The First Milestone ~ The Pressure is Off

 

We will reach the first milestone toward the end of January or the beginning of February.  It is going to suddenly feel as if there is all this additional space or all of this extra time. It might feel like emptiness or it might feel like the pressure has been taken off. We have been under the gun for the last two or three years to get to the point that we have reached now, and as that pressure kind of eases off of us, the lack of pressure will feel like a bit of a relief at first. After the initial relief, it may begin to feel like we have lost our momentum, lost our way, or lost our drive.

 

Give yourself permission to relax

Being aware that this first milestone is coming allows you to consciously choose how you will navigate through it. There are several approaches that you can take. The first is to simply to acknowledge what is happening and not directly address it in any way. You can choose to relax and give yourself permission to enjoy not being under pressure for the time being.

 

Set Goals

Alternatively, you can set some goals between now and then. Give some thought to where you are going from here, now that you have reached this juncture that you have, each of you in your own personal lives. How do you want things to be? Many of the goals that you have set up until this point you have begun to reach or you are no longer interested in achieving, but you have so busy that you have not taken the time to set new goals.

 

Don’t react to external pressure

Choosing not to respond to or react to external pressure from other people’s interpretations of what is happening and situations beyond your control is going to be important to recognizing this first milestone. The external pressure is not necessarily going to ease up, it is just not going to have as much of an effect on you if you choose not to let it. When your awareness of external pressure is unconscious it is like white noise in background and it feels like a continuous anxiety or stress. If you are conscious about whom and what is affecting you, it will not feel like pressure.

 

We are moving beyond co-created reality and so there are an infinite number of independently, concurrent realties happening simultaneously. As we move further into our own version of the future we lose interest in and no longer notice so many of the things that have seemed so important to us now because they are not part of the new reality that we have set in motion.

 

Expansion is different than creation

It is important to recognize that we have already created the first stages of this new reality that we are moving into in 2009. Expansion is a much different dynamic than creation. Going back to the analogy of building an addition to your house, the actual building of the addition takes a specific set of skills which is very different than actually moving in and getting settled.

 

You are still going to have choices and decisions to make and want to take action, but there is not going to be the pressure and the weight to the each decision as there has been for the past few years. This allows us to segue into the next milestone which is going to feel like there are an infinite number of small details coming at you without any let-up, or without any breaks.

 

Again, we can use the example of adding an addition onto your house and then moving into it. Once you get all of your big furniture moved, then you have to decide where to hang the pictures and how to deal with the windows and all kinds of small things that don’t really matter overall. You can still use the space; it just makes it more comfortable and more you. It personalizes the space.

 

 

The Second Milestone ~ Make Yourself at Home

 

The second milestone is getting familiar with and making ourselves at home in this new reality that we have created. The challenge is that it is going to feel as if like are a continual multitude of choices that we have to make. Some of these choices will be in relation to other people, what we do for work, family obligations and other circumstances of our lives that need attention.

 

Deal with things as they come up

The key is to deal with things as they come up. Every time something is presented to you, make a choice and take an action. It doesn’t have to be a flip decision, but don’t delay too long or things will very quickly pile up on you. If you haven’t discovered this already, the best way to deal with mail is that when it comes in to definitively take care of it right away, otherwise it will just end up in a drawer somewhere or sitting on a counter and the next thing you know you have this huge stack of mail that you have to sort through that is overwhelming.

 

That is going to be the same tact that you want to take in response to the multitude of choices that will be presented to you during the second milestone in 2009. The thing to remember is that each of these choices is going to help you get more comfortable in your own skin and get more familiar with this new reality that you have created.

 

 

The Third Milestone ~ We Are Multidimensional

 

The third milestone is going to remind us that we are fallible. It is going to be very much about where we believe we have dropped the ball and for most of us it is going to be in relationship to someone else; for example, maybe our partner or our children or something that we were supposed to do at work. It is going to feel like there are one or two, maybe three areas where we have dropped the ball. It is really important at this particular milestone to recognize that it is not so much a matter that we dropped the ball as it is that we made a choice of one thing being more important than something else.

 

Now, of course we do this all of the time. Every time we make a choice we have to prioritize as to which is more important and a lot of times we aren’t really aware of the fallout or consequences of our choices. For example, when we make a choice now, we experience the consequences of our choice and we become engrossed in the version of reality that we have set in motion. For the most part, we are not aware of, or interested in, the path not taken and what doesn’t happen as a result of our choices and actions.

 

Recognize that you make good choices

Although we will experience this milestone as perceiving ourselves as flawed, what it is really showing us is the multidimensional nature of everything that we do. There are always multiple interpretations of any given situation. When we first hit this milestone, we are going to question the correctness of the choices that we have made. What this milestone is meant to show us is that there are more than two sides to everything. It is essential that we acknowledge both at the time that we make a choice and take an action and in retrospect when it feels like we made a mistake, that it was still the best choice or the best action at the time with what we knew then.

 

Anytime we make a choice or take an action, it is invariably the best choice we can make in that moment with the information that we have available to us at the time. Then later, when additional or contradictory information becomes available it does not serve us to question whether we should have made a different choice and doing so only undermines our confidence in the ability to make effectual choices in the future. It is imperative for us to recognize that all we have to work with is what we are aware of in any given moment and refuse to be immobilized by the fear of making the wrong choice.

 

There are infinite possibilities

There are always an infinite number of possibilities in any given moment and when we only allow ourselves to recognize one or two options, we become very limited in our perspective of any given situation. When we don’t take into consideration the aspects of a situation that doesn’t serve us or doesn’t interest us our perspective becomes polarized and we move into judgment of ourselves and others.

 

This milestone offers us the opportunity to recognize is that there is never a right or wrong choice. There are always infinite possibilities inherent in any choice and each choice inevitably has consequences which create additional choices. Polarizing our options when presented with the necessity of making a choice only limits our ability to move forward. It is vital that we continue to make choices and avoid getting trapped in our own indecision.

 

Our choices create our future

Our choices determine the future that we create. As we are expanding into this new version of ourselves in 2009, we are going to recognize that we can be aware of multiple aspects of each situation more fully and able to make proficient choices as we navigate through our lives without becoming confused and overwhelmed.

 

As we continue to develop our ability to make choices from our hearts in alignment with who we are we will develop new criteria for how we make choices. We can use each new milestone that presents itself throughout 2009 to appreciate who we are and what we are capable of achieving and to recognize how our personal choices affect the evolution of the future for all of humanity.