersonal. This is where we all find our answers.
We can pile up assessments, read a library full of books, craft a winning resume, but what matters most in midlife and mid- and later career is that we get in sync with our inner nature and changing seasons.
I just walked around our place here in the Connecticut hills: The spring soft muddy ground under my feet feels so good. I hear returning bluebirds as my senses fill with the yellow of newly budding forsythia. I'm comforted by with the sounds of the waterfalls -- taking me out of my head and back into my body... to my Source—allowing me to bring spirit into matter... reconnecting me with my thawing Soul. It is in this place where we find the answers we seek. This refuge of the Self is where we bring our imaginings into reality and glimmering hope can turn into real promise, as President Obama reminds us.
True to the essence of these holidays and the coming of spring, let’s go back to what is essential to us… …and bring forth a new present and a future that matters.
Here’s to bringing in a lush Springtime together!
Karen Sands, MCC
Making Futures GreatSM
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