Take a Risk
Your Higher Self wishes you to know that you are ready for spiritual mastery.
You are being asked to look at how you self-regulate your energy and how this relates to taking risks. Too much regulation of your energy prevents you from opening up to connecting with others (in love); too little regulation means the risks you take make you vulnerable to loss.
You are ready to implement a new way of being. It is time to take a risk. Risk is a muscle that if developed over many years becomes a skill of man-agement, aligning preparation and expectations with actual outcomes. Risk is best taken when the five factors for success, outlined below, are in place:
- Knowledge – How much do I know? Do I know enough?
- Opportunity – Are doors open to me? Do I know the right people (who can help)?
- Timing – Is this the right time of my life? Is this the right time for this venture?
- Finances – Am I financially stable? Can this venture be supported with ease (if applicable)?
- Experience – Have I done this before?
The hierarchy of needs provide a guideline to ideal conditions for any project to flourish. If you apply these factors to any undertaking it will enable you to manage your outcomes. Whether you are writing a book or starting a new relationship you first must determine what you need to make your project flower. If you started a new business on an unstable financial basis then the lack of money will show up when you are paying bills and salaries. This can be the limiting factor in the business’s growth. It becomes the factor you try to manage. Your effort will focus solely on your lack of money and this will determine what you learn about business. It is the same with relationships; if there is something missing for you it will become your focus. Risk is an emotional muscle that is trained to expand. When each factor in the hierarchy of needs is in place, what feels like a risk is really a measured step based on what has been before. You regulate the pace of your own journey because you understand the journey. If you take a very large step without the smaller steps of experience to pave the way, you step out of your comfort zone and into unknown territory. If you are uncomfortable with the step you are taking apply the hierarchy of needs to determine where your knowledge is incomplete and then apply the appropriate resources. Don’t make the common mistake of panicking and giving the job to someone else at this point. Become familiar enough with the area to trust in yourself, that you will make the right decisions.
In exploring risk you may identify that someone else (instead of you) is regulating the pace of your journey. You have in place all the right conditions for your new relationship or project. Ask the question, ‘Who is regulating the pace of this journey?’ Whoever it is will determine the outcome. For instance, let’s say you planted a seed and then gave the job of watering and feeding the plant to your five-year-old daughter. The plant’s growth and well-being is dependent on your daughter not you. If your daughter does not make watering the plant a priority, it won’t matter that you had the money to buy the seed, planted it at the right time and had a lot of knowledge and experience in the nurturing of plants. Your daughter’s negligence will doom the flower’s growth. When you regulate the pace of a project, what seems like a risk is more like managing a new boundary line.
In approaching these new boundaries, your fear of risk has identified a hidden set of rules you live by – hidden rules set by your parents, caregivers or traumatic events. Throughout childhood your parents were the station-master, signalman and linesman on the train track. They regulated your life for your protection and safety. They also regulated you in order to suit themselves, fulfilling their needs rather than yours. You would stop, go, run fast or slow, change train tracks according to their rules. With maturity these parental rules on how to go fast or slow are adapted to suit your ability.
In your case, however, this didn’t happen. The rules of past events are still regulating your life. You are playing life by your mum and dad’s rules on what is or isn’t allowed to happen, going too fast or slow for your own comfort based on their measure. Your fear is due to an inner struggle between the old rules and new rules that you want to implement.
To throw out the old rulebook and develop the confidence to take risks you must understand the rules of self-mastery, which are based simply on say-ing either ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Both words regulate the flow of your energy. Saying ‘yes’ opens doors, invites new opportunities and people. Saying ‘no’ might close a door to open another and create change from one path to another. On a day to day level you are always self-regulating by saying ‘yes’ to exercise and ‘no’ to extra portions of food; ‘no’ to spending and ‘yes’ to saving money; saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to family or friends popping in for a visit; saying ‘yes’ I will employ someone to help out with this project or ‘no’ I don’t want help.
Mastery of your energy comes from understanding how to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on your own terms. Unless the rules you live by are completely your own, you can’t supply the right motivation to take action. Instead of manag-ing your energy you enforce rules (that are not your own). You police your new gym program, diet plan, or current projects. Eventually they fall away as you are exhausted by the effort it takes. It’s time to manage your own life. Take the risk and live by your values, your rules to create your life.
