Dear Ones,
In these challenging times, it is easy to retreat into habitual patterns. If solitude is your traditional solace, you may find yourself isolating in response to stress. If you relieve anxiety through constant motion, you may feel it impossible to slow down. Please consider the option of inverting your strategies, of trying something new or different, in your interface both with your interior self and the world at large. Quiet yourself where you are used to engaging. Step out where retreat might have worked in the past. Let yourself do things at a slightly different angle from your usual approach and see what happens.

Now, we do recognize that to ask of you to try something new under stress seems untenable. What is stress for if not to reinforce the survival strategies you have cultivated all your life? What is more likely to increase stress and anxiety than to attempt the new and unusual in times of duress? And yet, this is precisely what is required of you now. Not because we request it – we are merely giving it voice and offering the suggestion. But because it is the fast track to change you have been seeking. We just wish to point that out.

Everything that has frustrated you in your life, all the pain and suffering you have experienced as a result of feeling stuck, feeling out of control, feeling helpless, all this can be resolved in times of transition and change. When times are trying, they are also presenting wide open opportunities to Do Something New, to Do Something Differently, to Evolve, to Change, to Grow. When the winds of change are swirling around you, lean the way they blow you, or let go altogether. No need to resist. What an idea.

Now is the time to shift towards the unknown. Give it a try. All the patterns of your lifetime, while they have kept you going, cannot carry you into the future you now desire (and desire, dear ones, is not a dirty word). Everything prior to these times has brought you prepared to exist here and now and to imagine things that could come next. But what will carry you into this new and different world? The same old things? Not likely. Now is the time, while the sands are shifting beneath your feet, to give up the ways of the past and trust your skills and resilience to build your new life and the life that will benefit others, forward, onward, otherward… Now.

Much love and many blessings to you all,
BlueStar & Counsel of Light