By Lady Saoirse
Bright Blessings,
I just had a conversation with a new friend and it struck me. She was talking about how much her life has changed over the years. She faced the risk of blindness last month but it was averted with a quick surgery. She used to work out at the gym 2 to 3 hours a day but she can’t do that anymore because of autoimmune issues. She used to have a lot of energy to go and do things but she can’t do that anymore because of the fatigue that she endures. She used to work an office job full-time, driving herself to and from work. Now she conserves her energy by working from home and her job only requires her to come into the office once a week. She also traveled extensively in her younger years but she can’t do that anymore because her energy is fleeting and due to chronic pain, she has to sleep in her own bed.
Some people would say that her story is sad but I see her for what she really is. Powerful. When we talk about overcoming adversity and problems, a lot of people assume it means that we make the problems go away with the flick of our wrist. However, like my friend shows, the real way to overcome problems is to adapt and continue to thrive despite them. That doesn’t mean that they go away and it doesn’t mean that they don’t affect us. It just means that we find new ways of being and work around our problems so that we can continue.
I have spoken with people who pretend that they can do whatever they want to without limitations and they all have one thing in common. They have never experienced true limitations and they have no idea what they’re talking about. I remember when I had that mindset too. I was young, healthy, had no chronic pain, and had not gone through major suffering as an adult. Then, life happened. Multiple things happened to my health and to my body and proved to me that I could not fly, walk on water, survive without medicine, nourishment, or sleep, and I couldn’t do everything all on my own. Like my friend, I made changes to the way that I do things. It’s powerful magic.
Being inflexible and expecting the world to change to suit me would be setting myself up to fail. As I lost more hearing, I had to change the type of things I did for a living. I can’t be on the phone all day anymore. As I lost the ability to drive, I couldn’t just jump in the car and go wherever the hell I wanted. I have to plan my trips now and traveling for fun doesn’t happen anymore at all. There have been times when I was too sick to even leave the house. Now I can leave the house everyday. The number one thing I had to change was reaching out to ask for help and then accepting help when it was given. Like my friend, my priority is living a good life, not bragging that I refuse to be adaptable.
Can you do that? Or are you someone that can only do things one way and if you can’t have your way, you’ll have things no way at all? Are you so hell bent on imposing your will on the rest of the world that you can’t humble yourself to the point of harmonizing with the way that things are? Is it so difficult for you to make a change that you flat out won’t do it? If so, you have become a very weak person, and that’s a choice. We were not designed to do all the same things in the same way over and over from birth until death. Our minds are designed to be stimulated by new experiences and challenged by new information. We were born to grow. That’s magic.
It’s understandable to struggle where there is a change but don’t do yourself the disservice of fighting change so hard that you cripple yourself. Be like my friend and rest a little more when you need to. Adapt and take a different job when the one you have doesn’t accommodate your lifestyle. Change the way that you eat to improve your health. Most of all, beyond making physical changes, be open to adapting your mind. It is impossible to learn everything all at once and we are presented with new opportunities to grow spiritually and intellectually all the time. We are presented with opportunities to grow emotionally too. Soak that all up like a sunflower soaks up water and sunlight and bloom just as beautifully.
No matter how far along you are on your magical path, you will live for many more lives and make a lot more magic. Open yourself to new things, new people, new mindsets, and yes give up things that you love when you have to so that you can get by. A year ago your life was entirely different. A year from now it will be different too. Change comes whether we want it to or not and we either grow with the changes or get left behind. Harmonize with the way that things are and grow. Let your magic thrive by adapting.
Blessed Be.
Want to join the conversation about this blog post? Go to the Green Egg Forum and scroll for the forum post that relates to this article: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1069823176940972
Lady Saoirse has studied magic and lore for most of her life but started walking her own magical path after being spiritually reborn in the desert. Today she is a High Priestess for The Temple of the Goddess, she is a psychic advisor and spiritual counselor who teaches and does Sabbats in her hometown, and she shares her gifts as a Psychic and Content Writer for SpiritualBlossom and Mysticsense and she writes for PaganPages.Org emag.