I want to tell you about my recent experience with major
changes in my life. This is all my own interpretation, but
it might help you see similar patterns in your own life.
Numerology tells us that we go through cycles that last
approximately seven years. The more we are aware of these
cycles, the better we can learn from them and the richer
our lives become.
I have just completed a major cycle in my life - the 7
times 7 cycle. To me this means that everything in my life
has over the past six months been turned upside down in a
way that makes my jaw drop, but that is a story for another
day.
What I am aware of is that I am seriously entering a new
life phase in my life - a far more challenging one than I
have ever experienced, and it is so exciting. That is what
my heart and mind says, but there is evidence to the
contrary in my body. Let me explain.
In my experience each new phase conquers more fear and
expands my awareness massively. With every change I become
more aware of the power of the prayer of Jabez.This prayer
is in the Bible in 1 Chronicles 4:10 and reads as follows:
"Oh that thou wouldst bless me and enlarge my border, and
that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst keep
me from harm harm so that it might not hurt me". Each life
change enlarges my border in the sense that more false
illusions are broken down and more blessings come my way.
Read the book The Prayer of Jabez for a very insightful
explanation of the prayer.
I regularly deal with clients that are going through these
big life changes, and in the readings that I do the changes
are often described as shedding a new skin. It conjures up
the picture of us leaving an old, dry skin behind, but this
only happens at the right time when the new skin is in
place. The new skin is soft and beautiful like a new baby
skin, and something to treasure and enjoy. The process of
moving from one skin or phase to the new one of course
leaves us vulnerable and sometimes feeling alone on our
spiritual journeys, because we often forget that we have
been in this space before.
Because I have started to recognise the pattern and my
awareness has grown over the years, it has become easier
for me to recognise the new cycle. Of course when you know
you are at the bottom of a foothill, you forget to look
back at the part of the mountain you have conquered, and
only see the series of foothills ahead of you. It then
becomes so easy to resist and to say this is too much for
me, I cannot do this, I want to have a break and so on.
That is what happened to me. My mind and heart know that
there are exciting times ahead, but my body decided to
resist. Of course our bodies simply express the state of
our souls ' like a barometer, and I had fears that I did
not want to acknowledge to myself.
I am normally in very good health and have never been
allergic to anything in my life. Imagine my surprise when
recently I woke up one morning, covered in dark red spots,
literally from head to toe. My first thought was that I
had picked up some contagious disease and I was at the
doctor's surgery before opening time.
The diagnosis was an allergic reaction that attacked all
the hair follicles on my body and caused inflammation in
every single one of them. It took about a week for the red
spots to turn into ' you guessed it ' baby pink spots, and
then to disappear.
For the next three weeks my skin was as dry as yes - a
snake skin. By the time the tiny scabs came off, I was
still puzzled as to why this had happened.
Then I had a dream about leaving my body and not liking the
experience at all. I found this quite strange for various
reasons. Firstly I had left my body on various occasions
before, but this always happened when I was awake. On each
occasion I can remember leaving and returning, but I cannot
re-member what happened while I was out of my body. After
each experience I could identify a distinct difference in
the way my mediumship progressed, and the effect has always
been a pleasant surprise.
The second reason why I found this dream strange was that
in the dream I did not like being out of my body at all.
Even though I cannot re-member what I experience while I am
away, I know it is always pleasant and something to look
forward to.
Then suddenly I realised what it was about. I have been
resisting the changes, and the allergic reaction was in its
own way a message from my body to me that I was "shedding
my skin" as part of the new cycle that I have been
entering. The message is now quite clear: I can resist
the changes in my life, but they will happen anyway because
they are part of my Path. I need to let go of any fears
that I have, because I know that those fears are only
illusions. I have learnt to trust my inner compass, and
there is no reason under the sun why it would fail me this
time.
And guess what? I have not made any changes in my diet,
and the allergy is mostly gone. And in terms of the
changes in my life, I am white-water rafting and screaming
at the top of my voice, because I enjoy the ride and not
because I am afraid.
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Spiritual interpretations of everyday life and of the book
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