Growing Capacity For The Up-Level

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Growing Capacity For The Up-level (Change)

July is my birthday month, and it got me thinking about change and crabs (no pun intended 🦀♋) and their own process of change.

Change is the most scary experience for humans, along with death.

I was in my feels, during this change. Realizing what I imagined my life would be today, was not. The people who I thought would be near me or by my side, are not.

Can you tell my sun sign is in Cancer? 😂

I’ve come to believe that we either seek change, or life will make us change for the better or worse (hello rock bottoms, ruts, and dark night of the soul).

When we are in a big shift and transformation (like our Saturn return), it can be rough if we don’t have the skills and support to embody it and thus, transcend.

Today, I’ll share how to expand your capacity for your new up-leveled version, the change, and why it matters.

What you have in common with a crab

In order for a crustacean to grow, it needs to shed its old exoskeleton, called molting, a painful and stressful process.

Even if the process is very excruciating for the crab, their bodies can tolerate it.

After molting, the crab has a new soft shell (making them vulnerable to predators). After the month, the shell hardens and they go on to live their lives.

Just like the crab, we go through our own molting experience. We can experience numbness, lows, bracing, tensity, constriction. The body perceives this as a threat.

Grief can also thrust it self onto us without realizing it. The loss of what was and who we were, can leave us in a period of lows, anger, maybe even bargaining.

We can experience fear of the unfamiliar. How are people going to receive me or perceive me? Can I handle it?

How does this show up in your body now, when you think of a current or past experience of shedding? Just notice and track what happens.