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Are You In A Creative Void?

Coping With Spiritual Timing

From Linda Mackenzie, for About.com

Blocked? Frustrated? Know you are doing things right yet there still doesn't seem to be any movement towards getting your goal. Spiritual Timing may be the answer. To determine if Spiritual Timing is the cause of your delay, you must first ask these questions.

Are You:
  • Trying to control the situation?
  • Worrying about what people will think?
  • Confusing happiness with fulfillment of desire?
  • Insisting that your way is the only right way?
  • Rationalizing your situation to maintain your own independence?
  • Living in the past or future and not in the moment?
  • Trying to stop change?
  • Setting up too rigid goals and paths to manifest your goal?
  • Setting up expectations for outcomes?
  • Trying too much or too hard to fulfill your desires?
  • Using the ego to set up significance, projections, feelings or attitudes towards accomplishment of your goal?
If you answered YES, to some or all of these questions, it may be your personal growth that is stopping you from actualizing your goal. To eliminate these obstacles you must work on eliminating negative thought patterns that may be getting in your way.

If you answered NO to all these questions, the next step is to find out if you are in a place that I call the Creative Void. A Creative Void is a time in your life where you are shifting, adapting and getting ready for a major change. It is a spiritual growth time, where like spiritual timing, there is little or no movement. You may or may not know what your next step towards your goal is and you might not even know the goal. You feel and know a shift is about to occur and things around you don't feel exactly right - but nothing seems to be happening. The Creative Void may be a time for information gathering, reflection, sitting still, eliminating things that are no longer necessary in your life. It is the time of spiritual growth and advancement towards balance in your life. To determine if you are in a Creative Void time here are some of the questions to ask yourself.

Do You:
  • Hold on to ideas, methods or things that inhibit your spiritual growth?
  • Need to get rid of attachment to people, places or things?
  • Want to find the missing balance in your life by including time for: Spirituality? Self? Family? Significant Others? Community? Career?
  • Need to let go of negative emotional situations?
  • Have to eliminate sources of fear in your life?
  • Need to make and accept changes in your mind, body or spirit to allow change to flow?
  • Have a need to find your purpose or service in life?
If you answered YES to any or all of these questions, you must honor this time of spiritual growth. Consider these things as opportunities for growth and work on them one-by-one. Always remember that the Creative Void is a time to resolve issues and allow balance to come into your life. It is the time to throw away the old and invite in the new. As issues and balance are resolved in your life, action will manifest and movement will follow.

If you answered NO to all these questions, it may be that Spiritual Timing is at work. continue -->

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