Growth comes from taking risks and making changes. Staying more or less permanently in one’s comfort zone makes it a “coffin zone”. I don’t want parts of me to become so deadened into routines and patterns that nothing ever shifts, as I slide inexorably into various levels of death. I try to keep swinging at something currently out of my reach, in order to continually infuse my life with vitality.

Transformation is possible, but not without major growth at all levels of our being. My path for the past fifteen years been one of constant change. I needed the stability of routines and known courses until I was thirty in order to have a “launching pad”, and to see that the path I walked in those years is no longer my right path. I had to experience what I didn’t want in order to know for sure what I did want. I thank my parents for giving me the gift of a baseline level of stability for those first two-plus decades so that I could build the courage to make many eventual changes, not having burned out on changing constantly in childhood. Parts of me would like more comfort and stability now, but finding the right balance between comfort/stability and change can take time to fully manifest. There is nothing inherently wrong with comfort and stability as long as risky choices and refusal to compromise one’s deepest desires are added to the mix.

Only you can know the changes you need to make. If you desire greater fulfillment you could ask your “deeper” or higher self to bring you visions of what your secret desires are, hidden from your conscious awareness. If you do get visions emanating from your buried desires, I wish for you the courage to reach for and manifest them.

‘Chakra’ is sanskrit for ‘wheel’. We all have seven major energy centers or chakras, vortices or wheels of energy located at key points from the tops of our heads to the bases of our spines. When a vision comes, it may come from one of two directions; descending from your topmost chakra at the crown of your head – or beginning deep in your root chakra and rising up towards your upper chakras. If it “grabs” you, it will pass through your heart chakra, the midpoint, where you will notice whether you love the vision or not. If you do love it, and want to give it life, it will travel on towards the remainder of your chakras to ground and manifest. In the process, it will run smack dab into your judgments and fears of why it can’t happen, couldn’t possibly come true, all the reasons it is not a viable vision for you, etc.

We all have imbalances in various of our chakras. These blocks/imbalances make manifestations come out differently than we envisioned them. The imbalances stem from chronically repressing our emotional responses to various triggers, as well as being physical manifestations of denial such as ongoing addictive behaviours.

You may encounter frustration and fear as well as various other physical and emotional obstacles around making your visions come true, and perhaps find heartbreak that they haven’t happened already. You can allow those feelings to express to the best of your ability and acceptance, so that your beloved visions can manifest in all the ways you originally pictured them. In doing so, you’ll be joining the healing and dealing tide rising on every shore of the planet.