Are you Ready for it?

We all ask for things in life.  You put an intention or a prayer out to the universe for what you want.  Usually it is something that you currently don’t have or something that you would like to be different.  Something that you long for.  But when you ask for something, when you put out an intention to the universe of what you want you also must prepare yourself to receive it.  Are you prepared to receive what the universe sends to you?  Are you prepared to accept it in the package it arrives in?  Have you opened your mind and heart to all the possibilities?  That’s a question most people don’t think about.  We say: “of course if I ask for a new relationship with a person that has all these qualities I would be thrilled if they showed up.”  “Of course if I asked for a better job that offered me the pay I am looking for I would take it in a heartbeat! “

But what if that job showed up in a field you were not expecting or in another city?  or what if that person showed up for you and they were unconventional or had different viewpoints than you were used to?  It would feel uncomfortable.  It would feel foreign.  It is not what we are used to.  We say:  “Is this what I asked for?”  Of course something new and different is going to feel a bit uncomfortable.  A new pair of shoes are not as comfortable as your well-worn sneakers with the hole in the side.   But you didn’t ask for another pair of well-worn sneakers.  You have outgrown those and are longing for and needing something different in your life.  You asked for what you wanted and as uncomfortable as it feels when you receive it, you must trust and have faith that the universe has sent you exactly what you need to grow and move forward.

Unfortunately what often happens is that we see this gift, this new opportunity in our life and it is so different that it scares us, so we try to change it so that it looks familiar to us…less scary.  We try to make it more comfortable, what we’re used to. We try to control it.  But control is just an illusion.  It would be like receiving a beautiful bouquet of yellow roses after always getting red ones and being so uncomfortable with the change that you spray paint the roses red to make them look like what you are used to seeing.  Of course it kills the roses.  Likewise, if you reject a gift, an opportunity or try to change it into something that it is not, you are essentially killing the opportunity that is before you, the opportunity that you asked for.  The gift that you have been graced with.

When you ask for something different in your life, don’t expect it to arrive in the same packaging that you are used to.  Don’t expect it to look, feel or move the same way as you are used to.  Don’t expect it to be comfortable.  Prepare yourself.  Make yourself open to whatever appears for you.  You asked for something different, something not familiar.  It will take some adjustment. It will take an open mind. But accepting that discomfort provides you the opportunity for growth and change.  The opportunity to move into a different space within yourself and within the world as you know it.

Prepare and you will be open to receiving amazing gifts that you could not have even conceived of.  Close yourself off and you may end up losing in the end that which you prayed for in the beginning.  I have seen it, and I have lived it.

 

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