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Breaking Circles |
The cycles and circles of life are the very basis of thought patterns. The sun coming up in the morning and setting at night is the most obvious circle that we all have to abide by. The journey of this ball of fire travelling across our skies punctuates the things we do and the activities we get up to. Eating and sleeping would be done in a different way if there was no light or dark, we would define our own cycle for physical living. Shift workers experience a different reality to day workers and so adjust the cycle accordingly. To break the cycle is to look at things in another light. Each time everything has to be looked at carefully again.
Cycles can last for minutes or thousands of years, for the purpose of this book we are concerned with those of days, months, years and decades. Astrological cycles and orbits of planets last for sometimes thousands of years, these are beyond our control but we are still effected by them. Our physical motions and activities are an embodiment of our daily cycles and as changing the way we do things can change the way we think, so changing the way we think alters our physical cycles. In this respect we break the circle so that it becomes a spiral of learning on more than one axis or plane. To break circles continually would become a cycle in itself, so we cannot escape going round and round at some level. Each cycle we are involved with is there for a purpose and it is progressive. Some are good for us and others bad. Waking in the morning meditating, breaking our fast, attending to our bodily needs during the day while earning to continue our survival then relaxing at night in preparation for rejuvenating sleep is a good cycle ensuring our health and continuity. An emotional cycle of trusting someone being let down, feeling hurt and insecure, then blindly trusting again to feel secure and loved then being let down again is a very destructive cycle, each time the cycle perpetuates the next phase until we are left ragged and torn apart.
It can be hard to recognize some circles as many will co-exist together to produce a complex situation encompassing large and small cycles. Many processes need to be repeated to live our life as in the simple example of waking through to sleeping. Being interdependent on each other, breaking what seems to be an insignificant circle changes the nature of other circles, giving us a gentle way of breaking large life changing cycles. These do not have to be that dramatic to have a beneficial effect neither is it our aim to break all circles, that would be insanity. The important message is the fact that we can change and move on when situations require us to. Breaking here there and everywhere would mean that we never completed anything learning nothing and being in constant upheaval. Which is strangely the same problem we encounter when a cycle is run and run long after it should have been broken.
A desire to change is the key element here. If everything in the garden is wonderful then there is no need for change until discord is perceived, then we need the tools to facilitate it. Many cycles are created and broken subconsciously without a problem. The ones we are interested in are those that prevent us from following our chosen path so retarding new growth; these usually have to be dealt with head on.
Breaking circles is just one of the methods we can employ to change our lives for the better. Its is a very real action we can take that gives an actual result and not something that is only in our heads. We can learn to flow far better by using what we have available rather than thinking we could do better if only. Break a few circles and those if onlys do not mean a great deal, we are actively getting what we need. The circles that we break do not have to be that momentous, a small change here, a new perspective there and before you know it you are achieving what you thought was the impossible. There are always a thousand reasons why we should not do something and using them to entrench ourselves in one position. There are better reasons to change and improve our lives and the world we live in.
These rules apply to working with spirit as well; they are not confined to everyday occurrences. Progression on the spiritual path includes progression on the physical journey as well. In fact, as spiritual awareness increases we may be asked to change our physical lives so that we can move on along the path. Living two separate lives may have to be a reality for some time but it is very wearing on our energy levels. When the conflicts become too great one or the other will have to take a back seat until such time that they can be merged. Our duality is difficult to get over at times, to be aware of it helps the process, to deny it as I have done in the past only means we are postponing it. There may be very good reasons for this postponement, perhaps being part of the learning process taking the right choice at the right time is important. Taking those decisions with full awareness of spirit and intuition means that hopefully we act in truth.
If we do make the wrong decision, the situation will come round again so that we can have another go at it. It may sound all very haphazard, being free thinking beings with free will we cannot be told what to do we have to feel it to learn. Guides will help all they can but if we are not listening or refuse to listen because we have gone off down some alley to satisfy our own egos for no particularly good reason they will wait until we return and are prepared to meet them half way again. The signs are always there to be seen if we care to look and listen. If what we think should be happening is not, we have got some part of the equation wrong. I try not to rule any part of that equation out however painful as it is sometimes. Our egos love to disturb the equilibrium. Spiritual cycles that have outgrown their usefulness are as damaging as the physical ones and they can be harder to spot because they are not physical. This is the value of looking at all messages given from spirit from all angles and levels. Who said it was going to be all beer and roses?
Guides are only one medium to spiritual development, some people find them a bit like talking to the messenger rather than the source of the information. I agree that using our own channels to receive the information straight from the universal energy is a great thing but at times we need reassurance and time to work things out. We need to learn the workings of the spirit world, how we can use it and be used by it if it is to part of our path. Kicking ideas around and enjoying our contact with guides allows us to work at differing levels, preparing our minds and psyches for the next step, and we can re-enforce our own channels by working with them. Our psychology is such that a good chat amongst ourselves lets us try things out in private. Getting to know the way we prefer to work provides a good base from which to move on to other goals. Personally I love working with guides and have derived great benefit from their presence. Always remember that the energy and information that we receive from them comes straight from the source.
Some people go through their lives never wanting to get to know about guides. Indeed some deny their existence but spend their lives helping others in other ways or concentrating on the task in hand. The task may not initially seem to have any spiritual base but this does not mean that they are any less spiritual than those who drench themselves in other dimensions. We all have our different journeys to travel to get to the wedding.
© Phil Ironside