I was in conversation with a client the other day, who’s looking to change career. (I know how this feels – I’ve done it many a time!)
It’s a time of great uncertainty.
Now, you know what sits atop the list of things-a-mind-doesn’t-like?
That’s right: uncertainty.
And you know what a mind does when it’s faced with uncertainty?
That’s right: it makes stuff up. Lots of stuff! In fact, the more uncertainty there is, the more gaps it feels it has to fill, and the more stuff it makes up.
Nightmare.
Now, it’s good to spot the sorts of things it makes up, so you can identify each of them as a work of fiction and not take them too seriously. Here are three, to be going on with:
First thing
The first is that this is all on you. That somehow you’re in control of the process.
You’re really not. The notion of control is a trick of the mind.
Don’t believe me? Well, take any life situation you find yourself in now, and tell me how much control you had in getting there. Family, friendships, tragedies, work situations… you don’t choose any of that stuff. It just happens.
When you’re moving in a particular direction, life, wisdom, the Universe, whatever you want to call it, has cogs that are turning in the background, presenting you with opportunity and help and guidance, in the form of happenstance, friendly guides and intuition.
As Michael Neill puts it, it’s: