2011 - The Year of Transition/2012 - The Year of Emergence
by Stefanie Brown
It is hard to believe that 2011 is almost
at an end. So much has happened this year globally; however, I would like
to talk about what has happened in women's lives personally. 2011 has been
the year of Transition, a year of changes, a time of being "stretched" beyond
where you are and who you thought you were.
If you look back over this year, can you
say that you are in the same position mentally, emotionally, spiritually
and even physically right now as you were on January 1, 2011?
If you can answer YES to any of the following
questions, then you are/have been in the process of Transition:
1. Have events in your life in the past three
to five years seemed to have stalled/slowed down only to have increased in
the last year like a whirlwind, turning things upside down and inside
out?
2. Have you noticed that you are not content
with where you are at and feel that there is something you need to reach
for, yet you cannot grasp it?
3. Do you feel like you are inside of a "shell"
looking outside of yourself and your life?
4. Are events in your life right now, at this
moment, seemingly similar to events that happened YEARS ago in your life
and yet you are handling them different?
5. Do you find circumstances being presented
to you that cause you to look inside of yourself more than you ever did (maybe
for the first time), and you are developing a greater awareness of who you
are?
6. Have you been pushed to almost a "breaking
point" where you felt that you just cannot take one more thing being put
on your plate or tossed in your direction?
7. Have you felt that you are being pulled
in all directions at the same time?
8. Have you lost your job or have you become
increasingly dissatisfied with your profession?
Answering yes to even one of the above questions
is validation that you have been in a stage of Transition and Transition
leads to Emergence! Just as the labor stage of transition is painful, so
has been the transition of women's lives this past year. It was all preparation
for the next stage, Emergence.
The dictionary defines "emergence" as: "the
appearance of new properties or species in the course of development or
evolution; a recovering of consciousness."
2012 is the year of EMERGENCE, a coming out
of the old and into the new. Emergence brings a new creation of mindsets,
a new view of ourselves and our lives. This time of Emerging is like waking
up from a deep sleep, rubbing your eyes, stretching, adjusting your eyes
to the light and your surroundings and getting your bearings. Some of you
may experience the "sense" that you know you've been here before but yet
something feels very new, just not quite the same. There is a lighter feeling
that you are experiencing. You are not feeling heavy laden and burden weary.
Even though the same burdens that had you crawling on the floor due to the
weight before may still be present, you will now be able to effortlessly
glide along and put them into their respective place. A new MINDSET is EMERGING.
A new VISION IS EMERGING. A NEW PLAN IS EMERGING.
However, before we can emerge, we must finish
the Transition stage. Transition may have involved for some women a time
of grieving (and grieving takes many forms). All grief stems from loss, i.e.
the loss of a marriage/relationship, finances, loss as in the death of a
loved one, loss of property, loss of identity of oneself, etc. A deep work
is being done in the lives of women today.
This stage of Transition has been a time where
some women never realized how much they didn't grieve YEARS ago due to a
loss until one small event may trigger the grief emotion and women soon find
themselves hurting deeply. If you find yourself in this situation presently,
do not run from it or try to numb it. People can numb pain from loss in many
ways, such as involving themselves in numerous activities to keep busy, paying
attention to others' lives instead of themselves, substance
use/overeating/undereating, etc. There are many ways people tell themselves
they are "healed" or are "fine" when in reality something that happened 10,
20 or even 30 years ago was never dealt with due to escape methods.
Loss requires pain. Pain is not a negative
emotion. It is necessary in grieving, and especially in moving on. If we
never experience pain, i.e. if we live life feeling numb or move along like
the walking dead, one never will grow or move on and living for what you
were created for seems almost impossible. Pain is a requirement for healing
and moving on.
I also can tell you pain impedes vision.
If we focus on the pain as a negative and not embrace it and allow the season
to fully mature and pass on (die) (yes, pain dies), then we lose vision.
It seems like during these seasons of our lives is when God/The Universe,
however you want to term it, brings someone or people around us to see for
us and guide us through.
Losses are gains, even though not all of them
seem that way. There are those losses in life that hurt to our core. I do
know that those who experience the extremes in life are usually the ones
who are called to a destiny of immense proportions.
Someone said to me a long time ago when I
was going through a season of grief/loss that "People are waiting on the
other side of your obedience. They need what you have to give them." We as
women were created to be forerunners, to lead, not follow. We need to be
obedient to the healing process and allow ourselves the privilege and duty
of being healed of all that would hinder our destiny from coming to fulfillment.
So I say this to those women who are grieving/hurting, "People are waiting
on the other side of your obedience. They need what you have to give
them."
So, with the Transition stage being a time
that includes the healing of the deep wounds, ask yourself these
questions:
1. Do you find yourself thinking about the
past one or more times per day?
2. If your answer to #1 is yes, write down
specifically what you are thinking about.
3. Write down all that you "miss" from that
area of your life.
4. Write down all that you do not miss from
that area of your life.
5. Look at what you wrote in #3 and say out
loud, "I want to be healed."
Too easy? Quite the contrary. You are now
receptive to the Universe to heal those core issues inside and reveal those
core areas that you didn't know needed healing. It is a quick work in this
season. Long counseling sessions and years of psychotherapy are not needed
:. Nothing else at this moment is needed on your part except to receive the
healing. Be forewarned. By speaking your intention out loud, you have just
beckoned the Universe to bring healing to you. The events are now set in
motion to happen and happen they will. Pay attention to the people who enter
your life and those who are removed.
As you look at this past year and note the
situations that have occurred in your life, keep in mind it was to prepare
you for 2012. The time for you to become who you were created to be is here.
It is NOW.
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