Malcolm Gladwell coined the phrase “the tipping point” in reference to social change, where an idea, belief or product gains enough momentum to spread throughout the national consciousness. We can use the same phrase to talk about change on our spiritual journey.
We reach a tipping point at several key places on our own personal healing journey. After each tipping point, our lives open up and blossom:
· when we decide to let go of the hurts and wrongs of the past and forgive
· when we choose to stop blaming, judging and criticizing ourselves and begin extending the energies of gentleness, kindness and love to ourselves
· when we decide the discomfort and stretching that come with change are more welcome than the familiar pain of our current situation
· when we choose love, not fear
· whenever we speak our truth in the moment instead of swallowing it
· when we let go of the heavy energy of the past and let it move through us and release
· when we realize the pain involved in holding onto a pattern or a habit will be more uncomfortable than accepting responsibility for healing
· when we decide we are worthy of all the good stuff in life – healthy relationships, abundance, health, joy, etc.
Several clues tell us when we’re nearing a spiritual tipping point. We may start to feel tense and edgy or out of sorts. We may have a growing intuitive awareness that change is coming. We may experience heightened dreamtime messages. We may catch ourselves thinking or even saying to a friend, “Something’s got to change.”
When these feelings arise, be with them. Bring awareness to what is uncomfortable or no longer working in your life. Then make the change. Allow Spirit to support you. An old spiritual adage comes to mind: “Leap and the net will appear.”
In saying yes to our spiritual change, we say yes to ourselves and yes to Spirit. In allowing ourselves to reach our tipping point, we enter an amazing time of growth and learning and a whole new world of possibilities opens up to us.
Where are you reaching a tipping point in your life?