Change can be elusive, even stubborn or scary, and yet can hold the fullness of light, hope, and fearlessness. Change is a state of altering, something is transforming. Change is much like seeing and approaching a door. A door of change is the entryway or exit from one state of being to another. You know that to proceed you must go through the door to enter the next area. Change can be our atmospheres, our body, mind, emotions, focus, understanding, or careers.
One of the most fascinating subjects of change is our perceptions. Our perceptions change as we change. And just like going to someone’s home, you wouldn’t enter without knocking, you also need to knock to have opened unto you more perceptions in times of change. This knocking can take on a varied number of exercises or disciplines. Regardless of choices in disciplines for spiritual changes, the key is to knock to have it opened unto you. Just like the knock at the door sounds one way depending on the intensity and attitude or heart and mind of the one knocking. Perceptions have been debated heavily in the past century and even more so with the new rollout of quantum physics perceptions. Our own state of perception does not automatically mean someone else is at the same state of consciousness alongside us. We can experience the same room, atmosphere, or day with someone, and yet have completely different perceptions in that given space-time.
I had an interesting discussion last week with my husband about subjective reality vs. objective reality. It was interesting to hear his heart and mind on what he chooses to accept as reality, based on a perception that particular junctures truly differ from mine. But we choose to love and care for each other regardless of whether the other person is in the same awareness perception or not. One’s own consciousness directly correlates to their perceptions. We then use this filter of what we’ve perceived as our basis for belief and defend it as our own understanding of truth. Psychology teaches that repetition of any fact or group of facts seems truer simply because they have been repeated, whether or not they are in fact true. This understanding proves perceptions are quite affected by what we allow ourselves to be disciplined in growing our spiritual senses. This spiritual growth process is training. If this spiritual training is given attention, care and focus, we will enlarge much more than if we hurry harried about spiritual development.
In my journey, I have met many Jews, Muslims, Christians, Atheists, New Agers, Agnostics and discovered regardless of belief systems, does not qualify you or automatically make you spiritually discerning or perceptive. In fact, many I have found to be participants in spiritual activities and yet still do not perceive the unseen realm of the Spirit. Once awakened and discerning one should continue to grow in discerning. Growth and renewal are required to separate spiritual maturity from immaturity.
Precious promises of spiritual laws of the unseen realm are all governed by God’s (Source’s) overall character and nature of goodness. That goodness is always flowing and moving, and what stops it is us. One of my favorites scripture is, “…ask and you will know, seek and you will find, knock and it shall be opened….”. We can flow and create and let ourselves change with the winds of change, or we can resist and be stubborn and cause ourselves much harm or hindrances in life. Some get stuck in their journey, I too have been stuck before. This is often painful and sad to see in others. More times than not, we refuse to allow the change to expand or enlarge us because the door of change is not perceived. Sometimes this is due to real fears, wounds, misunderstandings, or the inability to discern what is right for us in the choice. We all have to face choices in change. One most effective key to unlocking the door of change, that adds much beauty and rest, is the key of humility. The way to best receive is through the position and key of humility.
