Small Steps and Big Leaps

Small Steps and Big Leaps ©2015 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

What's one thing that you want to accomplish in life? What's keeping you from doing it?

So many times what we want is just out of reach. We can see it in our mind's eye, our fingers can almost touch it.

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Sometimes we're in so much chaos and drama, just barely keeping our head above water, that we can't even know what we want, much less see it. We just want the pain to end.

We never get started because the end point seems so far away. It's taking so much of our energy just to be where we are. And where we are sucks, in that it sucks our energy for doing anything else.

We're immobilized by indecision. We're stuck in vagueness. We're entrenched in mundaneness.

Maybe we're seeing how far down we can go, how bad it can get, before we have to take action.
Maybe we're waiting for some catalyst, something to happen to us, to rescue us or make us change.

Is it complacency? Is it laziness? Is it fear? Is it perfectionism?

From a bigger perspective, I see it as a disconnect between our body/personalities and Consciousness.  As Consciousness, we're everywhere at once. We think of something, we're already there. We've already created it. But our bodies aren't there yet.

We're so impatient, we don't even start. We're overwhelmed and paralyzed.

Consciousness is continually evolving in form. Change will happen. But unless you take action, it may be in the opposite direction of what you desire.

You want to lose weight but you keep eating, your body will change (and grow).

All it really takes is one small step. Just starting. Doing something different.  Babies weren't born running. Sometime you have to crawl to your first step.

That first step breaks you out of your routine. That first step shifts you onto a different trajectory.

What is your first step?

Your first step may not be a physical action, it could be making a decision. It could be noticing. Noticing what you eat. Noticing what you spend money on. Noticing how you use (or misuse) your time.

Your next step is also a first step as well, as you're moving forward in uncharted territory. It could be a simple action. You can always course correct. It could be switching from sugarly lattes to plain coffee, saving hundreds of calories each week (effortless weight loss as well as saing dollars). It could be choosing to use the stairs instead of the elevator or escalator (effortless exercise).

It could be choosing to put your lotto money in a piggy bank instead (effortless saving).

Once the basics are taken care of, the fog clears and we're able to have a clearer vision of what we want. Our energy shifts from daydreaming and fantasy to research and planning.

It all starts with a baby step. Your first step takes you towards your quantum leap that transforms your life.

Try this for the next seven days and you'll be seven steps farther along by next week!

Quantum Leaps

"And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anaïs Nin

(c)2010 Joan M. Newcomb

I define Quantum Leaps as stepping beyond your limits into a new, expanded reality.  They're often accompanied by a physical leap of some sort. 

When I decided to go to Findhorn the first time, it was a huge stretch for me.  I had two young children at home and hadn't been anywhere by myself in years.  A family crisis seemingly had passed so I committed my 'emergency fund' to afford an introductory week there.  In the months that unfolded from the time I made the commitment to the time I actually flew there, my income went up dramatically.  So much so, that I was able to afford a second week, and still came home with the original 'emergency fund' intact!

Findhorn transformed me.  It healed the experience with my previous spiritual community and opened me to a whole new way of being in the world.  It also helped me take the next leap, which was to leave my irreparably damaged marriage.

That leap resulted in years of poverty and hardship, but also tremendous spiritual growth.  It's interesting to note that, when things were the most difficult, was also when miracles occurred.  Support came from out of left field, in totally unexpected ways.

There's a scene in one of the Indiana Jones' movies where Indy is running through a passage way inside a mountain and abruptly comes out to a fog-filled abyss.  He hesitates a moment and then steps out into it.  The fog clears to reveal a crystal bridge.  

Quantum leaps are initiated by your Inner Being (Expanded Self/Spirit/Essence).  When you heed them and step forward, support appears.  

You are being called to break through your perceived limitations and step into a bigger experience. The instinct to stay 'safe' but contracted is a distorted one.  Being contracted is not safe, it is a slow death.

You may or may not be called to quantum leap at this time.  You may be urged to take a baby step!  Look at yourself and your life at present.  Are things going well?  Are things moving or flowing?  Do you have enough money flowing in, are you in a loving relationship (or in loving relationship with yourself)?  Are you expressing your creativity?  Then perhaps all you need is 'maintenance' steps to keep the current energy moving.

Or is there one, or more, major areas of you life that seems stuck and not moving?  Whatever the reason, it indicates you're ripe for a Quantum Leap.  Look at what would break you outside the box or propel you forward.  What risk is required for you to regain your True Self?

Maybe it's something you've been wanting to do for a while.  Maybe it's an action you haven't let yourself even consider (until now).  Does it require a baby step, a minor course correction or a Quantum Leap?

This week, let yourself actually plan to make the required change (if not actually do it).  And see what miracles happen when you do!