Jennifer Hoffman – What do we do when we think we have a clear path to transformation and something happens that we have to stop what we’re doing and take care of instead?
Maybe it’s a challenging situation involving a person or life event. Or maybe it’s finding ants in your mailbox or a leaky pipe in your house. Perhaps a partnership you cherish ends suddenly, or you fall and break a leg or arm and are out of commission for weeks.
What do you do next? We always have choices and solutions available but the biggest choice is to decide whether we are going to powerfully explore different potentials and weather that storm or retreat into the safety of our victim thinking and remind ourselves that it is unsafe and dangerous to leave the relative safety and security of our comfort zone.
Let me share my recent example. I had a bad surprise when I went to put a letter in my mailbox for the postman to pick up today, a task that generally takes about 60 seconds. When I opened the mailbox I thought it had dirt in it and on closer inspection I saw that it was full of ants and their eggs. We have had a lot of rain these past 3 days and the ants decided that they needed to move their nest to a dry place.
I had things to do so my first choice was to clean it up later but I wanted to put my letter in the mailbox (and not on top of a lot of ants), so I had to decide whether to take care of if right away, leave it for the mail carrier, or hope it went away because I did not want to touch those ants and their eggs.
So my 60 second trip to the mailbox for the mail turned into an unexpected 20 minute heavy duty cleanup of the mailbox. And it was not a pleasant task. I don’t like bugs and I have strong reactions to ant bites that include huge red welts and a lot of itching to so I had to be careful not to get bitten. I wore my long, heavy-duty gloves that I use when I have to handle harsh chemicals. Truth be told, it was something I really did not want to do but I wasn’t going to leave it for the mailman and it wasn’t going to take care of itself.
You can learn more about it in this video.
Your 3 keys to getting your energy clear, grounded, balanced, and aligned with greater energy potentials for forward movement instead of being stuck in fear and overwhelm:
1. Assess the situation and figure out what is happening at the simplest level (get energetic clarity about what you are facing)
2. Discover the tools you have to address this – you can be afraid or you can be empowered. You have the tools (especially if you have been working with or listening to me for a while) you need to work through any situation powerfully, and establish congruence – energy harmony and flow without sacrificing your power or peace of mind and heart.
3. Set your intention for what you want to happen, for the outcome you want. Intention gets energy moving in the direction of your outcome so set the intention which will create the energy container that will allow energy to start moving in that direction.
Above all, trust yourself and embrace your energetic sovereignty and creative power.
So my 60 second trip to the mailbox for the mail turned into an unexpected 20 minute heavy duty cleanup of the mailbox. And it was not a pleasant task.
I don’t like bugs and I have strong reactions to ant bites that include huge red welts and a lot of itching to so I had to be careful not to get bitten. I wore my long, heavy-duty gloves that I use when I have to handle harsh chemicals. Truth be told, it was something I really did not want to do but I wasn’t going to leave it for the mailman and it wasn’t going to take care of itself.
Here is why it is important for us to be proactive and to take intentional action when we are faced with a challenge – no matter how much we don’t want to deal with it. If we don’t address these situations that arise and take strong, intentional action to resolve them we give them permission to be present in our lives and to continue.
This is the downside of energetic sovereignty, the part we don’t anticipate when we declare that we are in control of our reality. Being energetically sovereign doesn’t mean that nothing is going to happen to us, that we will never have an inconvenience, problem, or a challenge although we tend to believe that this is true, that energetic sovereignty is our ‘avoid all challenges forever’ card that we can use to prevent anything from stopping our ascension journey.
This is why it is so unsettling and disappointing when we face challenges because we think we’re immune to them. Instead, challenges are often an opportunity for us to regroup, rethink our path, consider other options, and exercise our power. A challenge can awaken gifts we did not know we had, give us an opportunity to connect to new energetic potentials, and to keep us from getting complacent on our path.
We often put our lives on cruise control and think that we don’t have to watch the road or keep our hands on the steering wheel. We do, and challenges remind us to remain awake and aware, to keep our intentions strong, to have our boundaries in place, and that occasionally we have to use the brakes to stop. Every road trip includes necessary pit stops as our car does run out of gas occasionally, we need a cup of coffee, or we need to use the facilities. Every ascension path includes challenges for the same reasons.
Is there anything inconvenient in your life right now? Are you feeling frustrated or stuck because you thought the car was in drive and it’s in neutral?
Your 3 keys to getting your energy clear, grounded, balanced, and aligned with greater energy potentials for forward movement instead of being stuck in fear and overwhelm:
Assess the situation and figure out what is happening at the simplest level (get energetic clarity about what you are facing)
Discover the tools you have to address this – you can be afraid or you can be empowered. You have the tools (especially if you have been working with or listening to me for a while) you need to work through any situation powerfully, and establish congruence – energy harmony and flow without sacrificing your power or peace of mind and heart.
Set your intention for what you want to happen, for the outcome you want. Intention gets energy moving in the direction of your outcome so set the intention which will create the energy container that will allow energy to start moving in that direction.
Ready, set, go! Onward and upward shining brightly, with clear intentions, powerful motivation, and hands firmly on the steering wheel and our eyes on the road.
Copyright © 2019 by Jennifer Hoffman. All rights reserved.
SF Source Enlightening Life Jun 2019