“It’s the fear of the unknown that cripples every step we take,” Tyler Joseph.  I think this is part of the problem when it comes to us searching for power.  We don’t know what comes next and our primal brains are still trained that the unknown is dangerous—and it can be on some levels if we enter into something we don’t know enough about-so we want to exert as much control as we can to keep ourselves safe.  We feel it will help us avoid pain, and pain/discomfort have become the new indicator of survival.  Like, our physical being used to be threatened and now a threat to ego or to our comfort is seen as a threat to survival.  We need to know how people feel and what they will do in our lives.  Will they leave us?  Will they be a good partner?  How can we know who will stay forever?  Will we be able to maintain what we envision?  Are we on the right path? 

We are meant to be creative and social beings but we’ve been pitted against each other in a weird competition, thinking there is only so much for everyone.  But we have the capacity to create the life we want and the universe provides the means to do just that because when we create what we are meant to, we share that with the world. Not many of us are trained in how to follow those instincts and bring those ideas to fruition so when we see others doing it or when we manage to do it ourselves, we inspire others to step forward in their light.  Creating what we think we see and living it are two different things because we have to go against the training, against the grain of what we have been taught and forge our own way.  Not seeing the way to go, especially on an unknown path brings up all sorts of fears. Becoming what we feel instead of what we’ve known brings up fears as well.  Shedding what we were and stepping into a new skin takes time because we have indoctrinated that in our lives.  We have to work our way into feeling secure on our path—into trusting.

As contradictory as it sounds, we have to learn that we can trust the unknown because it is known on some level.  We’ve been taught that following the same path as everyone else is safe and we can do it but that conventional way isn’t meant for everyone.  OUR way is what’s meant for us and that path was laid out well in advance of us being here.  All we need to do is take the first step because once we do, there is no stopping it.  It’s inevitable, destined.  We can trust that we will get where we are meant to be even if we don’t know where “there” is.  We will know when we get there.  I just finished Michael J. Fox’s book Always Looking Up and he references this in the end—we often look for the destination, but when we get to that destination there is always the next one.  So we are never really “there” anyway.  We can be content with where we are and take the appropriate steps when they present themselves because we don’t have to fear the unknown—we can trust we received the instinct for a reason.  Take the step.