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Dissolving or 'Shapeshifting' Obstacles
- By Jamie Walters
- Published 02/24/2009
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Jamie Walters
Jamie Walters is an inspired 'creative inquirist', transformation guide, inspiration catalyst, and "prophet of an emerging new economy of intelligent, caring, cutting edge entrepreneurs.
She is the founder of Ivy Sea, Inc., author of Big Vision, Small Business the handbook for conscious SOHO/Solo enterprise published by Berrett-Koehler — and Leading at the Visionary Edge (forthcoming from ICFAI University Press). She is also the creatrix of Ivy Sea Online.
Jamie integrates her professional / business experience with her energy, shamanic, and Indigenous Wisdom training, to help individuals and organizations cultivate vision, intuition, creativity, and other innate and unique gifts, and apply them in the workplace and other areas of life.
This liberation of this innate 'genius' supports skillful communication, transformation, conscious business,and a meaningful, purpose-aligned way of being and working.
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Many people are experiencing obstacles and challenges that stir up old and new fears, anxieties, and stress. Some might be worried about financial issues, others might be worried about losing a job, or a host of other issues.
Fear seems to be everywhere these days -- 'in the ether' -- and we may even be picking it up energetically (yes, that's a possibility!). Yet we know that giving over to fear constricts the possibility for something better than the 'worst case scenario'.
We've all been there at some point, and may find ourselves right now faced with what seems an impenetrable obstacle. I certainly have; it seems that it's very much a part of life, and part of how Life calls us into our greater potentials and abilities by asking us to shed limiting patterns that keep us small and feeling powerless.
There has to be a better way; and very often, there is.
My own experiences with seemingly fearsome or immovable obstacles and the anxiety they stir up has led me to greater abilities, whole new perspectives, and wisdom and practices that are powerful -- and powerfully helpful even in times of great challenge.
In indigenous and ancient wisdom traditions, we learn that we can 'shapeshift' or transform obstacles, and while there are many accounts of how this happens (and it actually happening), it's hard for us to believe because it flies in the face of what we've been taught.
Can you dissolve or shapeshift the obstacles that are before you? Yes, though it may be in different ways from what we expect (or not), and it requires practices that take place despite current worries, fears, and old ways of seeing things. It's 'mastery practice', right in the belly of the crucible!
And this is the heart of it -- changing the way we believe, think, feel, and see or perceive the obstacles before us and our own power or capacity to influence it or navigate it more skillfully and perceptively.
Both ancient wisdom and new science tell us this -- that we're more powerful than we realize in influencing our experience, through changing our thoughts, beliefs, patterns of reaction or response, and feeling. It all comes down to vibration; it's all energy and it's all vibration. By shifting that, we shift our experience or how we view it -- and by shifting our perception, we can't help but shift our experience.
This takes practice; sometimes a lot of practice, in the moment, each day. Yet it's practice that offers an immediate benefit if we can keep it up in the face of challenges.
We can view the current obstacles and challenges as insurmountable -- powerful 'things' over which we have no power and are simply the victims of. Or we can look at whatever challenges or obstacles are facing us and ask better questions, embracing the possibility that they're actually opportunities for something new and unexpected to be born within us, and thus in our experience.
Ultimately, by reclaiming your own power where you've given it away, by shifting your perspective, by engaging with Life differently, by working energetically, by inviting your own intuition, creativity, and Higher Guidance, you can change both perception and your experience of life (including challenges) for the better. Challenges become 'power portals'.
There are articles, PDF workbooks, tele-classes, and consultations available at Ivy Sea to help you shapeshift your perception and approach to your current challenges and obstacles -- to help you engage with them more powerfully, taking back power and energy that you've given away.
You can also schedule a mentor-coaching session or series, or a consultation, to help you get a new perspective on and shapeshift current obstacles, and enliven new practices and potentials in your experience -- send us an email.
I'd be delighted to speak with you about the possibilities.
Wishing you very well.
Sincerely,
Jamie Walters, Author, Mentor-Guide, and Founder, Ivy Sea
Fear seems to be everywhere these days -- 'in the ether' -- and we may even be picking it up energetically (yes, that's a possibility!). Yet we know that giving over to fear constricts the possibility for something better than the 'worst case scenario'.
We've all been there at some point, and may find ourselves right now faced with what seems an impenetrable obstacle. I certainly have; it seems that it's very much a part of life, and part of how Life calls us into our greater potentials and abilities by asking us to shed limiting patterns that keep us small and feeling powerless.
There has to be a better way; and very often, there is.
My own experiences with seemingly fearsome or immovable obstacles and the anxiety they stir up has led me to greater abilities, whole new perspectives, and wisdom and practices that are powerful -- and powerfully helpful even in times of great challenge.
In indigenous and ancient wisdom traditions, we learn that we can 'shapeshift' or transform obstacles, and while there are many accounts of how this happens (and it actually happening), it's hard for us to believe because it flies in the face of what we've been taught.
Can you dissolve or shapeshift the obstacles that are before you? Yes, though it may be in different ways from what we expect (or not), and it requires practices that take place despite current worries, fears, and old ways of seeing things. It's 'mastery practice', right in the belly of the crucible!
And this is the heart of it -- changing the way we believe, think, feel, and see or perceive the obstacles before us and our own power or capacity to influence it or navigate it more skillfully and perceptively.
Both ancient wisdom and new science tell us this -- that we're more powerful than we realize in influencing our experience, through changing our thoughts, beliefs, patterns of reaction or response, and feeling. It all comes down to vibration; it's all energy and it's all vibration. By shifting that, we shift our experience or how we view it -- and by shifting our perception, we can't help but shift our experience.
This takes practice; sometimes a lot of practice, in the moment, each day. Yet it's practice that offers an immediate benefit if we can keep it up in the face of challenges.
We can view the current obstacles and challenges as insurmountable -- powerful 'things' over which we have no power and are simply the victims of. Or we can look at whatever challenges or obstacles are facing us and ask better questions, embracing the possibility that they're actually opportunities for something new and unexpected to be born within us, and thus in our experience.
Ultimately, by reclaiming your own power where you've given it away, by shifting your perspective, by engaging with Life differently, by working energetically, by inviting your own intuition, creativity, and Higher Guidance, you can change both perception and your experience of life (including challenges) for the better. Challenges become 'power portals'.
There are articles, PDF workbooks, tele-classes, and consultations available at Ivy Sea to help you shapeshift your perception and approach to your current challenges and obstacles -- to help you engage with them more powerfully, taking back power and energy that you've given away.
You can also schedule a mentor-coaching session or series, or a consultation, to help you get a new perspective on and shapeshift current obstacles, and enliven new practices and potentials in your experience -- send us an email.
I'd be delighted to speak with you about the possibilities.
Wishing you very well.
Sincerely,
Jamie Walters, Author, Mentor-Guide, and Founder, Ivy Sea