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How to Stop Spiraling Down (Step 2)
Last week we addressed
the first step necessary
to stop a downward spiral.
As you remember the first step is uncovering
what you are actually resisting.
Before we get to step 2, let me
give you a personal example.
It was for me one of the toughest years of my life.
In 1991 I had to leave my successful practice in NY
because of visa issues. We didn't have the Green
card at the time, and our visas had expired.
It was heart breaking, leaving all my clientele behind...
When we moved to Paris, I knew nobody there, and
I began to feel anxiety again.
I knew I was resisting something, and I even thought
I knew what I was resisting: coming back to France,
leaving the US...it didn't help.
Until I uncovered the truth of what I was REALLY resisting.
As I was writing to a friend one day, I suddenly teared up.
I wrote "staying in France feels to me like going
to the cemetery" This was it: it felt like a death,
an inner death.
The death of my destiny.
I had to abandon forever the dream of becoming the
healer I knew I was at a body/mind/spirit level.
In France, I needed a Ph.D in Psychology,
and also a diploma as a Physical therapist -- but the
public school had an age limit to apply, and it was
too late for me! The doors were closed!
I was resisting never realizing what I came on this
earth to do.
It literally broke my heart.
I was now clear about what I was resisting.
I also knew that the only way out was for me to
accept what was!
Step 2 is the step of acceptance.
It seems totally impossible.
What, accept this?
Yes, you are right. It seems impossible.
But what you have to
understand is that it is only a mental thing.
At the end, all you need to do is to allow yourself to
accept where you are, fully -- you cannot trick the
universe, here.
It actually doesn't mean that you will have to live
it, it just mean that you have to allow your mind
to go there and feel at peace with it.
Actually, as soon as you accept what you have
been resisting, the energy moves downstream at
full speed, and your answer is right there.
So I began to ask myself everyday, "Am I
ready to let go? Accept what is?"
What I was resisting was to stay in France for the
rest of my life and live a "regular housewife" life,
being unable to express my full potential - ever.
... just waste my life away.
Not a light thing to accept!
See how tough it can be?
Well it took me months, but one day
I was walking back from the bakery. With bread under my
arm, I asked myself the question:
Could I keep going like that for the rest of my life?
No profession, no hope to have one?
And for the first time ever, I answered "Yes".
It will be alright.
I did have a few friends ...
Then, immediately I smiled. I knew I had done it!
I had finally made peace with what is!
And 8 days later Eric got an offer to work in
the US again, this time in Chicago!!! They wanted him NOW!
Yea!!! Yea!!! Yea!!!
I literally was on a cloud of joy for years after that.
I would pinch myself when I was driving to my classes
at the university!
I felt so determined. Nothing would ever stop me again!
I graduated with a 4.00 GPA, the power of contrast...I tell you :))
If you are right now resisting something, make it your intention
to eventually accept it. It may take time, you may need support,
but it is the way you will free yourself!
the other way is to keep resisting and keep spiralling down
'till you reach bottom.
It's OK too, then you will naturally spiral back up.
Warmly,
Colette
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