Turning Points
Published: Wed, 03/21/12
Yesterday was the Easter Equinox, the day that day and night are equal in nature. It is a turning point in the year - the relationship of light and dark crosses a threshold.
Do you see or sense it? Probably not. Turning points, no matter how profound are rarely noticeable or obvious. It is a point, a moment, so hard to observe.
You notice when the new reality or relationship has become dramatic enough to get your attention, when you have developed enough consciousness sensitivity to perceive it, or you have the emotional equanimity to not be fearful of turning points.
This is true with all turning points - the ones in nature and the ones in our souls. As I look at turning points, I see the threshold between life and death, death and life. Something in me dies and something new is born - a new perspective, a new form, a new activity, a new relationship.
Think about your personal turning points. Was the turning point an event, an encounter, a new environment?
Look at work, relationship, your sense of self management, or your sense of moral development and write down 3-5 turning points. How did you turn toward growing light or growing darkness? Or what was born into your life of soul, or what died?
Now in reflection, ask yourself the questions that lead to finding yourself, knowing yourself, becoming yourself. "What happened? How did I realize this turning had occurred? Did I miss the point? Was I afraid? Did I celebrate?
Please note that the turning points in your childhood are often painful ones, which may have left you traumatized. To take up a practice of observing your turning points can be healing for these traumas, liberating from biographical limitations and empowering of your resolution of karma and fulfillment of destiny. Understandably you may want to avoid turning points altogether, but they do occur. Find your confidence.
Observing the point of turning as close to the point as possible indicates a highly developed sense of self. Work at this and you will be rewarded with an inner alertness that feels good and right regardless of the nature of your turning point.
If you feel you want to develop a greater awareness of your turning points, I encourage you to subscribe to the Inner Year Journal. Enrich your Inner Spring by beginning this practice of self-observation.
The Threefold Imagination of
The Inner Year Journal
The tagline for all my work is "find yourself, know
yourself, become yourself." The symbolic metaphors are "a map, a mirror,
a method." In preparing the Seasonal Review page for the Journal I
suddenly saw how these apply. In creating the Journal, I hadn't given
the tagline or the metaphors a thought but they are so imbedded in my
creative consciousness, in my way of seeing, that I no longer have to
work at manifesting the imagination. Nonetheless I was delighted when I
realized that the archetype was right there! Let me share.
The Weekly Journal Pages provide a map of your inner world of self - the world only you can discover and inhabit.
Each of us because we share our humanness are given the same potential inner world. As we begin to move through life, environments, events, elements, and encounters begin to shape and alter our own inner world and its parts and territories into unique and complex configurations.
Each of us because we share our humanness are given the same potential inner world. As we begin to move through life, environments, events, elements, and encounters begin to shape and alter our own inner world and its parts and territories into unique and complex configurations.
As the IYJ Map allows you to find yourself as it
guides you to each of the islands, territories, mountains, valleys, seas
of your inner life. You recollect and make note of what of what you
found there during the the previous week. You find yourself.
The Seasonal Review changes the
metaphor and the activity to the mirror of self-knowing. In reviewing
what you found in using the map of the weekly pages, an image begins to
be reflected in your soul. You begin to recognize yourself. You see your
ways of thinking, feeling, and willing. Patterns, potential, and
perspectives in the image reflect glimmers of your karma and your
destiny.
The Yearly Review (also known as
Inner Advent) offers the method for becoming yourself. This creative
process directs you into a growing awareness and understanding of your
inner evolution or becoming. A warm enthusiasm for your self-unfolding
begins to compassionately melt attachments to deadening concepts,
restricting feelings, and rigidifying postures.
All three elements of the Inner Year Journal
program are moral/spiritual disciplines that do not come easily. You
must commit and practice, regardless of resistance, distraction and
doubt. But you also must forgive, relax, restore when you waver, fade or
neglect your IYJ practice. We are in the stage of the evolution of
consciousness where we can wholeheartedly recognize the rightness of
something, yet not be able to follow through completely. Just keep
reconnecting your desire with your will. Soon the connection will grow
in strength and perseverance. Always be kind to yourself, but beware of
indulgence.
a map to find yourself
a mirror to know yourself
a method to become yourself
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