How To Handle The Waves of Change

How To Handle The Waves of Change ©2017 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

Wow, this is an intense time. So many things are coming at us. We have to handle multiple things at once. There's no time to rest. There's certainly no sleep at night!!

Now, some people may find this exhilarating. They may feel on top of their game. Yay, them.

Most folks are finding this challenging and overwhelming. If this is you, even though your circumstances are unique, you're not alone!

What is happening is that Greater Consciousness is coming into form. This is stirring things up.

This will show up in your life in situations or relationships provoking feelings of conflict, resistance, pain, fear, anger, or just wanting to sleep all day!

How to handle these waves of change?

You can fight it. This might be energizing to some. It may keep them from being paralyzed with fear. It might help them break through to the next experience. Or it might get you more enmeshed in it.

You can pretend it's not happening. This is a different tactic. Just keep going to work and home and act as if nothing unusual is going on. Fake it 'til you make it. This strategy is useful to some folks, a way to hunker down and get through it. However this can also backfire, the situation can accelerate until you have to pay attention to it!

You can ride with it.  Life is like kayaking, sometimes we hit white water, grab hold of your paddles! This is a great way not to resist and 'go with the flow' no matter how fast and rough it may seem.

You can dive through the waves. If you're standing in the water at the beach and the wave seems too big, just dive through it! You'd be surprised how quick you get to the other side.

Old patterns are breaking down. Situations that don't serve are either going away or getting worse. It's an opportunity for you to try something new or different, or put into practice what you already know.

However it's on the way to getting better. You could come out of this time period completely transformed! Don't resist the ride.

If you really, really want things to be different, this is your chance to change things! Portals of change are opening and are everywhere. All you have to do stay is stay alert, and step through them!

Manifesting In The Real World

Manifesting In The Real World ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb

The other day I had a chat with someone who does similar work and we both had the same question for each other: how do you integrate your inner and outer realities?

We'd been through different journeys since we'd first met, but had similar derailments, when "real life" situations occurred and took the focus away from higher consciousness work.

Feeling Stuck?

For me, my mother's Alzheimer's and cancer took me off my main career path, but I held my higher focus that I was midwifing her back to Source through the roller coaster ride of the end of her life.

It's hard to be out in the world, in the work place, or in other 'real life' situations (for me it was hospitals and doctors and caregiver groups), and maintain a multidimensional perspective.

How do you deal with coworkers or family members from the perspective of Consciousness? How do you approach issues, challenges, conflicts, as your Expanded Self?

It may require slowing down and not reacting from habitual patterns. Making different choices, responding differently (neutrally) to situations that come up.

The other stumbling block we encounter is our own techniques. You aren't at the same level you were when you first connected with healing guides or learned certain transformational techniques. These relationships, and energy techniques, need upgrading.

Sometimes it's a matter of communicating with your guides and bringing your agreement into present time with them.  Sometimes it requires a change of personnel.  Upgrading your meditation practise and techniques may be disorienting, like the going from a typewriter to a computer.  You may not be used to such instantaneous results.

Or - it may be renewing your acquaintance with your guides and resuming your practice. Your spiritual muscles may have gotten flabby!

I have experienced profound, miraculous, transformation when I take the time to consistently focus on energy work.  The tools in my spiritual tool kit work when I work them - for myself and my creations.

They don't work when I'm scattered or paying attention outside of my own space.

This week, take some time to dust off your toolkit and upgrade your invisible helpers and see what happens!

If you want some new techniques, check out my upcoming webinar!

My Valentine's to U(niverse)

My Valentine's to U(niverse) ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb

Nothing like writing an article about Valentine's day on Friday the 13th...
When I was trying to come up with a catchy title for this article, I thought about doing an anagram on the word love. Evol sounds more like 'evil' than evolve.  It just goes to show that this is a planet of dichotomies.  The physical realm is the opposite of who we really are as Consciousness.  Or is it?

I've written a fair amount on Love, and just did a great Conscious Conversations radio show on the topic. I've experienced falling in love, being in love, loving pets, people, places and things, Love directly with Source.

I think the first time I fully felt the impact of unconditional Love with another human being was when I looked into the eyes of my newborn son. It was a being-to-being opening to something greater in the Universe. Just thinking about that moments shifts me to that infinite connection.

Universal Love

What I notice, when dropping down into that heart connection, is that the world becomes brighter and more clearly in-focus. I truly sense the essential life connection in every surrounding atom and molecule.

As I write about this now, it reminds me of when my mother died. The world became brighter in that same way, as if her life-essence had directly transferred into all the surrounding atoms and molecules.

I know that this world is created from Love, that Consciousness *is* Love, and that is the essential energy behind all of manifestation. I just never realized the link between these experiences, my first direct experience of birth and my first direct experience of death, and Love.

Now, my relationship with my firstborn hasn't been all hearts and flowers. There have been some extremely painful challenges. I had dysfunctional family patterns come up and at times I was a terrible parent. There are things I'll be making amends to him for the rest of our lives. And, there is, inside, a deep, intense, ever-lasting and unconditional Love for this kid (for both my kids), that is the being-to-being connection that transcends the storyline and personalities involved.

Similarly, my relationship with my mother wasn't perfect, although I never resented her not protecting me or not being stronger. The last two years of her life, caretaking her as she had Alzheimer's and cancer, was incredibly difficult.  It aged me physically, took it's toll on my business, and contributed to losing my house. And, the bigger and more important thing, it was an act of Love to midwife her back to Spirit.

With both my kids, I noticed a buildup of Love just prior to their conception.  It was the Being coming into focus in preparation to incarnate into form.

Consciousness *is* Love.  You, as Essence, *are* Consciousness.  YOU are Love.  No matter what is going on in the story of your life, You are Love.  The lifeforce energy that creates and inhabits all matter, is Love.

Imagine bringing your full force of Awareness into your form, imagine your energy coming back from all areas of attention, past, future, all dimensions.Then, from within your space, imagine you radiating Love outwards.

Spend Valentine's Day weekend emanating Love.  Any areas you feel are lacking, imbue them with Love.

Try this for the next 7 days and see how your life unfolds!

Sea Changes

Sea Changes ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb

I've been pondering evolutionary vs. instantaneous change.  Evolutionary change happens over time, you sometimes don't even notice it until you look back and realize you have become completely different. One thing happens after another, you respond or react, and you grow.

Instantaneous change is when your life changes in an instant.  You look into the eyes of your newborn child.  You win the lotto.  There's a tragic accident or natural disaster.

Growth is always happening, even if things appear stuck.  Stuckness grows, it just increases in density. Things may appear frozen, but many things are germinating beneath the surface (or in the unseen).

We like things to be easy and effortless, we want our changes to be pain-free.  Do you wait for the bandage to fall off, or do you rip it off?

Moving forward or staying still, are both actions.  Letting things happen or making things happen are both choices.

Accidents, disasters, sudden changes, are opportunities for growth and depth.  They can bring out the best in you, if you remain conscious.

You may not be able to control the event, but you can set your intention.  You may not know what's unfolding, nor how you'll get through it.  But you have access within you to the Cosmic Internet of all knowledge.

You are flowing in a current of the sea of life.  Sometimes you can pull up the oars and go with it, sometimes you need to paddle not to drift off course.  Sometimes a storm tosses you and takes you somewhere unexpected, to your next leg of your journey.

It's a waste of energy to complain about what's happening.  Resistance creates more of what you're resisting.  Complaining depletes creative resources.

You can't stop the ocean, you don't really want to.  Embrace the adventure.  When you look at the big picture, it's all supporting you to get where you want to grow.

The Obstacle Course of Life

©2014 Joan M. Newcomb

All sorts of astrological weather going on this month.  We've a Grand Cross of opposing patterns, and two eclipses, bringing sudden endings and sudden beginnings.  Like a weather report, these things may or may not have an effect on you directly, but it's helpful to know what energy influences are potentially out there.

You can use the eclipses to your advantage.  Just as some people like to set intentions at the full moon, eclipses hold the 3x the power of an ordinary moon, and have an impact of 6 months to 2 years.  You can ride the energy of manifestation and time your major expansions accordingly.

We are all at choice about the direction we are going in.  Nothing is happening 'to us', we are not victims of circumstances (unless we choose to be).  We are infinite beings, creating our reality through our thoughts and actions.  We encounter situations and people who appear to be at cross purposes with us, but we've created them in our lives.

For instance, last year I created classes in Manifesting Money and Miracles, and a following course in Power and Prosperity.  "Coincidentally" things occurred that may have seemed disastrous at the time, but in reality were miracles.  Situations happened that looked like losses, including financially, but in actually expenses went down, income went up, and things are turning out better than they have in decades.

There's a major power struggle going on within my 'sphere of influence', but the person or persons wielding the most external power are in actuality the most powerless.  The ones who appear to be the most affluent are operating with the most insecure behaviors.

It's interesting to look around the world and see some of the wealthiest people acting the least generous.  On the other hand there are billionaires like Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates who are committed to giving 90% of their wealth away.

We navigate life through our perceptions, turning one way or another, which brings us towards different outcomes.  Consequences can be different, depending on our attitude and approach to them.

A number of people have reported being ill, some for a significant period of time.  I see that we all create illness for growth.  Sometimes it may be the result of spiritual changes, because as Spirit or Essence you become what you set your sights on, and it takes your body/personality time and space to catch up.  You raise Your vibration and your denser form needs to expand.

Getting sick is a reminder to take care of ourselves, to pay attention to our body, that resting is an activity, too.

I recently decided to stop doing some activities that were in actuality busywork or 'spinning my wheels' and my business increased.  I slowed down and surged forward.

All this illustrates that this planet is one of dichotomies.  We're light beings manifesting in Density and Effort.  Opposites are simultaneously happening all the time.

If you resist what is, it feels harder for you.  When you non-resist, it flows right by.

Life may seem like an obstacle course, but it's exactly what you've created to get where you're going.

This week, just go with the flow and see what happens!

The End is Just The Beginning

The End is Just The Beginning ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb

Tomorrow a friend is burying her husband, and my husband is visiting his friend who has a terminally ill wife.  I'm sure that people are dying at the same rate they always have been, it just seems more noticeable nowadays.

I can't emphasize enough that just because their bodies die, it doesn't mean they're gone.  And it's not that they're still 'alive in your heart'.  They still *exist*, just not in physical form.

They're still available to talk to, they still hear, even if you can't hear them.  You can sense them, and if you're watchful, they'll give you clues.

It's important to grieve, as your body (and it's emotions) is the part of you that feels the loss.  Grieving helps open the way for clear communication.

If there's anything you didn't get a chance to say, say it now.  Write it down, if you need to, it will still be communicated.

Don't hold back (unless you're in the grocery store.  Wait until you're in your car, or at home - alone).  Let it all hang out.  They're easier to talk to, just harder to hear.  Say the things you couldn't say when they were alive.  You can resolve whatever you need to, now.

It's an opportunity to open up to a brand new relationship.  One that can be more than was possible before.

You'll find the end is just the beginning, to an expanded awareness of Love.

Giraffes and Ostriches

Giraffes and Ostriches ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb

Most people know the stereotype of ostriches, they hide their heads in the sand, hoping that things won't change (or that they won't have to do anything themselves to change).

However, there are also giraffes.  They hide their heads in the clouds, dreaming big dreams, but not looking down at reality.

Both are oblivious to what is going on around them.

Ostriches, it's a little more obvious that their strategy won't work.  Eventually you have to come up for air, and find out you're as stuck as you've always been.

Giraffes, however, have an appealing story.  They throw around ideas like 'Law of Attraction'.  "I'm visualizing a better future."

Regardless of where your head is, eventually you're still going to have to do whatever it is you've been resisting.

Sometimes it's not so bad.  Sometimes you don't resist it at all. 

Problem is, if you have clouds or sand in your eyes, you can't see other possibilities or solutions. Only when you see what is, can you do something about it.

Sometimes we don't realize that our head is in the clouds or we've buried ourselves in the sand.  How do you come out of it?

Simple - imagine your feet on the ground, connected to the earth.  You can even imagine the souls of your feet opening up and drawing the energy in.  This helps bring you down to earth, and feel comfortable in your body.

If your vision is obscured by clouds, imagine gold sunlight burning through.

Sometimes it's not your delusion, but your family or work environment.  Imagine gold energy coming down through your home or office.  Shine light and the truth will be revealed.

Usually, no matter how bad you imagined it to be, reality is a relief.

Try these techniques for the next seven days and see what happens!