21 MARCH 2019 — NEW BEGINNINGS? AGAIN?

Barbara Thorne: The Point of Power is Now

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Mar 21, 2019

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Yesterday was the Spring Equinox = the moment when Winter ends and Spring begins. The time of the year when we can ‘SPRING’ forward into the NEW.

New ways of viewing the world and ourselves perhaps? New ways of acting and responding? Taking the plunge to do something we have always wished to do but never got around to doing for whatever reason.

However, spring equinox or not, leaving the old behind is never an easy task. This is because we carry around with us the weight of our rational chattering minds which tend to go over and over the same old thoughts driven by the same old fears and plump for the safe and known. For some people parachuting out of aeroplanes, or canoeing through rapids have become safe and known.

For others talking to or smiling at strangers might be a new way of springing into the new.

PONDER POINTS — For me the old and familiar and therefore ‘safe’ ways of being are/things I find daunting are/what I fear is/the ways I can step into the new are/what I need to embrace now is