First of all: I CANNOT believe it’s been seven months since my last blog. It was about my word of the year: expand. It was about allowing expansion into my life, in many ways.
So much has happened since! And boy did expansion come into my life! There’s always room for more, but I just wanna stop and acknowledge the one part of my life that it really has come to fruition: my living situation.
Some of you may know that I had to move because the building I used to live in will be torn down. I knew that at some point I wanted to move out of the city into a bit more peace and nature, but
who knows when I would’ve actually done it if the universe hadn’t given me a gentle push.
It was a big step for me and took quite a bit of courage and a lot of inner and outer work as it is, so doing it without having to would have taken longer, I know that.
I was quite open as to where I would live in my search for the new place. Having a beautiful apartment was more important to me than to stay in the vicinity of Zürich, where prices are often really high. I found a great apartment in a Kanton next to the Kanton of Zürich. (Kanton is like for instance a State in the US.) I didn’t and still don’t know it very well, and I didn’t know the village I now live in at all. So it was a big change.
There is the saying „Be careful what you wish for.“ I don’t like it like this, it sounds like a threat. I would rephrase it into: be aware of what you wish for.
Be aware of it that inviting change into your life will require changes to your life.
Read it again.
What I mean by it is: inviting something new into your life in a bigger way will most likely ask of you to release old things. Literally things, maybe relationships will change or fall away, and mostly, you are going to change.
I feel that by moving I had to leave an old part of myself behind.
A part of me that I had grown very comfortable with and accustomed to, but that I had probably outgrown a while ago. And I realized that some parts of me fell away just by me moving, parts that had not really been my own anymore in the old living situation, but that had just remained there out of habit. That was very odd and at times disconcerting.
Also, talking about expansion: I moved into a larger apartment. I have the same amount of rooms, but it’s more spacious. In the beginning I didn’t know what to do with all that space. The space around my body, the space that I was used to inhabiting was smaller than what is available to me in the new apartment, which was a very weird feeling. I had allow myself to grow into it.
What I am getting at is: let’s dare to dream!
Let’s dare to invite an expansion into our lives – or whatever it is we wish for! And at the same time let’s be aware that this is going to ask of us to release certain things – like the parts of us that up to now didn’t believe in that dream for instance.
What is your dream? What is it you secretly truly wish for would happen/expand in your life?
Becoming aware of it is the first step. Writing it down is the second step. Writing it down will show us already how open we are and where the boundaries are that we set for ourselves.
Which „buts“ show up after we write it down? When we actually see what we truly want on a piece of paper? That’s what I mean: there’s the first thing to release. It will require a bit of inner work. On the other hand: how much joy shows up when you write it down? How good does it feel?
All things to play with!
Here’s to allowing ourselves to dream – while being truly grateful for what we have, too!
Take care! 🩷