Finding Courage to Navigate Change
Pocket Ranch Institute News
Dear Friends,
Spring is here at PRI, bursting with changes on all levels. Many people fear change and yet everything in the universe is constantly ebbing and flowing, like a river. Consider the opposite: stagnation, rigidity, stuckness. Any healthy system, individual or organization, is fluid. Because change is associated with loss and threat, we tend to want to cling and hold onto old forms.
The tragedy for me is that we have so little trust and knowledge on how to navigate the currents and rapids we are encountering. We do have choices about how we perceive and deal with our lives. We can decide to cling to the riverbank, perhaps kicking and screaming against life, or we can allow ourselves to ride the current, taking us to new and exciting places.
The world is clearly going through a period of transformation. It’s a time of opportunity to grow and create more humane ways of living together. We’ve seen some exciting new shifts lately: the recent Bill Moyer’s series on Mind/Body Healing, the National Institute of Health has formed a department for Alternative Medicine with a Native American as the director, and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology has been asked to establish the first transpersonal degree program in Russia.
Pocket Ranch has been a part of this growing transformation for six and a half years. We are demonstrating and learning ways to empower the lives of those who come here. It has been a continuing lesson for me in trusting the flow and discovering easier and more effective ways to explore the possibilities. So many wonderful, touching, difficult and humorous experiences have been part of the journey. Best of all, I have met so many people who have helped in some way. Maybe it’s all one journey and one river we are navigating.
I hope that wherever you are, you are finding the courage, faith and companions to learn to trust and navigate more easily. Bless you and have a glorious, blooming and growing spring. Don’t forget to enjoy the flowers on the riverbank.
Lovingly,
Barbara
