Embracing Change

My friends and I have noticed we're all in the same boat lately when it comes to changing our environment -- that and those which we surround ourselves with on a daily basis. I found it so appropriate that a major part of The Kabbalah Centre's study of the Zohar for January 2007 illuminates this topic.

According the Zohar, this month is a time of embracing change and moving to the next step, the next chapter. This always involves some sort of risk, but what kind of risks are we supposed to take? The Zohar tells us we already know the answer to these questions thanks to our God given sense of Intuition.

I'm capitalizing that, Intuition, because I believe that is God working from within each of us. We already know what uncomfortable situations are going to help us to grow and which ones are going to stagnate that process.

Kabbalah teaches us that the more difficult road is almost always the one we should be on -- but what if both roads seem equally difficult and could help us to grow, right?

"Well, it would be a risk to stick with my partner or my friend even though this person is destructive or abusive and brings chaos into my life. But it would also be a risk to leave them. Which is the right risk to take?"

That seems like a silly question to anyone outside of the situation, doesn't it? We know the answer and so does their Intuition. Intuition isn't blinded by circumstance. It isn't blinded by lust. It isn't blinded by fatigue.

This month is about change and a lot of times for change to occur from within, we must change our environment and this unfortunately sometimes includes the people in our lives. When we surround ourselves with people of less consciousness, people that don't care about sharing with others, people who are unable to behave selflessly, people with pessimistic or negative outlooks -- you ignite those seeds within yourself.

Even a person who cares nothing about money or materialism can suddenly find himself balancing a check book on a daily basis if the only people he hangs out with are accountants.

Ancient Kabbalist Rav Ashlag said, "95% of free choice is choosing your surroundings and your environment." This is an extremely important lesson to learn.

And, of course this does NOT by any means suggest that we extract all people from our lives of lesser consciousness, all people who seem in a slump or even have more flaws than most. That's not a very "giving" attitude at all, is it?

So how do we know? How do we know when we can bring something to those people's lives without letting them drain us of our energy or consistently affect us for the worse?

Intuition. We know. If you are in a situation like this, it probably just told you.

And to not act on that gut instinct, that sixth sense, is to take God for granted.

"But staying with this person, staying with this career, staying in this place -- it will keep testing me too, won't it? And that's what it's all about right? Being tested and learning."

Sure, many tests are great! But if we're tested ALL of the time, we'd never have a chance to put what we learned from those tests to use, would we? Sometimes the test is to say goodbye and move forward, making room for more personal growth.

We are going beyond our comfort zones this month. Now is a time for starting from scratch in various areas of our lives. And what's most exciting about the energy available this month is that if we take those steps, whatever we decide to paint on that new empty canvas is going to be more beautiful than the one before.

We know this in our hearts to be true.


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