Description of Challenge
The overwhelming dominance of rationality in today's world. Maybe not everything has to make sense?There is a seed in each one of us, and the Universe is calling on that seed. Yet most of those seeds never grow. They are tied by responsibilities, expectations, fear, lack of education, rationality, and so on. There is a saying that you are the average of the 5 people you spend most of your time with. What if your circumstances eat away at your growth day by day, year by year?
Solution
Through my life I face the phenomena that society demands of me to put labels on myself and to be able to formulate what I want to do with my life. I usually don’t have a clue, so I just say something that feels appropriate in the moment. Yet what do I want is a question for the mind. I may also consider what my heart has to say about it.
During a lecture, I heard something that struck me. The teacher said, ‘the universe has a plan with you. Let go of what you want and tune in to what the Universe wants with you. And then you grow into that person’.
Would that not be amazing? Just to grow like a plant, effortless and towards the sun?
So how do you do that? How do you tune in with the Universe’s will? How do you hear the call of your spirit?
‘If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees’.
…
This is what things can teach us:
‘to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
before he can fly.’
– Rainer Maria Rilke
For me the first step is to create a safe place and give myself time. Because circumstance is everything.
I was visiting a little patch of forest the other day. It is one of the last remaining patches of the original Caledonian forest in Scotland. One of the last remaining patches of original forest in Europe. It is tiny, tiny. A few hours to walk around. And it is dying, you look around and see only old trees, but no young ones. At first. If you look closer, you find the young ones, close to the ground. Without leaves, tiny bare branches. They are not so young actually, some of them are more than 20 years old. The over populated deer keep eating them off, year by year. They never grow into a tree.
A safe place is not a place of comfort. It is a place where I am inspired to step out of my comfort and take challenges, experiment with my personality, with my connection to others, expand my boundaries. In a safe place people surround me who hold me in that process without expectations, and support me should I get stuck. In the end we are all human – yet how many people do you allow to see you really?
