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1d ago

One More Step

Can you feel the path that lies before you? Can you keep your eyes on the path rather than the distractions that are off it? Can you keep your mind on the next step rather than the destination? Can you let your soul lead you to the place the universe has prepared for you? Sometimes I return to these and I wonder about my word choice. The juxtaposition of feeling, seeing, and being led. Three different ways to progress. While they are related, they are different. Seeing is concrete, feeling is less so and being led requires neither feeling nor seeing but something between trust and surrender. Of the three, I’m the most comfortable with seeing. I want to know what is in front of me and strategize about how to make it better. That requires more than feeling or being led. But I’m learning that much of what I see is illusory or conditional. I see a lot less than I think I do. Feeling my way forward is uncomfortable but in some ways, I have more faith in what I feel than what I see. As you read this I wonder: * Are you seeing, feeling, or being led today? Why is that? * Can you allow yourself to continue in the face of distraction, to not let what happens around you always change what happens within you? * Can you trust yourself or another enough to be led in peace? Being led is the hardest. For me at least, it’s hard to trust myself enough to lead without assessment. Oddly, there are people around me I trust more than myself, maybe not to see but to feel or to lead. This week, can you connect more closely with yourself and with others so that you have more faith in what you feel and see? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aconstantbecoming.substack.com
3d ago

Offense and Defense

Can you sit with your unique form of strength today? Can you strive for instead of fighting against? Can you persevere in the face of challenges? Can you hold tight to your worth instead of defending it? Can you know you are enough simply by nature of your being? Sometimes it’s hard for me to stop fighting in favor of striving. I don’t mean fighting in the physical sense. But to me, fighting is pushing back against an external force while striving is seeking to arrive. Sometimes we are doing both, but often, I am more comfortable fighting. There’s a clear enemy when I’m fighting. When I’m striving however, I’m mostly competing with myself. And striving can be more about whether I’m enough rather than whether I was able to overcome the force. And so striving, at least for me, puts more of my self worth on the table. If I’m fighting I might be beaten but if I’m striving I might just fail. And so the challenge of striving is holding on to your inherent worth when things don’t go as you wanted. Because there is no external force that beat you…you simply didn’t arrive. As you read this I wonder: * Do you feel the difference between fighting and striving? * Can you seek to spend more of your energy on striving? * Can you believe enough in you to keep the faith when your striving doesn’t quite get you where you want to be? The other difference I guess is that striving is forever but whatever I fight against will eventually go away. So when we strive, we need to allow ourselves the chance to rest and drift. I hope this week you find a chance not to stop striving but to allow yourself to take a moment. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aconstantbecoming.substack.com
5d ago

The Path and the Pace

Can you let the river carry you a moment? Can you rest your paddle, your body and your soul? Can you trust in the universe to take you where you need to be, that the path and the pace it has laid out are taking you to somewhere you belong? It truly is hard for me to be at rest. I don’t mean that in the sense of I can’t take a break. I’m actually comfortable not being in motion and doing little. What I’m not comfortable with is not progressing when I’m doing something. If I’m active, I have a need to achieve, to progress, to move. And there is a minimum pace of progress that I hold myself to or “it doesn’t count.” But I was reminded today in a different context that there are many forms of achievement. That witnessing beauty is something wonderful and worthy of note. That even if you didn’t progress in a macro sense, you are always moving in all directions, forward and back, side to side. So the question again is one of focus. Will you choose to look at the steps forward or not? As you read this I wonder: * Can you make it less about where you are on the river than the fact that you get to be on it? * Can you choose to see progress even when it may not be the dominant theme of the moment? * Can you believe that hands beyond yours are on the oars, on the tiller, manning the sails? One of my biggest struggles is that I often have a narrow definition of achievement. This week, can you see more of the types of achievement that exist and allow that to give yourself the peace to effort a bit less? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aconstantbecoming.substack.com
Jul 17

Close Your Eyes

On those days when you don't see clearly, can you close your eyes? Can you simply feel? Can you separate utility from connection, anticipation from gratitude, and what your heart yearns for from what makes sense? Now, can you open your eyes and walk forward with confidence? Sometimes I feel like I’m squinting at life. Things aren’t clear and I’m working to somehow claw meaning or clarity through the fog. And, almost every time I try to do this, one of two things happens. Either I get no closer to clarity or I invent a story to explain why clarity hasn’t yet come. Rarely if ever, does putting more effort into perception increase my clarity. And so I wonder whether we should simply close our eyes and take a break when things aren’t clear. Instead of trying to see it now, give the universe a moment and come back to it. You can’t see through the fog by squinting, but, over time, the fog tends to lift or you sail through it and see more clearly on the other side. As you read this I wonder: * What do you most want clarity on but don’t yet have it? * Can you look away or close your eyes for a moment and feel the relief? * Can you be sure that tomorrow will give you a different perspective and that clarity will come, at some point? As we close out the week, can you be willing to let your perception change over time, see what is ahead, and sail on without ever committing to one specific port? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aconstantbecoming.substack.com
Jul 15

As Good As...

Can you avoid comparing your reality to your predictions? Can you see the good in today even when it isn't all that you want? Can you understand that your intentions are a way of steering your path not destinations unto themselves? Can you take peace in the fact that you are sheltered, treasured and loved? Comparisons are vital to survival and yet they are difficult to address. We need to know whether something is too hot to touch or if the water is too cold to jump into. But when we are comparing reality with hope, it rarely fully measures up. It’s so very easy to get locked in to an outcome and define anything less as a disappointment. I think there are two issues in that. The first is your eyes on the prize can miss what is happening along the way. And the second is that what you planned may not be what you need to take the next step. Indeed, the hoped for outcome often lacks a prompt to keep moving. It’s a resting place rather than a spot along the journey. As you read this I wonder: * What have you locked in on in terms of an outcome? Can you release it just a little? * Can you realize that we are always moving on and set your guideposts accordingly? * And the entire way, can you be secure that you are loved, not by all, but always by enough? I now see the focus on just one outcome, from how a meeting will go to the shape of a relationship, as a trap. It takes hundreds or thousands of wonderful experiences and makes them “not enough.” Today, can you be willing to accept that less than you imagined is often still amazing? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aconstantbecoming.substack.com
Jul 13

Your mirror

Who do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you see a parent, a friend, a love, a helper, a giver, a receiver? Or do you see a failure, one who misses opportunities, one who is often not at their best? Of course all of these things and more are true but which will you choose to see today? Very few people know this but I hate to look in the mirror. It’s funny how much of life you can do without doing so. What I see there is never quite what I want to see and so I tend to avoid it. I feel the same way about the little window on the video conference that shows me. That’s a lot harder to avoid seeing but I can avoid paying attention to it. But I do think I’ve gotten better at self-perception. I see all of those things above and more at times. I also think they are not mutually exclusive and more than one is true at a time. Perhaps the lesson I still have to learn is in the last line. I’m many things in every moment and trying to just see one is not being true to who I am. As you read this I wonder: * Who do you see when you look in the mirror? * How do you see more of you and not overly focus on one element? * Who can you go to when you need to refocus your perception? When was the last time you had the conversation? We don’t think a lot about what we perceive, we just do. And perception shapes everything, our feeling, our thinking, our actions. And so, as you start the week, can you perceive more broadly, not to see yourself as better but to see more of the total picture? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aconstantbecoming.substack.com
Jul 10

It's In Your Hands

Will you choose hope today? Will you choose to believe you are safe, loved, and seen? Will you choose belief today? Will you choose to have faith in those who hold you close? Will you choose you today? It truly is your choice. How will you make it? In some ways, this one strikes at my very core. In my darker moments, I am an agent that is acted on by forces outside of me. Something or someone is making my life less what I want it to be. Or, in my own mind, less that I need it to be. But I continue to learn that the story of others making me miserable may not be false but it is not the whole story. I have so many choices, regardless of what is going on in the background. I can choose to whom I listen. I can choose what to believe things mean. I can choose to believe what people say to me or discount it to support my own story. In a very real sense, none of these things change what is going on; but, all of them change what I feel or think or imagine about what is going on. As you read this I wonder: * What would make you more likely to choose hope today? * Why do you sometimes choose to ignore the endless blessings you have in favor of the thing that is not right? * Can you see that choosing you is not about being selfish but rather about being faithful to the full suite of things that are around you? There’s an old saying, “Hope springs eternal.” I don’t really think that’s true. But the Spring of Hope is always a mere moment away. As we close the week, can you take a moment to refresh yourself and feel safer and more secure in the path before you? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aconstantbecoming.substack.com
Jul 8

But I Want To Know

Can you be ok with not knowing until it is time? Can you allow uncertainty to be neutral rather than a crisis? Can you find time for hope as well as for fear? Can you be held in your moment of doubt? I had the joy of spending the week a few weeks ago with my family, my father, stepmother, sister, her kids, my kids, and my two grandchildren. It was the grandchildren that made me think of the opening of this. The thing that struck me about them was that they needed to know now…what was for dinner, where we were going, what someone was doing who wasn’t in the room. The time for knowing, for them, was now. And I think that carries forward for many of us, including me. Not knowing is difficult. And it’s even more difficult, particularly these days, to treat not knowing as neutral and not a problem to be solved. What has changed for me over time is that I know I am held in my moment of doubt, sometimes by the people who are with me physically and always by the people who are closest to my soul. As you read this, I wonder: * What would allow you to believe more fully that knowledge comes in its time? * Can the absence of information simply be the absence of information and not a signal that needs urgent explanation? * Can you reach out to those who hold you in your moment of doubt and acknowledge their contribution? What has changed so very much in my life is my certainty that I need not face my doubts alone, that I am supported without question, not by all, but by enough to change the face of doubt. May you see those who support you a bit more clearly this week and may they help you hope. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aconstantbecoming.substack.com

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