As I sit here on July 5, 2009....I feel myself to be in a bit of recovery or better yet growth. This blog has nothing to do with the recession. It never could for me as I have decided long ago that I am not participating in that. If you were looking to read about the economic recovery...you are reading the wrong blog.
This past spring is one unlike any I have ever experienced. I am not alone. June 2009 was marked by the death of so many people and so many things. People I never knew and people I did have passed on. There is no longer that " death comes in three(s)". It has been occurring in multiples of three.
I find myself now submerged in the role of CEO and Executive Director ...pulling a necessary organization with regional expanse onto stable ground. This is a higher ground that maybe only I can see and so I was chosen and accepted. I find that I am also living my values everyday in this role and in doing so there are relationships that I have to serve as conduit to changing and a lot of life support being turned off so that I can midwife new opportunities for the organization. So death comes in so many forms for me this past spring that I had to come and write about it.
As I look inside myself ..the death that has occured is not my own and I will not own it. I will however acknowledge it, have compassion for the different reactions, lose my breath a bit and take it on again graciously and let it flow more powerfully as it aides my body and mind to act in spirit.
Nothing is being taken for granted. Evolution comes from death.
So of course we have noticed that several North American entertainers died in May and June '09. Pop artist Michael Jackson being one of the most world famous of them all. Being called "tragic" in the end of their days and as they leave the form that we most relate to has become acceptable.
- Immortalizing the celebrities that entertain us has become acceptable.
- Functioning from a point of lack and the poverty mentality has become commonplace in businesses.
These are my discoveries from the days and weeks that have come to past. They are death energies in of themselves.
I am determined to allow these discoveries to serve me positively. They will stand as enlightenment for the days, weeks and months ahead. As I hear of each death, I realize and just remind myself that death is as much a part of life as is living.
The infant dies to become a toddler, toddler dies to become a young child, young child dies to becomes a pre-teen who dies to become a teenager who becomes a young adult, the adult dies and becomes an elderly being and so the cycle goes.
I do not believe that most of us see that we are also celebrating death when we celebrate birthdays. Death is an ongoing rite of passage that lends way to a birth of new thingsand new experiences. When we separate spirit from death is when it is most tragic.
We die into the ascension of form and what is left behind is the impact of our spirit.
I ask that the will and courage to see this each day and especially now that it be the gift and practice of all who dwell beneath the sun. In this time, I also exercise my influence. I have a staff of some 30+ people reporting to me in a new role that I took on at the end of May; just when all the deaths started to occur.
I am teaching my staff about death now and these real world experiences to which they most relate are supporting me in the education process.
I discourage the use of the words "can't", the phrase, " I don't know" and the complacency of " We never used to.." or"We were not allowed." Terminology of that sort is dead to me and so I am encouraging them to redirect their spirit and work ethic towards life energies. I am trying to allow them to understand that what used to be is dead and it is not tragic that this is the case. Death can be an opportunity.
I know where I am in control and I use it. This is all to say that what we have been experiencing; the deaths unlike ever before are a wake up call and a welcome all for evolution.
I realized with the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett (both on June 25, 2009), that people react to death as they do because of the memory of the time that they were in when they discovered these people or rather their talents. Most of us with a reaction do not and never did know the spirits that ascended the bodies.
We remember how their contributions made us feel and what goodness there was in our lives when we experienced the emancipation of their gifts ( music, acting, etc.). We remember how stimulated we were.
We should use those memories as motivation to move forth, push on, reach higher ground and reanimate our lives.
As we have now heard of their deaths, I believe that they now allows us to confront our own mortality, our own limitations, and the things that we have yet to do.
No time like the present to just do them.
We are being called to die ourselves. Allowing the death of others to define ourselves (by their greatness and not our own) is a tragedy. Let the lives that exist now only in spirit and no longer in body be what they were. They were a part of our motivation and we have no excuse to not live as mechanics of motivation ourselves.
You may feel like you were waiting for something . Well you and I ...we all have it.
As you stand along the velvet rope of this life, please be aware the access to evolution has been granted.
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