The Known

     At the moment I accept the illusion, it no longer holds me.

     When I ask clients why they think they have failed to make the changes they know they need to make to be happy many of them say that they are afraid of the unknown. Sometimes the familiar, even though uncomfortable, sometimes even painful, is more comforting than the thought of what life may be like of it were different. Somehow, we feel we are in control of our lives just because it seems familiar. But we know life changes in a moment.  We know that when we get that promotion or lose a job, when a child is born or a loved one takes their last breath, it all happens in one moment. How do we convince ourselves that we are standing in the known?
     Add to that the fact that we only see 2000 bits of information per second out of 400 trillion and one must conclude that we are standing, smack dab in the middle of, the unknown. We have no idea what the next moment of life may hold and yet we cling to the illusion of "the known", of control, and why? Because we fear. We fear what the next moment of life may hold so we pretend its not there, the unknown. Or, at least, we hope it doesn't come knocking on our door. But we don't realize that by doing so, we close ourselves off to all the wonder that life can be. It could be opportunity knocking but we're to afraid to answer!Without knowing it, we choose to be content to sit in our illusion of the safe, and seemingly comfortable, known.
    But there is a moment we can choose not to fear and this is the exact moment that we can truly revel in the boundless possibility of all there is. I am only free when I have the clarity to see what is,what's best for me and the evolution of my soul. At the moment I accept the illusion, it no longer hold me.