Darkness Into Light

This morning, Spirit suggested I write about Transforming Darkness Into Light. Yes, that I heard, but then the difficulty began. Instead of listening, I kept sticking my two sense in. I wrote and deleted, wrote and deleted, wrote and deleted. Not that there was anything wrong with what I wrote, it was probably fine and would have gotten the point across, but I knew it was not what Spirit was meaning for me to say. So, after a while, I took to simply taking a few minutes to sit at my computer in front of the empty screen to just breathe and be and observe myself. I'd observe my breath and watch it shift, I'd observe my thoughts and watch them shift. Again and again, I sat down at my computer and watched it happen and just waited to be inspired rather than forcing. By this afternoon, I was having another conversation with Spirit, letting "it" know that time was running out for today and I was still uncertain what the true message was here. Again, I just sat and observed and waited to be inspired.

Not long after that, I received an e-mail from another practitioner I know. It was her monthly newsletter for November entitled, "Shifts Happen." In it she talked about observing herself and noticing the shifts in her breath simply as she observed, doing nothing else to "make it happen." She also spoke about being a practitioner, the observer/witness of others, and how simply by witnessing the client she was able to watch the shifts happen within them. She compared it to what atomic physicists learned not so long ago, that "the object of research cannot be separated from the researcher." In other words through the simple act of observance, we have an effect on what we observe.

In those moments, I came to realize, this was all I needed to share. This was exactly the process I put myself in today (and every other day) as I waited for a message from Spirit and little did I know at the time, I was living the message. For it is simply through our willingness to observe ourselves, that "Shifts Happen." It is this very process of observing and shifting that transforms us, the very process that moves us from Darkness Into Light.