As within, so without. As you reflect the brightness of who you truly are notice how the outside world responds. If you are different your experiences will be different too. Allow the hard work of changing the self to be more present in your life. Express who you truly are, even a little bit more each day, and see what happens. Things do not change if you do not change. You have already proven this. Be a little daring; if you change then things outside of you will change too. Prove that.

Containment leads eventually to explosion. To take advantage of right containment, so that explosion is beneficial and evolutionary rather than destructive, one must know why one contains. Containment must be a conscious process, alchemical in its properties to transform one state into another. This is using containment wisely. Containment that is merely restrictive without the components of change is destructive containment.

Now is a time of change and real change involves containment of old energy and transformation into new energy. If containment is to be useful, go inwardly with couscous intent, certain that the only way forward now is as a changed being. Set about making that change happen by taking inward only that which is beneficial. Conceal the container of self and do the work of the alchemist. Release will happen naturally when the transforming work is done. Conscious intent, knowing that it is a now or never situation, is the first priority to embrace; then act on it. Now or never?

Contemplate your strengths and your weaknesses, yet do not attach to either. Instead consolidate them. Listen for the sound of their perfect balance, like the call of a mourning dove or the trill of a songbird. You will know the sound of your own song when it arrives. Let it sing within you, reverberating within and then without. Tune in to the vibration of this song throughout the day, returning to it whenever you find yourself lost in old thoughts or feelings. Consolidate in the vibration of the true you. This song is your spirit’s call.

Each day is new. Each day arises as an opportunity to do life differently, to create anew. Reflect deeply on what a new life and a new you means. Resolve old issues completely so that each day a little newness may be given life. Envision and then actively create the life you dream of, one day at a time. You are your own birth mother and your own birth father in this most creative act. Take your time to get it right without begin a harsh mother or a stern father, but in a most generous and loving manner set about your mission of change. As within, so without. From deep within begin the process of giving birth to a new you and a new life.

Our thoughts create our reality. Our thoughts that we are bad, incapable, unloveable, stupid or undesirable leave us stuck at the gate of fuller life. To enter the gate we must give up our futile thoughts and embrace all that we are, even our bedevilments, negative though we may perceive them as. In order to create a new reality we must accept all that we are, turning our negative thoughts into nonjudgmental embracing of our vulnerable innocence. We must allow all that we are into the balance of our lives, without excess or denial, without being overcome or neglectful. To be whole we must accept that we are human animals on a mission to become human spirits. To become whole we must love both our animal selves and our spirit selves. This is the work of the creative/creator self. Doing this work is to step through the gate into new life.