The decision for growth and change doesn’t come lightly to the soul. The journey may begin or end with a conscious thought: a desire to have something new or release something old, but the journey to the readiness for that new chapter comes from the soul’s work.
We come into this world with a mission: what we want to learn, what we want to overcome, how we want to be better, what we want to experience. All to the service of the soul’s growth, healing, and expansion. So, the soul is in charge of when it is ready for such changes.
The signals to the conscious brain also serve that purpose. The awareness of the desire for something new or different lets the person in on what he’s being opened up to by his own soul. The mind finds itself more and more drawn to that new reality, either by the positive experience of imagining it, or by the negative experience of living in a reality that is not that. Either way, it is motivation that is meant to help release the ties to the old reality, so that the new one may emerge.
The subconscious mind holds on to what it knows as reality. It doesn’t differentiate between good or bad, it only knows familiar. Its mission is to keep you safe, and the familiar is something it knows how to navigate, without consideration of whether or not this reality is desirable. But for the soul, it also serves the purpose of keeping you in a situation that it needs to understand or learn something from, until it is ready to move on. When it decides it has received what it needed from the situation, the conscious mind is alerted that this is no longer needed or wanted, and the desire for change becomes apparent, even glaring.
But that is the beginning of the change, not the change itself. The subconscious mind still needs to be convinced that this is not dangerous for you, and that it’s OK to allow you to venture into it. Usually, this is something that takes time. It works in baby steps. Fortunately for us, most of the steps happen before we’re aware how much we want the new life, or new aspect of it. Our demand for the new situation is a tool; it helps fuel the releasing of the old paradigm, so the new one will not be blocked.
Once there is a conscious decision for the change, there is a purge. How long this takes depends on the depth of the connection to the old life, the commitment to the old belief system, and whatever fears may be connected to allowing the new one to take over. Often, this purge presents as emotional, but you can also see it happening through physical means, like illness, or outbreaks. More often, though, it comes through the emotional state, and can feel like bouts of depression, weepiness for no apparent reason, perhaps frustration. It can be unnerving, because it can be hard to identify why you’re feeling that way. In purging situations, you will usually only feel like that for a day or so. It needs to be just long enough to be able to take out some of the trash, but not so long that you feel like you’re living in it.
The good news is that the day or two you are feeling this low is often followed by a feeling of a sense of peace, even elation. And you won’t be consciously aware of it, but it is a sign that you have gotten rid of something that no longer serves you, or holds you back from the better outcome.
In the next post, we’ll talk about what you can do next to help the process along and to not be overcome by the purging process.
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