It is important to focus and remain committed to finding a new position, at least it is important that your path does not waiver without your conscious knowledge. It is easy to get into a pattern of behaviors that will not take you to the place that you truly want.
It is easy, to be in such a rush the get somewhere, that very little thought has gone into the journey at all. It is easy to get so engrossed in nonsensical events like the warn notice, events that have involved the complete remake of our day to day existence, that we assume or miss looking for an larger meaning or reasons for our current circumstances.
It is easy to get caught up in the “get the resume polished”, “update the wardrobe”, “get computer”, “search, search search”, “network, network, network” and all the myriad other activities. It is easy to rush, like a bull in a china closet, through this period of transition and turmoil working ever harder and not quieting the rush to the point of actually seeing what is going on.
I have been blessed by the many interactions over the last few months from people that have gone through the lay off process. The have offered sage advice, they have offered encouragement which is always needed, and more times than not they have added on to our conversation with words like “it was a pain, but you know, looking back, it was really important to go through. I am a much better person because of it.” They are never talking about accumulation of worldly goods or their position in the rat race of life. They are talking from their own well being. They are talking from a position of sublime power.
There have been times in my life when I have looked back and was amazed at how the seemingly random threads of the events of my life have interwoven into the fine tapestry of a life. In my belief system, I am in the perfect place and position right now. It is important to learn from our past but now dwell in it. What is of more importance is our next step. And how our intentions shape these next steps and drive our future.
I haven’t spent much time one the spiritual aspects of this transition, and I’m not about to start a series on hell fire and damnation. But I do want to think about creating a opening. I do want to try to step to the side of the onrush of activity. To take a little time to create a opening; maybe starting with no more that than the space between the in breath and the out breath. Just notice this space and try not to fill it with any thought thus creating a opening for something larger to emerge. Over time maybe this space can grow.
Last Friday, I had to pleasure of having dinner with people that encouraged me to allow the spirit more room to move in my life. To view this set of struggling circumstances I’m dealing with as a door; a door that I have to create before I can go through it. I can create a door to pretty much the same world I left, and the faster I rush forward without thinking, the more likely this outcome. They suggested that I try to use this time to change the doorway, to create a doorway that steps more into my dreams or deeper desires; creating a doorway that nourishes my soul.
What ever your faith might be, what is it that might bring you into more harmony with this faith? What is it that might make your soul sing? What dreams have you buried in the rush to maintain the status quo of the rat race?
What is it, that will make you look back and say, “it was hard but you know, it was the most important time of my life. I am much better for the experience.”
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