“Life cycles”, if read as noun + verb is, “Life….cycles.” Meaning that life moves. In circular ways. What’s that about, you ask? I think that two important aspects of life are evoked by the phrase, “Life cycles.”
First, in my work with my coaching clients I often offer the following model in assisting them to accept the vicissitudes of growth on their journey. Picture an ice cream cone (only the cone please, a “sugar” cone)! It’s a three-dimensional spiral shape, going from a point at the bottom to an ever-widening spiral as it ascends. Picture a line down the center of the cone — left side labeled “dark” and right side “light”. This is a model of life’s journey — ever-expanding and ascending but moving into and out of darkness and light (the hard times and the joyful ones). I love the Chinese farmer story (John McMullin tells it so well!) — “Is it good, is it bad, who knows?” Well it’s all good, but not always pretty or easy. I recently watched the new Deepak Chopra movie entitled, How To Know God. My favorite line went something like this — “Anyone who believes in chaos can’t see far enough.”
The other important aspect of “Life cycles” and of the spiral model (or the ice cream cone model!) is the Law of Polarity. We’ve been hearing a lot about the Law of Attraction lately, but what’s the Law of Polarity? It is best said simply — what goes up, comes down. As with the motion of a pendulum, what swings out in one direction, swings equally out in the opposite direction. This physical energetic principle also assists us to understand and embrace the cycles of life, the ebbs and flows of life. It also provides us with a rich and never-ending source of what Abraham (non-physical group of teachers channeled by Esther Hicks) calls “contrast”. This “contrast” is what gives birth to new desires always arising in our lives and the impetus for our powerful co-creations.
The Law of Polarity explains why the recent popularity of the movie The Secret has now spawned a burst of contention about the ideas portrayed in the movie. Many have been especially triggered by the central premise of the Law of Attraction which states that we co-create our lives — that there are no “victims”. People are indeed wrestling with what has become the new paradigm of the New Millennium — that the earth is not flat, or round, it is VIBRATION — and that we literally co-create what we are seeing by the act of looking at something. Also that our thoughts coupled with our feelings eventually manifest the physical reality of that vibration. These conceptions are at the same time hugely empowering (we are Creators) and immensely disturbing (we create both “good” and “bad”).
Rest assured that as “Life cycles” it will both challenge us and calm us — for it is not what unfolds but how we interpret it that is our ultimate reality. In closing, I will offer you three of my favorite phrases of powerful wisdom — “Be easy with yourself.” (Abraham as channeled by Esther Hicks); “Judge not.” (Jesus); and “Be as little children.” (Jesus) Using these will assure that as your “Life cycles”, you will enjoy and appreciate the ride.
