“What the external structures I relied on before and the controlling mind are gone, what is left to hold onto?”  Ashmi Pathela. This is about addressing the fear of being able to do it, taking the leap.  This is the realization that we put structures in place to give the illusion of control and that those structures ended up controlling us.  It’s also realizing that we can break free of it.  We receive these messages and nudges from the universe that what we are doing isn’t working and yet we continue doing the same thing daily because we are familiar with it.  We don’t take the step forward into the unknown because we don’t trust that we will be safe in uncharted territory.  We aren’t sure that we are able to sustain ourselves in a new found environment, having to do new things.  Here’s the secret: we only learn to fly when we jump off the branch.

Everyone face plants every now and then.  We think we see a way and we take our shot only to end up on the ground.  I know I was one of those people who stopped trying once I hit the ground the first time.  We can’t expect that we get everything right on the first time out.  We must continue and find new ways of doing things and know that we were given the gifts we have because we are meant to do something with it, to make something of it, and share it with the world.  We have to trust that the gifts we have are meant to sustain us, even if it isn’t in the conventional way.  There is always fear in the unknown but we learn to take those leaps because the calling of what we are meant to do is greater than the calling to follow what we’ve been told to do.  There are many ways to survive in this world and we are here to innovate and create, not continue to be copies of what came before us.

No existing structure is going to allow the flexibility and freedom to evolve into something new unless we bring our uniqueness to it.  The existing framework is not built for ideas that come from outside of the constraints we currently experience.  We must go back to basics and learn to build our own foundations.  We aren’t meant to control this world, we are of this world, and that means the structures that served previously are meant to evolve into something that works for us, not something that holds us back.  Times change and we are forging the way.  This is the new frontier so to speak, and we are all working on finding our wings.  Trust our ability to fly over the strength of the branch and we get a new vantage point.  Step past the fear and fly.