Allowing for Change

Sometimes it can be difficult to accept change or even to acknowledge its hovering presence.

Yet all things change. It is inherent in nature. Just observe the path of a leaf from spring to fall. It bursts to life in the spring with dazzling color and lives a noteworthy life bristling with the wind and bouncing sunlight off its blade. As fall arrives, the leaf doesn't become stiff and unreceptive to the changing environment. It changes with the cooler weather, first choosing another brilliant color as if trumpeting a new time in its brief life. Finally, as it loses its vitality, the leaf lets go and falls to the ground. Even at the end of life, the leaf demands nothing. It flows gracefully along with life's changes.

The leaf is a perfect visual of the Taos in action — living a life of simplicity and harmony while allowing natural events to occur. Sometimes it falls directly to the ground, while other times it is carried on the wings of the wind to another destination.

Change is not only necessary, it is certain. Plato said the world is composed of opposites. There cannot be life without death, success without failure, joy without pain.

This is a time of change. Great changes. With the first African-American president and the acute state of the economy, we have crucial decisions to make. Things simply cannot be as they have been.

If one chooses to be unyielding and rigid to the changing environment, not allowing personal or professional changes to take place, one may break. This message is not about Wall Street or big business, it is about you. How are you going to allow for change within your own life?

If one chooses to be open and receptive to the path one is being directed, it creates harmony with the energy of the universe. More than that, it creates the the flexibility necessary to being resilient.

For me, I have no idea where I am being led. Yet, I trust God is leading me and I am tasked with remaining open to whatever or wherever that is. I have been in business for myself for 13 years. Will I remain in business for another 13 years? I have no idea. The only thing I have complete confidence in is that all will be okay. I am a vessel allowing the universe to fill me and lead me. I have no resistance.

What needs to change in your life that you are resisting?