Written by Michelle Robinson
Bach. Counselling. Dip. Clinical Hypnotherapy
I’ve spoken with quite a few people recently who feel confused about where their life is headed. With turmoil in many places in the world, as well as challenges in our personal lives, it’s easy to feel like we’re wandering around in the dark. The path ahead, that once we took for granted, seems suddenly harder to follow.
If you are experiencing these feelings, I want you to know that you are not alone.
Although we can’t see it with our eyes, each of us is part of a huge, shared energy field that encompasses all life on Earth. Like it or not, it’s almost impossible not to be intuitively affected by the disturbed energies that surround us. If those close to us are having a tough time, we will likely feel unsettled as well. On a planetary level, an explosion in the level of fear, violence and suffering, wherever that may occur, will affect us to some degree. As energetic beings, we can’t avoid being influenced by the energy ‘soup’ we are immersed in.
I’ve often likened the experience of living to driving a car along a road at night. Our headlights allow us to see a certain distance ahead, but it is impossible to know what’s coming around the corner. We continue travelling in good faith, assuming and hoping the road continues and that our journey will end safely.
The reality is that we can never be sure of what our next breath or the new day will bring. It’s soothing, but perhaps very naïve, to expect that our life will unfold just as we desire. Sometimes, the lessons we need to learn are hard and our highest growth comes from the courage in moving forward in dark times. If you feel like you are feeling your way, unable to see as clearly as you would like, then I assure you I feel the same. That’s what we signed up for.
A very close friend recently lost two sisters within five days. One passed from leukaemia, which was expected, but four days before that, her only other sister died suddenly from a blood clot that travelled to her heart. Both these events occurred less than a year after their brother had died from cancer.
How can my friend make sense of that? Her grief is overwhelming, and she feels as though her way forward has vanished. All I can do is listen to her, support her and allow her the space she needs to heal.
This true story brought home to me like a thunderclap that we cannot know how long each soul has chosen to live on Earth. These two sisters left the planet together, I believe, to reunite in the spirit world and continue growing in the way they need. They are fine.
My sympathies are with my friend, who now must find the light on her path and the meaning in her own life again. She is, in every sense, feeling her way, as though blindfolded from seeing her road ahead.
It’s okay to feel as though you are feeling your way. Don’t feel embarrassed to talk to those who you trust about your thoughts and feelings. Sometimes, just sharing our concerns helps us to glimpse little patches of light that might open for us.