Change, resistance, metamorphosis - PATIENCE, patience, patience... (6/9/12)

(originally published June 9, 2012)  
  Ok, a bit dramatic maybe, but when we(I), find myself in any kind of intended change, meaning, I actually asked for this, there always, so far, has been a time, whether long or VERY long period of time, that it seems like I am in a holding pattern. And by the way time is really relative. For change takes time and in reality, over night can seem like forever. 
    How good you get at dealing with change, whether it's your own intention that has encouraged this endeavor, or life has just got rid of your nice easy chair for you, is how comfortable, (or maybe willing is a better word), is directly linked with how willing you are to BE in the uncomfortableness of that void we have created through the process of change.
   This thinking is in direct correlation of course with my own process at the moment. 
I had an intention of coming to the coast of Florida to stay for the summer, cook/create healthy food at a small green Inn on the beach. Lovely! I will come, promote my book, work on some fabulous recipes for my Radically Raw Foods, while doing some coaching, hanging on the beach, shifting my diet to "all raw". I actually think i could add another dozen more things in there, as I was rewriting my life from Montana to Florida. I tend to think in package deals. Although these package deals really sound exciting in my head, there always seem to be such a bump when I hit the void. Which I already know is part of the process. Yet it is hard, uncomfortable and if I was in familiar surroundings it would even be harder not to find all kinds of ways to squirm my way out of this feeling, by distracting myself. 
    You might be wondering what is this women going on about? Or maybe you are familiar with what I am referring to. This of course is a reminder to myself, and hopefully others, that this void time is necessary for real change to occur. I could bulldoze my way into doing something different for awhile. But I know it would come with the price of forcing my emotional, spiritual and physical body into something through my ego self. And that always has a price. The patience, the void allows that time and space for change to occur at a cellular level for all three of my body types, physically, emotionally and even spiritually. This is how true change happens. Stay the course. Know your intentions where you want to go, take in data as just information, not necessarily reality, and know in the midst of that Void you are building your reality of tomorrow. But today I am in the void........namaste.