The Comfort or the Chaos

Which do You prefer?

It can seem like a good idea, the notion of comfort, that is. I mean, there is a bit of a karmic tsunami going on. Indeed, comfort, or perhaps taking the time to rest and ground yourself, can be very beneficial for you. Is that the ticket for getting through all this collective chaos?

There are always pluses and minuses to everything. I mean, to talk about a plus, Heaven itself! In the beginning was the Light! Heaven right there. Before creation got started, well, it was already Heaven. The Light of Unconditional Love. Perfect … right?

Well, Heaven, in and of itself, can’t give you the experience of being in form. Being in a body. Incarnation into human form for all the experiences it can offer you. There are no villains in heaven. And there are no heroes too. Heaven is non-local and non-dualistic. In the beginning was (just) the Light.

As we move through the collective narrative that we are all living out, we are bumping up against … chaos, really. There is so much information and emotions being tossed around in our collective story. For many of us, we are exhausted and worn down trying to navigate it all.

Have you ever had a period of time where you life was, perhaps, easy and fun? Maybe when you first fell in Love? Or perhaps when you first got married? Or perhaps the first few year in your dream job? Doing what you loved? A time when you were living on cloud nine? And then something difficult happened? Perhaps the loss of a loved one? Or your life was thrown into ruin by, perhaps, a flood or natural disaster? What happened after that? How long were you devastated? What I am getting at here, is your psyche or persona.

For myself, I clicked off a decade or more, working my dream job. I had landed the perfect job at a prominent television station working as a broadcast engineer. I was having the time of my life. A life of comfort and delight. But, I was ignoring a very big part of myself. A part of me that I didn’t know anything about. It was slowly compressing my life, really. Compressing in that I was avoiding more and more of my life. All of this was happening subconsciously. Below the radar. I wasn’t aware my life was getting further and further out of balance. I was really headed for a big crash.

There is a curious thing about life. About being a human. About living our life. As a soul, we came here for the human experience. ALL of the human experience. The positive and the negative. There is a quote, I don’t know who first said it, but it goes like this: “What we resist, persists.” What we avoid, remains with us. It is actually a very elegant mechanism. You could easily call it karma. If we avoid some aspect of our lives, perhaps our feelings or our (in-congruent) beliefs, they create a karmic momentum of sorts. Even though it is adding karma to our psyche or persona, it can feel “normal” and even comfortable. We can feel a sense of comfort, even though what we are actually doing is moving out of balance with ourselves.

There is a blessing in the chaos. It is perhaps just what we need to break up our sense of “normal.” Normal, by its very nature, cannot assist change. Normal basically means more of the same.  If that normal life we have been living has us avoiding aspects of ourselves, perhaps certain emotions or beliefs, then chaos might be just the ticket to wake us from our subconscious karmic stigmas. For example, I had avoided the feeling of anger, for decades, a very dysfunctional behavior, but I had created a very comfortable sense of normal out of it. I could have (tried to) stay in that sense of comfort as long as I could, but eventually my life couldn’t be able to sustain itself forever having come so far out of balance. I needed to feel the uncomfortable feelings I had suppressed, if I were to be able to sustain a sense of balance in my life.

The chaos we are being exposed to can be a wonderful gift. The chaos itself, is indeed showing us collectively, just how far out of balance we have come as a society. And it can show us, ourselves, arenas of our psyche that we may have been subconsciously  avoiding. Feelings that might not feel so comfortable. We, as souls, chose to come here to learn ALL about the human experience. The good and the “bad.” How can we experience the hero archetype unless there are villains to be slain? Who will be playing the role of the villain? Both the hero and the villain archetype are intended to be experienced. “Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.” ~ Rumi

What feelings or beliefs are keeping you out of balance? Perhaps give them the awareness that they need to allow you to return to a greater sense of balance. The best feeling of comfort, is when your psyche is in balance with itself.

Love You!

Les

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