Things get strange as life recalibrate

There's a fresh breeze in the air. Many of us have spent years creating our lives in a certain way just to find that today, the path we're on no longer resonates. Yet we are unclear as to what does. This isn't a complaint. It's an observation.

We seem to be standing on an invisible threshold of some kind. The past is what was, and however we try to drag it along with us into our future, it doesn't want to come along even as the future is in a state of white out right now. We can't see what's there and our old ways of interacting with life just aren't working or don't fit into where we're going.

We live in a push culture—one in which life is all about doing and pushing ourselves to do more. We're so conditioned to push ourselves farther, harder or faster that it feels strange to stop pushing and simply be—pause, listen, watch.

The lack of motion or momentum in a world that revolves around it creates tension. We are so used to pushing forward through the fog, through challenge, through doubt, through stress, through pain, through change, through whatever to achieve what we believe we must that we struggle to stop pushing when we need to. It feels awkward and uncomfortable. Yet today there's a deep inner sense that pushing now not only doesn't work, it's simply not the way forward.

Who can say why. Perhaps the old paradigms we've relied on as a culture for centuries have run their course and are headed for the trash bin. Perhaps the invisible structures and templates we've built our lives on are undergoing an upgrade and we don't know yet what that upgrade involves or how to hold it. Doing what we've always done is no longer the way but we don't yet see what the new way is. All we know is that what we've done before no longer works or applies.

Well-known shamanic practitioner Gerry Starnes pointed out that pushing is the masculine way, not the feminine. As the feminine stream of energy rises to restore a healthy balance in our reality, perhaps we are feeling its hand shifting our way forward. While we can't be certain of anything, this notion fits with the times and the larger context of energy we are experiencing in the world right now.

Many of us are feeling uncertain, questioning what's next and how to move our lives forward. We are so used to pushing that when what we are pushing against fades away, we feel a bit lost...like a boat with no water to sail on.

The short of it is that we seem to be in an awkward, uncomfortable, transitional in between space right now. We want to move forward but we don't know how yet and the road we were on before has taken us to a dead end. We want to align with what's next but we can't seem to pick up the right frequency.

So what can we do?

In times like these we can stop fretting and start opening.

We can embrace the new frequencies that are here and release the ones that no longer serve, trusting that their purpose is complete.

We can stop pushing and relax into the flow of the fresh wave that is forming.

We can surrender our ideas of how things "should" be because there is no should.

We can stop trying to force things because force isn't the answer.

We can fully engage with what is as we wait for what's next.

And we can relax into the flow of what's beginning to surface because our presence there will help us calibrate and align with what's next.

Remember that if we change nothing, nothing changes.